Wednesday, December 1, 2010

YP Photographic Competition

I've re-edited and named the following pic from a previous post. Everyone I've showed it to (pre-edit) just loved it and told me I'd be crazy not to enter it in a competition. The YP Photographic Competition has just opened and is running until May. Its free to enter and each person can submit up to 5 entries, so I figure I had nothing to lose :) Bel & Tracy - you should enter something!!!

Across the Golden Sand

Something else I've been up to is working with photos from the 50s, and 60s. They're from my Pop's collection.

I'm not sure who the kids are, or what the deal is with Pop's hat, but there you go. This photo was originally about the size of a business card, and it would have been nicer to add a bit more shadow/depth around the kids faces so they're not so white, but whenever I tried to do that, Pop became darker so I chose not to do that.

This is from when the river flooded up near Berri. Pop was clever enough to strap his car to some 44 gallon drums and voila!

This photo was originally out of focus, so was a bit tricky to work with. Pop is moving a shed somewhere - that shed was moved all the way from the river to Mt Rat. A very well travelled shed!!
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4 comments:

  1. BelyndaDecember 3, 2010 at 6:29 PM

    Wow these photos came up really well Sarah, great job! :)

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  2. TracyDecember 5, 2010 at 3:17 AM

    Hey Sarah, I just called Clive in to have a look at your old photos, as I knew he would find them of interest. Aren't old photos cool. I'm fascinated with times gone by too.
    As for the photographic competition, I'll have to do better than I did today:( I played around with some settings but the end result was some overly dark photos. I know I can correct them with software but it's always nice to get it right first time!
    You have a winner for your 'Across the Golden Sand'.

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  3. CliveDecember 11, 2010 at 7:52 PM

    Sarah, in the last photo, that is Ivan on the tractor with our crane. Ivan went up to the riverland in the Reo Speedwagon truck ("the Big Job") they called that truck, pulling our four wheeled trailer. They loaded Pop's sheds and all his other stuff up and brought it back to Mt. Rat. Ivan also had a peaked cap, they were all the go in those days, a lot of delivery truck drivers used to wear them.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 22, 2010 at 5:40 AM

    Hi Sarah! I lost your blog and only just found it again! you have great pictures!!! and wow the old photographs of ya pop's are awesome! i love old photos, it makes you feel really connected with the past time and to them. love it! keep up the good work!!! I hope you do great in the competition!! xo

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