Our Town Revisited: Newcastle in colour with a focus on the 1970s
This is the Newcastle that I remember from my own younger days. And this is the most personal of our books to date, peppered with fragmentary anecdotes of my memories…
A tiny photo album, with even tinier tintype portraits.
Tintypes: oddities in the family album
Many older family photo albums and collections of family snapshots contain mysterious little pictures printed on thin plates of metal. These "tintypes" - also sometimes called ferrotypes - were a…
Bevis Platt riding on a turtle on the Great Barrier Reef
In search of Bevis Platt
Last year, in an antique shop near Tamworth, NSW, I bought a collection of photographic negatives. It was an interesting and quite large collection, with some glass plates and some…