Travel Photography – John Weeks Photography

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LEADING LINES COMPETITION

I was delighted to win 2 ‘Commended Award’ [‘Long Train’ & ‘To The Centre’] & 1 ‘Highly Commended Award’ [‘The Pivotal Point’] for my photos that were judged at the Hills Photographic Society meeting on 20th October 2022. The theme of the competition was ‘Leading Lines’.

‘The Long Train’ – Commended Award

‘To The Centre’ – Commended Award

‘The Pivotal Point’ – Highly Commended

TODAY’S PHOTO – Sunday 30 October 2022

‘Rainbow Lorikeet Versus King Parrot’

‘Showdown’ … I snapped this photo this morning at my home in Belgrave (Victoria, Australia).

Current Social Media Feedback:

Janette G. > John, my favourite ?
Ju L. > Great shot.
Carmel H. > What a beauty!!
Alan B. > What a great picture!!
Jeanette W. > Stunning
Frances C. > Hooooo
Pamela G. > Yes I often have these fights of 2 but up to 8 at times on my balcony. Then there are the magpies and the cockatoos, all fighting for the food I put out. My Schnoodle loves watching the skirmish. 🤨🐶🐾👏👏👏👏👏
Bobbie W. > Fantastic shot
Lyn J. > Gorgeous ❤️❤️
Ian R. W. > Beautiful
Rosemary D. > I think they mean business.
Maree H. > Another fabulous action shot.
Emma G. > Love your pictures John, you should do a bird calendar ❤️
Helen D. > Precious
Joy C. > The Lorikeets are the Boss.
Kim B. > Very well taken
Christine E. > Great photography!
Steve H. > High noon. Beaks at 3 paces!
Dennis C. > Who was the winner?

MOOMBA PARADE 1980

Who remembers The Sullivans, an Australian period drama television series produced by Crawford Productions, which ran on the Nine Network in Australia from 1976 until 1983? Cast members of the TV series appeared in the Moomba Parade in Melbourne in 1980. I was there and these are the photos I snapped on the day.

Actor, Michael Caton, Moomba Parade, Melbourne

Actor, Paul Cronin, Moomba King, Moomba Parade, Melbourne

Actor, Steven Tandy, Moomba King, Melbourne

Actor, Richard Morgan, Moomba Parade, Melbourne

The above photos is part of my ‘Negatives to Digital Project’ that I am currently working on.

OLD CAMERAS

Part 9: Zeiss Ikon, 1961

‘Zeiss Ikon Contaflex’ – 1961

BUG PHOTOGRAPHY

‘Ladybug’

FINALLY

I love all aspects about photography hence this Newsletter. I wish to share things that I enjoy about this medium. If you like what you have read, please subscribe to receive future Newsletters 🙂 Comments are also nice to receive.

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John Weeks
Australia
johnweekstraveller@gmail.com

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FLORA PHOTOGRAPHY

The photo below is a recent pic I had snapped at my garden in Belgrave (Belgrave, Australia)

As always, I am very grateful for the comments I had received on social media.

Comments:

Liz F. > Stunning 💜💜💜
Ian W. > Beautiful
Judith L. > Stunning colour John
Colin P. > So vivid colour…what is it?
Rosemary D. > It’s a cornflower. I planted some in Autumn, so come Spring I can take photos.
Christine U. > Beautiful flower, thanks for sharing John.
Lyn C. > Beautiful John, such a lovely colour.
Clare R. > Stunning
Margaret W. > That’s so pretty
Jenny H. > Beautiful shot

Here are two photos that I had snapped in the past:

PUFFING BILLY, TRAIN OF LIGHTS

Photographer, Kathie Thomas and I had been invited by Puffing Billy to photograph their dress rehearsal night for their Train of Lights event (to be active during the school holidays, June/July. It was a volunteers only night.
I travelled on the train in the media carriage (with the crew of Channel Nine TV), whilst Kathie positioning herself on specific viewable roadside spots, adjacent to the railway track. (I joined her on the return trip from Gembrook to Lakeside in Emerald (Victoria, Australia). I edited 120 photos out of approx. 600.

Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station is situated in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway.

Belgrave (Puffing Billy) is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station, which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne’s broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network. The suburban station is accessible via a short footpath. Before this station was built, the original narrow gauge line ran from the original site of the narrow-gauge station (approximately where the existing Metro station car park is) to Selby station.

