Beatties Studio

Forgotten Tasmania Episode 7 is out!

September 06, 2019 • 1 Comment

Forgotten Tasmania Episode 7 is out! In this series, I tell forgotten stories about Tasmania through the photos in the Beattie’s Studio Collection. This episode is about the GPO. It is based on photo number 42 from our collection; The GPO has been a constant in my life, but also a constant for Hobart. Here I go getting political again,...

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I started a Patreon

August 13, 2019 • Leave a Comment

A few people have asked if they can contribute to the restoration of the Beattie's Studio Collection without buying prints or books. And more than a few have actually done so. I am so grateful that the community values and believes in this collection as much as I do. The storage and web hosting costs are not insignificant. 2Tb+ of photos costs a...

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I thought I'd never enter a photography contest

July 26, 2019 • Leave a Comment

As you know I'm all in with YouTube at the moment. The goal is to get enough material on YouTube and enough people watching that YouTube pays me enough to keep the collection alive. From the outside, being a full time YouTuber seems like a pipe (the kind with water in it, possibly legal in California) dream for teenagers. In fact when my own son li...

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Who was John Watt Beattie?

May 07, 2019 • Leave a Comment

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 related in some way? I grew up in a family of photographers. I asked my father how come his work was called Beattie's when our name is Stephenson. He told me of this old man who was a famous photographer and his name was Beattie. Po...

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Video is hard, but fun!

April 24, 2019 • 1 Comment

I'm doing a series of videos for YouTube which is owned by Alphabet (Google) and gives me another way of getting our photos listed with Google and attracting more audience. I've planned and scripted the first batch of videos. I've set up a video studio and sorted lighting, talent, hair, makeup, sound and colour. That's been 3 months work. I have e...

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