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Acorn Photo

Locality: Subiaco, Western Australia

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Address: 298 Hamersley Rd 6008 Subiaco, WA, Australia

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24.01.2022 My first SLR was a secondhand OM1. This is a fascinating read that makes me realise how much of that tiny, jewel like camera I took for granted. https://www.ifixit.com//fixing-an-old-film-camera-part-2-f

22.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Jono and Beth Beth The day’s rhythm. Get up at 5, read the headlines, check the covid numbers-general US, California, the world, WA. Then dressIng in workout gear, stretch, gradIng assignments, Checking emails, teachIng online for large chunks of time watching students come and go, hearing excuses for incomplete work sometimes seeing some good work. Then walking, listening to a talking book, eating dinner, washing up, some reading or TV and repeat.... Jono On the beach in the last darkness before nautical dawn watching the ISS scoot across to disappear in the early beams, waiting in trepidation of the depooled squadders’ yowls of protest on entering the ocean to break the tranquility. We are on the mend when they return to their luke warm pools. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

21.01.2022 There's still work to do. I've put together a brief protocol for our interactions with clients. Have a look and let me know what I've missed or could have expressed better :-) https://acorn.com.au/protocol/

19.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Josh & Millie "Just before the borders closed, when the word overseas and over east was that this virus could be very dangerous for the vulnerable in the community, I packed my partner Tanya into her ute and down south to isolate at our property near Albany. Tan has an auto-immune condition and suffered a SCAD heart attack a year ago. Moet and Ollie, our dog and cat joined her but at the last minute we decided it may be best for Miss Millie to stay in Pe...rth with me. And what a delight she is. She was only 5 months old when Tan left and she really gave me some company to look forward to after long days at work. When she's out of her coup she sits on the chair next to me in my Zoom meetings or follows me around like a little puppy. I’m not sure she gets the whole social distancing thing - she has to be within about 2 feet of me at all times. With her help I’ve had my best 2nd quarter in real estate ever (that’s over 20 years). And as a bonus she’s started laying." Thanks @joshbrockhurst https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

18.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Michele "I have loved the time of covid, mostly. The world of distraction and achievement has disappeared. In its place the natural world is amplified. I notice the energy and silences of birds, and strangely some of them seem to engage with me. I wake most days with a sense of anticipation and I spend long hours in my studio, growing a painting steadily and slowly. Days are long and open, slow and deliberate. One thing at a time. After several attempts ...to get seedlings I plant out a veggie garden. 'Grow your own food in case all the farmers have died or are in hospital'. At last I have some tiny precious plants. Nights are anxiety-ridden and fractured. Dreams recur - of insoluble puzzles with pieces that don’t fit. I worry about those without food, in confined spaces, of children locked in domestic violence, of having no means. I don’t have the courage to venture imaginatively into refugee camps. Those are the darkest corners. At least, for now, we can park the politics of climate change in a shady laneway."

17.01.2022 Isolation Portraits... Today's update is of Jennie . I work from home and if I need to reset, I will come out here and just watch the bees flying in and out of the hive, and busy time stops and earth time starts. It’s curious that creatures so fast and hard working seem to have the ability to slow time too. . Sometimes when I’m harvesting, a bee will get caught in the honey. I’ll pop her on the landing board and her sisters will rush over and clean all the honey off and save ...her life. Just like we do when one, or many, of ours are hurt or ill. . Today many of the restrictions we have been living with lifted and I have mixed feelings about it. Once the initial anxiety about income and illness subsided, this became a very full time for me. . Full in the sense that currently there are four adults living here, with our shared dinners a highlight of our days. Full in the sense that formerly empty weekday footpaths and parks have come to life with families walking, running, cycling and playing together. And full in the sense that guilty thoughts of neglected friends far and near have become the action of video calls or long walks together. . I hope we can stay on earth time. . More portraits... https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/ See more

