#ElfOnTheShelf

“The latest viral meme trend among the rich and famous is a clever twist on “The Elf on the Shelf,” the popular children’s book that inspired a Christmas tradition involving small, magical house guests that pop up around the holiday season to keep an eye on kids vying for a spot on Santa’s nice list.

But instead of “Elf on the Shelf,” Garcelle Beauvais, Reese Witherspoon, Elizabeth Banks, Sterling K. Brown, Kerry Washington and other entertainment luminaries have been flexing their rhyming skills with their own Photoshopped creations.

It all started with actress Beauvais’ “Garcelle on a Pharrell”: An image of a tiny Beauvais casually sitting on singer-producer Pharrell Williams’ shoulder. And a flood of similarly cheesy posts soon followed...”

• LA Times

Blanche Violet Maher

I accepted the challenge to bake these biscuits using a recipe from 100 years ago in the notebook of photographer Blanche Violet Maher.

There was no Method in the original recipe so I referred to the “Basic Biscuit Recipe” from The Commonsense Cookery Book first published in 1914. I also used my great-grandmother’s *Bakewell mixing bowl. The camera featured in this image is my 90 year old mother’s Box Brownie.

Blanche Violet Maher (b.1874) was an Australian photographer who lived with her family on Collaroy Station in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.

By all reports the biscuits were delicious and reminiscent of Ginger Nuts.

* #BakewellBrothers Ltd was established by William Bakewell, born in England in Nottingham county, who began making bricks and pipes on their Erskineville site in around 1884. The firm gradually developed to include the manufacture of tiles, pots, jars and other domestic and commercial wares.

NAIDOC Week

Aunty Jean Carter for Coota Girls NAIDOC Week 2020

Last light at Newtown beach

#photographersinisolation

#HowItStartedHowItsGoing

How it started. How it’s going.

Photographers in Isolation

Story of My Still Life, with Teacups and Nasturtiums

#Connection

Mobiography

#ProudBoys

Jan and Cam, 1999

#unexp_collective_love

unexposed collective

#massisolationaus

Last light, Forrest Lodge

Mass Isolation

The really enchanting folx are always on the opposite side of the street.

FIX Photo

#fixphotofestival

Photographers in Isolation

#photographersinisolation

Photographers in Isolation

Last light #photographersinisolation

Mass Isolation

Work in progress #massisolationaus

Negative Space

Buddhist nun with Cai Guo-Qiang’s Murmuration (Landscape) @ NGV, 2019

#Mobiography

Photographers in Isolation

#photographersinisolation

Rest in peace, Uncle Vincent Wenberg.

Condolences to Uncle Vince’s family and the KBH family.

I made this portrait of Uncle Vince in September 2002 at the site of the former Kinchela Boys Home near Kempsey, NSW, on the first Journey Home.

Mass Isolation

“Photography is the art of fixing a shadow”
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the inventor of photography on paper.

#TheAscentOfUs #massisolationaus

The first photograph I ever printed

This is the first photograph I ever printed myself, in a makeshift darkroom at school when I was 16 (my photography teacher was a maths teacher with a hobby and it was the 1970s).

I made the photograph of Meg in our backyard when I was about 14 or 15.