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New Exhibition
August 31, 2020 - New photos at the Tea Rooms. I've selected photos with a story for my second exhibition at The Hobart Town Tea Company,...
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Sandy Bay in the 1800s
August 31, 2020 - Sandy Bay
I think this is my best video yet and I'm very proud of it. I had a lot of help and the story is amazing so t...
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Forgotten Tasmania Episode 7 is out!
September 06, 2019 - Forgotten Tasmania Episode 7 is out!
In this series, I tell forgotten stories about Tasmania through the photos in th...
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I thought I'd never enter a photography contest
July 26, 2019 - As you know I'm all in with YouTube at the moment. The goal is to get enough material on YouTube and enough people watch...
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Who was John Watt Beattie?
May 07, 2019 - A man born on the other side of the world became one of the most famous Tasmanians of his time.
People ask me if I re...
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John Watt Beattie's story
April 24, 2019 - I'm writing Mr Beattie's life story for a talk at U3A (University of the Third Age). I really thought I knew Beattie, ha...
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Rephotography 101 - find your spot
March 17, 2019 - I'm re-photographing the Hobart Town photos for the book. This year will be all about the book.
Replicating an old phot...
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Rephotography
February 04, 2019 - According to Wikipedia, "Rephotography is the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the tw...
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See, I said I'd write soon.
March 11, 2018 - Lightroom says I have 5022 photos so I hit my 5000 by 2018 goal. There's plenty of crates left, I estimate another two o...
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New Shopping experience
February 05, 2018 - I've updated the web site yet again. If you want to buy prints, frames etc it's now a bit easier.
As you browse the gal...
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Inspiration
August 10, 2017 - You would think finding the inspiration to restore 5000 historic Tasmanian photos by iconic photographer John Watt Beatt...
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Numbers
December 30, 2016 - Numbers are interesting things. Most of our photos have numbers. They don't have much else to identify them, no names, n...
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Framing, finished products coming soon.
October 24, 2016 - The journey to digitising all of the Beattie Collection is a long and expensive one. If you've read any of my blog posts...
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A little re-arrange
September 26, 2015 - Now that I have NBN and can actually upload historic photos of Tasmania at a reasonable speed, I have taken the opportun...
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Sunday Tasmanian article
August 16, 2015 - A funny thing happened while I was working on some photos the other day. NBN called me to see if I was happy with my new...
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Crisis of conscience or new business plan?
August 31, 2014 - The collection of old photos of Tasmania in Beattie's Digital Studio has grown steadily over the last 6 months since our...
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A new mask makes all the difference
May 07, 2014 - I made a new mask for the 120 size negatives. These smallest photos in our collection (well not strictly true, we do hav...
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The "Groups box" is now done.
April 18, 2014 - I never know what I'll find going through the Beattie negative collection. There is no catalogue, no list. Just boxes of...
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Launch Day feedback please
February 25, 2014 - Hi All,
Our launch day was tinged with sadness for me as I remembered my Dad. I spent the day with my mother and my son...
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E-Commerce side coming together
February 15, 2014 - Over the past week, we have been developing the e-commerce side of our web site. This allows you to search, view and pur...
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Digitising begins!
December 29, 2013 - The task of digitising the 3000+ historic photographs that make up the Beatties Studio collection is underway!
Followin...
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