Random thoughts and observations
Today I discovered the outstanding Picture Australia website.
According to the About page: Picture Australia is an internet-based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time.
When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
There are lots of angry people in the world and local newspapers do a good job of reporting them. In fact, local newspapers would struggle to fill their pages if it wasn’t for all the anger out there.
A dedicated website publishes press photographs of angry people. As the author says: “I feel sorry for local news photographers. They are hugely skilled and poorly paid, and sent out to photograph miserable people pointing at dog turds. Here, we celebrate their work.”
Newspaper photographers are a dying species. The Guardian explains why newspapers are closing the shutters on staff photographers.
It mentions The Independent in England, the Daily Mirror and regional UK publisher Archant.
Newspaper photographers are in retreat. Staff jobs are vanishing as publishers look for new ways to cut costs.
I haven’t taken many sports pictures over the past couple of years and felt very rusty today when I tried to get some shots of Michael playing in a tennis tournament at Happy Valley.
This was the best effort, but most of the other 90 or so weren’t worth keeping.
There has been heavy rain in Traralgon over the past week, causing minor flooding of the Traralgon Creek. I used to like playing along the creek’s banks when I was a kid. It was pretty rough in those days (70s) with lots of blackberries, but in the town at least it has been pretty well cleaned up today. The creek used to flood significantly as well, but mitigation works have eased the threat.
