Wednesday, 25 February Towards the end of last year I had pretty well made up my mind that enough was enough and photographing little children would not be my main stay of employment in 2004. In the long break that took in November and December of last year until now, I did the occasional wedding and a few other photographic jobs including formals and a large university graduation. Yesterday I drove from Melbourne to Portland and spent what was left of the afternoon resting in the motel room with the Discovery Channel playing on TV. It also gave me an opportunity [View Full Entry]

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24 October 2003 I'm sitting in a Budget Motel in the town of Morwell. Below us, lies one of the largest deposits of the brown coal in the world. The ore is taken from large open cut mines not far from the town. It is then processed and used to feed the furnaces that in turn keep the generators working. In most directions from my motel you can see plumes of clouds produced from the steam that feed the generators. In the evenings at sunset the clouds turn pink and give a surreal effect to the town. I haven't photographed anything [View Full Entry]

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12 October 2003 My journey to Bendigo gave me one more chance to get shots of scenes of interest along the way and as I write in this journal another twenty shots are stored on the cameras memory card. Just around the corner from the Budget Motel is a pub that sells great meals and Kangaroo was on the menu tonight and it was cooked to perfection. 13-14 October 2003 Two days at the same centre and both days were busy but the teacher who was in charge was very good to work with and by time the children were ready [View Full Entry]

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7 October 2003 I’m now the proud owner of one of the best digital cameras produced by Canon. I left Melbourne via the Caulder Highway and drove to Castlemain. Along the way I stopped a few times to try out the EOS-10D. I have been this way many times and in the past have promised myself that I should take shots of the countryside. It was a good excuse to try all the settings on the camera. After a few hours I diverted from the Caulder Highway when I saw the sign to Castlemaine and drove into town and started looking [View Full Entry]

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21 September 2003 It wasn’t until today that work took me out of Victoria again. I wanted to travel to Griffith by a different route and noticed on my map a straight stretch of road between Benalla and Cobram which I had not travelled on before. First the roads I drove on were the familiar Goulbourn Valley Highway out of Yea and the Midland Highway that took me into Benalla. About ten kilometres out of that town the road branches to the north. The landscape is fairly flat in this area and farmers have taken advantage of the green pastures, running [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, 23 August 2003 Slept well last night, woke up around seven o'clock. I'm still in Temora, as I will be until next Friday when I hope to complete a successful week working in a centre here in town. I didn't want to waste the day, so decided to travel via back roads to Glenfell some one hundred kilometres north east of Temora. It was around ten-thirty when I started the car and drove out of town along the Young Road. Not far along the way I came across a sign indicating Glenfell. This road past very flat farming country, sheep [View Full Entry]

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19 August 2003 It was an eight-hour drive to Bundanoon and the weather was fine. I had worked in this pre-school last year and actually asked to make this return visit. Twenty children, all the right age to get good images. The staff ticked off names and let me move the children when I wanted to photograph them doing something different. All this cooperation added up to an enjoyable mornings work. Two hours after setting up, I had exposed six spools of film that needed to be trimmed when I got back to my unit. In the afternoon I drove sixteen [View Full Entry]

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4 August 2003 I spent today driving through western Victoria. Down the Geelong Freeway, onto the Princes Highway, then through Colac and Camperdown, both towns I have worked in before. Near Terang I turned north, heading to Mortlake. There the road joins the Hamilton Highway. It was along this stretch that I stopped for the first time when I saw an abandoned homestead and got the camera out for some shots. I stopped again near the town of Hamilton this time to photograph a small stand of trees in the middle of a paddock. Six hours after leaving Melbourne I arrived [View Full Entry]

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31 July 2003 After a seven hour drive last Tuesday I arrived at my pre-booked accommodation in Griffith. I have settled into this Budget motel and although it isn't as comfortable as the motel I usually stay in, it does serve good meals. I have been having both breakfast and my evening meals delivered to my unit, Which has saved me an evening trip to the local club. I was surprised to find it was right next door to the Pre-School that I enjoyed working in just a few months ago. It has been cold in the mornings and I have [View Full Entry]

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20 July 2003 It was eleven-thirty in the morning and time to leave for my trip to Wodonga. I have been to this town, which lies just south of the border between New South Wales and Victoria. I usually stay at a Best Western motel. This time the company had booked accommodation in a Budget motel. I have stayed in many establishments since I started with this company, way back in March 1999 and must say I don't usually get upset if the rooms are pretty basic but that often occurs when there is no choice of a better motel in [View Full Entry]

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