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Author:sengmah

17/10/2010 In photoart By sengmah

Tasmanian Lens Scapes

Tasmania, the Apple Isle, the oft-forgotten Australian State, boasts beautiful vistas. Its peaks, valleys and wilderness immortalised by legendary landscape photographer Peter Dombrovskis, Tassie provides photographic opportunities aplenty, making it often more challenging to decide what NOT to photograph. On a recent trip to Tasmania, I became...

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16/09/2010 In Editorial By sengmah

Jett and Lina: A Love Story

The Story of Jett and Lina is an example of narrative building through photographs. Inspired by sequential art (comic books), this is part portrait-shoot and part grim love story, where the tables are turned on a predatory young male. Location: Yellagonga Park, Woodvale Participants: Matt Goyder and...

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16/09/2010 In Events By sengmah

Vegetables WA Biannual Dinner 2010

Venture Photography covered the biannual Vegetables WA Dinner at the Joondalup Resort’s Lakeside Room in September.  Vegetables WA is the State’s peak  organisation supporting WA vegetables growers. This formal dinner was an opportunity to recognise the important contribution WA vegetable growers...

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12/09/2010 In Books, Projects, Venture Blog By sengmah

Flags up! Gun’s up! In!

I've just finished putting the first cut of the Gun's Up! book together. There is still much to be done: the photographs need to be proofed before the first proof of the book is even published (by eCPrint in Rockingham), but this is a major...

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22/08/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Finding creativity

One of the tougher challenges photographers face is a creative slump. No matter how much you love photography, how passionate you are about it, you're going to reach a stage where nothing, excuse the pun, clicks. Photography is no different to every other form of creative...

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19/08/2010 In Exhibitions, photoart, Travel By sengmah

Sons of Ganga

In Varanasi, the ancient city on the banks of the Ganges, the river is an intrinsic part of spiritual life for Hindus – she is Ganga, the mother goddess. Bathing in the Mother allows one to wash away the sins of lifetimes....

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30/07/2010 In Photo Tips, Venture Blog By sengmah

Seeing the street

Street photography is an art of its own. It requires that the photographer be able to unfamiliarise the familiar, to make the everyday uncommon and unique. It requires eagle eyes and lightning reflexes. I work in Fremantle and am as familiar with it as, well, the...

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22/07/2010 In Venture Blog By sengmah

Powering your photography with Facebook

Facebook announced today that it had reached 500 million active users. 500 million individuals who are using Facebook for networking, social transaction, information sharing, community building and marketing. As a practicing photographer or photomedia artist, how can you not avail yourself of a slice of this...

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