Australian Photography October 2022

Most in the photographic community in Australia will have heard of the death of Tim Page in August. Without a doubt, Tim was one of our greatest ever photographers, and famous for getting so close to the action in Vietnam he seldom used a long lens. You can read our obituary to him on page 14, but if you’re not familiar with his work, you’ll soon see he had an almost telepathic ability to identify the decisive moment, over and over again. As a result, he captured thousands of fantastic images over his lifetime with, at last count, more than 750,000 in his archive in NSW. The other notable news recently was the death of Graham Burstow OAM at the grand age of 96. Respected for both his services to the…

STEVE AND ANN TOON Ann and Steve Toon are a UK-based, husband and wife team of award-winning, professional photographers with a specialist interest in the wildlife and wild places of southern Africa. See more of their work at toonwildlife.com MITCH GREEN Mitch Green is a Sydneybased travel and landscape photographer. He can be found at mitchgreenphotos.com, or down by the beach at 5am waiting for sunrise. You can also find him on Instagram @mitchgreenphotos TIM LEVY Tim Levy is an award winning Sydney based freelance photographer specialising in events and portraits. See more of his work at levy.photo and theprint.network ANTHONY MCKEE A regular contributor to AP for more than a decade, Melbourne’s Anthony McKee was named AIPP documentary photographer of the year in 2014. See more at anthonymckee.com.au…

It’s been said that if every scientist who had visited Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea over the past 50 years had brought with them a bucket of water, then the sea would be full once again. But it isn’t. Most of the sea is now dry, with the rest of the water continuing its slow retreat each year. What remains is a few rusty ships and a reminder of what humans can do to an environment if left unchecked. Once the world’s largest inland sea spread across the Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan borders, today, the Aral is just a puddle compared to what it once was. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union launched a large scale project to divert the main sources of the Aral’s inflowing water, the Syr Darya river in the north…

WINNERS’ CROWNED IN AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR A CONFRONTING photograph of a humpback whale carcass and circling sharks on the ocean floor in Coral Bay, Western Australia has won the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition for 2022. Nature’s Prey by Ashlee Jansen captures a harsh act of Mother Nature, but an important part of the natural ecosystem. Based in Western Australia, Ms Jansen captured her winning shot in July 2021 after a sub-adult whale died while making the annual migration north along the Ningaloo Reef. “Tour boats had been watching the young whale for days as it slowly moved through the bay, appearing sicker and slower with more shark bites over its body day after day,” Jansen recalled. “Friends had spotted an oil slick on the surface caused by…

MARK COGHILL Untitled EDITOR’S COMMENT It’s not easy to photograph something differently we’ve all seen more times than I’ve had hot meals, but that’s something Mark Coghill has done here with dramatic results. “I recently visited Paris for a couple days with no plans other than to see the city I last visited 40 years ago,” he writes. “Without a photography plan I arrive at the Eiffel Tower when the sun glare was at its worst. But then I realised I had a chance to get a different image of this icon by altering the exposure to darken the background, which I then enhanced in Lightroom.” This is an interesting, graphic image with a clever incorporation of the month’s theme. I like how you’ve crunched the blacks to draw all the attention to that iconic…

YOUR BEST SHOT IS OPEN TO AP SUBSCRIBERS AND APS MEMBERS. TO ENTER AN IMAGE IN THE COMP, CHECK THE COMPETITION THEMES AND INSTRUCTIONS BELOW AND EMAIL YOUR BEST IMAGE TO YOURBESTSHOT@AUSTRALIANPHOTOGRAPHY.COM UPCOMING COMPETITION THEMES DECEMBER ISSUE FOG 30 September 2022 FEBRUARY ISSUE SPEED 24 November 2022 APRIL ISSUE INDOORS 31 January 2023 JUNE ISSUE MANIPULATION 31 March 2023 AUGUST ISSUE RAIN 31 May 2023 YOUR ENTRY 1. Email your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com with the name of the competition theme in the email subject line, for example: Weather, Abstract, Landscape, etc. 2. The image file must be the same as your name, for example Jane Smith.jpg. If you enter multiple images, each new image file name should be appended with a unique number, eg Jane Smith2.jpg 3. A maximum of three images can be entered per person. 4. Images must be in JPEG format. 5. Email file size must not exceed 7MB. 6.…