Here are 3 photos I wish to share:

BELGRAVE LANTERN PARADE

The Belgrave Lantern Festival, in Victoria, Australia, is an annual celebration of the winter solstice, through community and creativity with a display of hundreds of homemade lanterns. The event takes place in the main street of Belgrave from around 5pm – 7:30pm and attracts thousands of visitors.

Here is a photo that I snapped last night:

NEGATIVES TO DIGITAL PROJECT

PART 4

It is a slow process to digitize all my film negatives that I have in storage from my days of using my Olympus 35 mm camera, as well as the Kodak Instamatic Camera, back in the period of the 1970s to 1980s. It is a fun project I have thrown myself into!

Here is another photo I had snapped back in the 1970s:

‘Walking On The Rocks’ – near Mentone, Victoria, Australia.

OLD CAMERAS

PART 5

Zeiss Ikon Camera
Source: Time magazine, 8 August 1960

PUFFING BILLY TRAIN

Here is another photo I had snapped the other night …

FINALLY

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John Weeks
Australia
johnweekstraveller@gmail.com

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FOX ON THE RUN

I visited the Braeside Wetlands this morning to photographed birds in the wild. I was joined by fellow photographer Kathie Thomas.

Braeside Park Wetlands Circuit trail provides visitors with a number of wetlands viewing opportunities and to observe the many varied bird species that reside in the park. The trail travels through open Red Gum and Manna Gum bushland area to the north east of the wetlands, with more grassy vegetation along the south western edge. Source: Park Vic https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/sites/wetland-circuit-trail

Sadly, there were few birds about this morning, however I was absolutely delighted to see a beautiful fox nearby. Here are two photos (among others) I had snapped of this wild creature:

There have been very few opportunities that I was able to photograph foxes in the wild. Here are two photos I had snapped in 2018:

Foxes fighting. Location: Upwey, Victoria, Australia. 16 July 2018. Ref. 1886

Two foxes at my neighbour’s backyard in Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. 24 March, 2018. Ref. 1578.

BIRDS AT BRAESIDE WETLANDS

Despite the seemingly lack of a huge amount of bird life around, we walked around the Wetlands circuit, approx 5 kms or so (I was informed that equates to over 10,000 steps today!), I did manage to snapped many photos of the bird life that was seen. Here are a couple photos of mine:

Birds Sighted today:

Black Swan
Gray Teal
Chestnut Teal
Blue-billed Duck
Australasian Grebe
Spotted Dove
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Tawny Frogmouth
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Australasian Swamphen
Silver Gull
Little Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican
Great Egret
White-faced Heron
Australian Ibis
Eastern Rosella
Rainbow Lorikeet
Superb Fairywren
Noisy Miner
Brown Thornbill
Gray Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Gray Fantail
Magpie-lark
Little Raven
Welcome Swallow
Common Myna
Eurasian Blackbird
Red-browed Firetail

(Thank you, Kathie Thomas, for the bird list)

MY PHOTOS PUBLISHED IN INDIA

A few years ago I travelled around India, particularly in Kolkata (Calcutta), and one of the many subjects that I challenged myself with was photographing popular singer, Christopher Lobo, at the many venues that he was performing at. I gave Christopher a whole lot of photos of mine for him to use in his publicity and media activities. I am delighted that he is using many of these photos to this day. Here is an example of such use:

Here is the original Photo of mine:

Keep on rockin, Christopher!!

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Agfa Optima – News Chronicle and Daily Despatch, 27 February, 1960.

BIG ROSE

‘Sculpture – Rose’ – Date: 24 March, 2010 – Ref. 361

FINALLY

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John Weeks
Australia
johnweekstraveller@gmail.com

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SLOW SHUTTER PHOTOS

Recently I submitted photos to the monthly photo competition organised by the Hills Photographic Society. The theme was ‘Slow Shutter Photography’. I didn’t receive any awards at last Thursday night’s meeting. The judging, on this occasion was conducted internally (due to an unexpected cancellation of an outside judge). Personally I prefer a qualified outside judge to assess and comment on the received photos. It is my way of further learning the techniques of photography.

Anyway, here are the four photos that I submitted:

HASSELBLAD MAGAZINES

A local photographer recently donated a stack load of magazines to the Hills Photographic Society for the members to take home. Even though I am not a ‘Hasselblad’ photographer, I took a few of these magazines in order to study the technique of some of the photographers that were featured in the magazines. In my view, you do not stop learning.

Here are some of these magazines, dating back to 1997/98, published in Sweden. Thankfully, the content is in English.

