Two women with a flathead, probably at Lake Macquarie. Photo by Milton Merrilees.
Ones that didn’t get away: people with fish.
Rummaging around collections of old amateur and family photos and negatives I find certain themes recur. One of these themes is fish and fishing. People love fishing, and taking photos of each other fishing. Personally, I am nobody's idea of a fisherman. You can count the fish I've caught on the fingers of one hand and still have a couple of fingers left over. Fish fingers, probably, since that's more my style than worrying myself with cold winds, tangled lines, smelly marine life and all the rest of the alleged pleasures that accompany the fishing life.…