17.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - This is Leigh Robinson, architect. I've only been working with Leigh for a quarter of a century. I'm posting two pics, the one in the website gallery works well with Leigh's observations about working from home, but I really like the closer one. . All these portraits have been made with a very basic kit; camera with a standard or wide prime lens, a travel tripod and available lighting only. The reflection from a back window lends this late afternoon sho...t a cinematic air. . "We decanted our architectural practice to a working from home environment during the week ending the 20 March. One office of 45 people immediately morphed into 45 separate offices spread across the metro area, with makeshift work spaces set up on dining room tables, or in home studies, bedrooms and living rooms. This significant shift in how a very collaborative design studio would now need to operate remotely and virtually, required the cooperation of everyone and the willingness to establish a new routine, to make the adjustment to spending every day at home and away from work colleagues. Weekdays and weekends quickly blurred in to one in a strange way. Keeping in contact with staff and friends by Teams or Zoom, words we hadn’t even heard of a few weeks earlier, have now become the new normal, be it for meetings with clients or virtual drinks with close friends at the end of the week. It has all worked surprisingly well. Early morning walks, evening walks, middle of the day walks, have provided the much needed respite from our homes and from our laptops, and are looked forward to each day. Some streets in our suburbs have been discovered for the first time as we search for a new route as we walk out the front gate. Our Welsh Spring Spaniel, Harley, has enjoyed the constant company and increased outings, and will need to readjust back to her old routine, as we gradually return to our lives of less isolation in the weeks or months ahead. Throughout all of this we have been reminded again that we indeed live in a lucky country, when hearing stories from friends in London and Italy, about how significantly Covid-19 has impacted their lives and communities." More portraits here; https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

16.01.2022 I thought it might be time to do something useful with my life :-) For a couple of years I’ve been working (slowly) on a side project incorporating photography and writing about Perth’s built environment. Initial impetus was provided by my desire to update the good work that was done by Geoffrey London and Patrick Bingham Hall in their 2002 book ‘A Short History of Perth Architecture’. I’ve dispensed with the idea of producing a book for the time being. Settling on a defini...tive list of structures is just too daunting, not to mention making a publication deadline. So the work will be published online. A simple format; a single square image in either colour or black and white accompanied by a short essay. At present the site is being funded by me. Fabulous web designers OM4, have made a very generous in-kind contribution and are listed as sponsors along with me under the Acorn Photo banner. I hope to find two additional sponsors to help with the ongoing hosting costs. A good resource of existing images and the time and enthusiasm to create new work where needed make this pretty easy to keep alive. My hope is to interest people engaged with design and the built environment in contributing essays that illuminate aspects of our local design history and offer personal perspectives on our city and region. There are just four buildings up at the moment - let’s see if I can add another each week! Follow @insearchofperth on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter to get notifications of updates, and check out the In Search Of Perth website; https://insearchofperth.com.au/

16.01.2022 I've embarked on a photo-documentary project about life in varying degrees of isolation. Thank you to my wonderful sitters Kevin and Flick Dear 19/04/2020 Kevin and Flick Kevin 'My daughter's looking after me, I'm in palliative care. She set her home up so I can live here. I had a massive heart attack and couldn't go back to where I lived.'... Flick 'Due to Covid-19 if Dad went to palliative care or a nursing home he couldn’t have family around him. It’s an honour to have him here with me. He’s a wonderful Dad and was a beautiful carer for my Mum before she died on Valentines Day. He says he’s going to his girl.' See more

16.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Neil Suzie and I have been thinking for some time that our garden is due for a refresh, and this weird time seemed like a good moment to swap my T square for a shovel. The garden makeover began with a Monday verge collection. The family pitched in to uproot virtually the entire back yard and put it out for collection. From there communal interest waned, and it was left to me to get the project over the line. Immersing myself in the garden and producing s...omething positive for the family was the perfect Covid time antidote for me. And physically creating something has a positive effect on the soul. Working on the garden, I reflected on what was inspiring me. My career long interest in the incorporation of building and landscape design? Was I becoming my father who loved his garden and created his own garden makeover in a move to native plants in the early 1970’s. Or, was it simply my love of Suzie and wanting to reward her for all that she does? https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

14.01.2022 I've embarked on a photo-documentary project about how we're living in varying degrees of isolation - Isolation Portraits. Thank you to my wonderful sitters... 03/04/2020 Susan 'Isolation for me isn’t too far to the norm. As an artist, one is often in a ‘solitary confinement’ of sorts, as the process requires minimal disruption. The difference being, nowadays instead of hearing the occasional interaction in the hallway or sharing my lunch time with a fellow studio dweller, al...l that is left is the echo of an occasional door closing or the passing vehicles outside. In a way, all artists have always been isolation from the world, in order to have to see the world differently. This is perhaps our time." Susan Roux You can find more portraits here; https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