BIRDWATCHING AT LYSTERFIELD LAKE

Last Wednesday, 25 May, 2022, I and fellow photographer, Kathie Thomas, spent three and half hours at Lysterfield Lake, snapping photos of the many birds that we sighted there.

Lysterfield Lake (Victoria, Australia) is very popular for canoeing, kayaking and sailing, mostly on the weekends or public holidays. People take a refreshing swim in one of two swimming bays with sandy shores. There is lots to explore on the large lake. There’s canoeing or kayaking in order to view waterbirds and habitat that can’t be seen from land.

Here are the results of the day of our photography:

Protocol: Traveling
Complete
• Observers: 2
• Duration: 3 hr, 25 min
• Distance: 6.5 km

Species observed:

Pacific Black Duck – Number observed: 2
Musk Duck – Number observed: X
Eurasian Coot – Number observed: 5
Australasian Swamphen – Number observed: 12
Silver Gull – Number observed: 4
Little Pied Cormorant – Number observed: X
Little Black Cormorant – Number observed: 8
Straw-necked Ibis – Number observed: 4
Gang-gang Cockatoo – Number observed: 7
Galah – Number observed: 2
corella sp. – Number observed: 5
Crimson Rosella – Number observed: 3
Rainbow Lorikeet – Number observed: 2
Superb Fairywren – Number observed: X
Lewin’s Honeyeater – Number observed: 2
Yellow-faced Honeyeater – Number observed: 3
Noisy Miner – Number observed: 1
Red Wattlebird – Number observed: 1
White-browed Scrubwren – Number observed: 2
Brown Thornbill – Number observed: X
Gray Butcherbird – Number observed: 1
Australian Magpie – Number observed: 3
Pied Currawong – Number observed: 2
Magpie-lark – Number observed: 3
Little Raven – Number observed: 7
Welcome Swallow – Number observed: 1

(Thank you, Kathie Thomas, for the statistics)

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Zeiss Ikon Contina – Time Magazine, 4 April 1955

TODAY’S PHOTO

‘As The Sun Goes Down’ – I snapped this image today from my home in Belgrave (Victoria, Australia).

Thank you for the kind comments I received on social media this evening:

Lyn C. > Beautiful, lovely layers of colour. 👏🤗
Judith L. > Stunning,amazing colours John
Ian R. W. > Awesome
Peter J. D. > Stunning.
Joanne F. > Glorious.
Norma B. > Absolutely gorgeous!!
Brenda D. > The dead the living and the never ending…..
Christine E. > Beautiful thankyou
Colin P. > Moody skies…great silhouettes to balance
Robyn C. > Absolutely beautiful 🥰
Carmel H. > Gorgeous ❤️❤️
Sue F. > Magnificent!

FINALLY

By the way, check out my official website https://johnweekstraveller.wixsite.com/photography

For more information on the photographic digital books that I m producing go to https://johnweekstraveller.wixsite.com/photography/e-books

John Weeks
Australia
johnweekstraveller@gmail.com

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Official Website: https://johnweekstraveller.wixsite.com/photography
Email : johnweekstraveller@gmail.com or johnweekstraveller@iinet.net.au

CURRAWONG IN FLIGHT

I snapped this photo yesterday. These birds seem to be more present where I live (in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia) in this Autumn weather for some reason. I don’t mind. I love capturing these birds with my camera.

Here are a couple of photos I had snapped earlier this year …

DIGITAL BOOKS

Currently I am in the process of producing various digital books showcasing aspects and themes of my photography.

For example:

After extensive journeying around Ireland on two occasions I recently began sorting through thousands of photos that I had snapped of that beautiful country, and have now produced three digital books in a pdf format.

Ireland 2007 Digital Books – Photography of John Weeks

For more information on the photographic digital books that I am currently producing, go to https://johnweekstraveller.wixsite.com/photography/e-books

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Leica III – Source: Time Magazine, 18 August 1952

NEGATIVES TO DIGITAL PROJECT

Sorting through thousands of negatives of photos that I had snapped in the period of 1970-1980s.

Part 002

Near Mentone (Victoria), a path access which I regularly used to get down to the beach, usually on the weekend. My parents had a home unit five minutes walk to the beach.
14 April, 1980

MEERKAT

Who doesn’t like Meerkats?

The meerkat or suricate is a small mongoose found in southern Africa. It is characterised by a broad head, large eyes, a pointed snout, long legs, a thin tapering tail, and a brindled coat pattern. The head-and-body length is around 24–35 cm, and the weight is typically between 0.62 and 0.97 kg. Wikipedia

FINALLY

John Weeks
Australia

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