View from the Ranges

Next stop the 19th Feb for “OPEN DAY FOR EAST TIMOR” in the gallery. Dr Peter Spitzer a local Clown Doctor who worked in East Timor will speak, along with Paddy Kenneally WW11 Veteran from the East Timor campaign of ‘42: Ros Dunlop Musicologist and Max Stahl Archive rep: Australian East Timor Association in the form of Mr. Jefferson Lee: PLUS His Excellency The Ambassador himself AND MUCH MORE. Thanks to the Queenbeyan Multicultural Centre (assisting migrants and refugees)Put this in your dairy. Here His Excellency with Goulburn Regional Art Gallery director Jennifer Lamb.

Last Friday nite, the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, saw the East Timor Photographs UP and working their magic. His excellency Jorge Teme, Ambassador for East Timor, did the honours. “..we can chose our friends, but we cannot chose our neighbours..”What am absolutely wonderfull nite, with over 100 people. My thanks to Jennifer Lamb, Kirsten and Janine, who all helped produce the show.It’s TIMORS oil! for heavens sake. Here are the Millers, with the Ambassador. Rosemarry Miller taught the Ambassador English over 15 years ago!

New friends Mr A Nominous and Ev, assist Anthony Browell (behind the pin hole “camera”) at the HIGH OCTANE lunch at “Gang Gang”

Here participant photographers feed up for the marathon ahead. What a most magical nite in Queen Victorias arch, with the moon peeking thru, and the odd bat gliding in from between the staglitites. Congrats to all paticipants, and especially to our honoured guest and fellow exhibitor Robert McFarlane. The most wonderfull of nites. See you all NEXT year for WIPF.

Here above Bowral, local elder Val Muchay and Dave Ball, dicuss the installation of a memorial to those first Aboriginal guides that so welcomed the 1st Europeans to the Wingecarribee district.It was near here in 1828 that Moyengully, of the Natti band, bargained good naturedly over a pair of trousers, with Major Mitchell, the government surveyor general.If they could see it now?

To Sydney where one was suprized by B.Hensons’ “advertizing” images about town (Gucci? Calvin Klein?) Trent Parks’ show (ACP) skims, and gives one the sense of alcohol abuse and violence which can be found ANYWHERE in Australia. These images had little compassion..well observed, but never “involved”..a skim.Meanwhile the Wombeyan International Photo Festival gathers momentum.More on that latter…