13.01.2022 Chuffed to hear that Steele Bishop's 1983 World Championship bike will finally be dusted off as part of the WA Museum's new displays. Steele was the first Western Australian to win a world championship in the 5,000m pursuit at the 1983 UCI World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland on 26 August 1983. His story and his bike with its world champion rainbow stripes on the frame will be featured in the new Western Australian Museum's Reflections gallery.... I did this portrait of Steele with the bike at the Museum store in 2016 when it last saw the light of day as part of the WA Historical Cycle Club's exhibition "Our Hidden Cycling History". It was the first time I met him and I'm proud to call him a friend today.

12.01.2022 Today's Isolation Portrait - Terri-ann 'My entire adult life has followed the pattern of going out most nights of the week, travelling for weeks and months each year, Cooking is a rarity. I’ve been alone at home for seven weeks with no visitors. I love being sociable, and I also love solitude. I have found a lovely pattern here to my days and nights. In early March I bought a dress from Megan Salmon. Its fabric and textured pattern, and its pleats give me much pleasure. I sta...rted to wonder if I’d ever get to wear it. Today, in preparation for my portrait, I washed my hair in my first shower in days and tried on my new dress. It became a moment to think back on these weeks of isolation. I’ve settled down well in here, although I cry at the drop of a hat. The children and grandparents on 7.30 do it to me. Thinking about friends in India, in New York, and around the corner leave me depleted. It was soothing to welcome Rob into my house today..' more portraits here; https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

11.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Michele "I have loved the time of covid, mostly. The world of distraction and achievement has disappeared. In its place the natural world is amplified. I notice the energy and silences of birds, and strangely some of them seem to engage with me. I wake most days with a sense of anticipation and I spend long hours in my studio, growing a painting steadily and slowly. Days are long and open, slow and deliberate. One thing at a time. After several attempts ...to get seedlings I plant out a veggie garden. 'Grow your own food in case all the farmers have died or are in hospital'. At last I have some tiny precious plants. Nights are anxiety-ridden and fractured. Dreams recur - of insoluble puzzles with pieces that don’t fit. I worry about those without food, in confined spaces, of children locked in domestic violence, of having no means. I don’t have the courage to venture imaginatively into refugee camps. Those are the darkest corners. At least, for now, we can park the politics of climate change in a shady laneway."

11.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Josh & Millie "Just before the borders closed, when the word overseas and over east was that this virus could be very dangerous for the vulnerable in the community, I packed my partner Tanya into her ute and down south to isolate at our property near Albany. Tan has an auto-immune condition and suffered a SCAD heart attack a year ago. Moet and Ollie, our dog and cat joined her but at the last minute we decided it may be best for Miss Millie to stay in Pe...rth with me. And what a delight she is. She was only 5 months old when Tan left and she really gave me some company to look forward to after long days at work. When she's out of her coup she sits on the chair next to me in my Zoom meetings or follows me around like a little puppy. I’m not sure she gets the whole social distancing thing - she has to be within about 2 feet of me at all times. With her help I’ve had my best 2nd quarter in real estate ever (that’s over 20 years). And as a bonus she’s started laying." Thanks @joshbrockhurst https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

10.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Jim "A lot of money is being thrown around where was it prior to COVID? Homeless people why not give provisions prior to COVID? We know of 35 households not getting enough to eat. Now the problem is exacerbated as we can’t connect with the services. Normality what is that? We can’t go back to normal. We are sick and tired of that normality. Go past any hospital how many people outside are Aboriginal people?"... https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

08.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Jim "A lot of money is being thrown around where was it prior to COVID? Homeless people why not give provisions prior to COVID? We know of 35 households not getting enough to eat. Now the problem is exacerbated as we can’t connect with the services. Normality what is that? We can’t go back to normal. We are sick and tired of that normality. Go past any hospital how many people outside are Aboriginal people?"... https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

08.01.2022 https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/ Isolation Portraits - