Peter MacDonald, Author at Peter MacDonald Photo

Rule of Odds Again

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 5, 2021
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The human eye finds images pleasing that have a certain balance or harmony. Apart from a single subject like a portrait, photographs are more visually interesting if they fall into groups of odd numbers….particularly threes. House guests or just visiting?

Filters and Exposure

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 26, 2021
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Using the Circular Polarising Filter to the max and playing with exposure for a more dramatic picture for the Dredge at the Murray Mouth. The sun was high and falling sideways across the scene which is where the polariser is at its maximum on a clear blue sky. Normally I’d back the strength of the […]

The Importance of Exposure

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 19, 2021
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I really wanted to take a photo of this tack room on Mundowdna Station near Maree in Outback South Australia. It was a collection of horse and camel saddles and the saddlebags the old cameleers used when camels where one of the main modes of transporting anything around Outback country. The trouble was the lighting. […]

Rule of Odds

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 12, 2021
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Your camera goes wherever you go

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 5, 2021
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Reading about the lives of successful photographers now and in the past, they always seemed to have their camera with them at all times. Many worked only short distances from their homes most of their lives and yet made outstanding photographs that are still masterpieces today. Joseph Sudek and Saul Leiter are just two of […]

Two Rocks

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 29, 2021
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Photography is an interesting pursuit. The bottom line though is an observation which brings me to this picture of two rocks or as I see it, father and son. Probably a thousand people or more walk past here every week and I wonder if any see it like this or just two rocks in […]

Summer Rain?

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 22, 2021
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It’s been a long hard battle with a particularly bad drought for many people in South Australia’s outback these last few years. Fortunately some rains came a few weeks back but despite some brief appearances of wildflower and ground cover things look grim if there are no follow up rains this summer. This picture is […]

The Bus

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 15, 2021
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You get attached to your cars, especially when they’ve just reached the 550,000 kilometre mark. It’s been many places that most cars or drivers wouldn’t dream of going. It been through floods, fire, across deserts and over mountain ranges and to a ist of outback places that is too long to mention. Put another way […]

The Covid-19 flowers

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 8, 2021
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What to do when you are housebound. Fortunately Covid-19 was about a three week affair here in South Australia. Nonetheless very scary as we watched what was happening around other parts of Australia and the rest of the world. In those first few weeks isolation and social distancing was at the forefront of everyone’s […]

The Posing Egret

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 1, 2021
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It’s pristine white feathers perfectly offset by the darkened waters edge beneath the jetty. The shadow of its neck along the back atop two very long legs. This bird would look good on any catwalk. Its pose is well practised as it waits still and patient for some unsuspecting fish to swim by. The image […]

Lilly

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On December 18, 2020
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The captivating colours of water lilies, the slightly chaotic arrangement and the opaque water they float in. So simple and serene. They’ll come and go but worth a photo. A small feature in the Hindmarsh Island gallery.

The Dead of Night

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On December 11, 2020
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Murray Mouth Through storm, wind and rain the iron lady continues her task of keeping the waters flowing through the small outlet that is the Murray Mouth. Without the dredge that shifting sand would close the gap casing major ecological damage to the surrounding area and fisheries. The image is one of the features in […]

Cygnets

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On December 4, 2020
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Picture book image of mother swan and her young chicks along the Mundoo Channel. Most of the year there are swans in the waters around here but in Spring the young cygnets are new arrivals protected by their two parents against the strong winds and violent storms that come with the season.

Lifeless Land.

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 23, 2020
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Outback Australia’s constant battle with drought. A lifeless landscape with the remnants of what was once the dog fence built to protect sheep grazing country from the ravages of wild dogs.

Murray Mouth Dunes

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 20, 2020
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The end of the line for Australia longest waterway. 2,500 kilometres long, the Murray meanders down from high in the Australian Alps in New South Wales. A photo of the Mouth it’s almost impossible without having at least of the three dredges working to keep the outlet open. The dunes though are windswept, every-changing fine […]

Frozen Waves

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 17, 2020
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Lake Frome, Outback South Australia Interesting backstory to this image. I was working over outback salt lakes that had recent rains. We’d been shooting at high altitudes but were finished and descending as we headed for base. Sitting in the back with the door open I was watching the waves in the water below. […]

Old Shearers

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 10, 2020
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In an ideal world the bar that drives the shears could have been better positioned but this was not a posed shot. I was more interested in framing the photo to include the dog, the window and the sponteneity of the two old shearers in conversation. It is one of my favorite images from the […]

Choices

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 5, 2020
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Sometime ago I did some work for a company that employed me to take still photographs. However they also wanted to video content. That didn’t work out too well. When I decided to swap to video, I kept seeing the good still photographs that I should have been taking, so both suffered. Since then I’ve […]

Meditation and Photography

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 26, 2019
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The value of Meditation has come a long away in the western world over last 20 years Even though Its been around for 2000 years or so in eastern culture it was treated with some scepticism by the modern world and science. That has rapidly changed in recent years with scientific study of the […]

On The Way To The Beach

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 2, 2019
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Moving House…one of those stressful things in life. So much to pack, so many items that have passed their used-by date. Enter the room where all my framed work is stored. So much that’s been in a gallery somewhere and not sold, others damaged but you could not bear the part with them. There […]

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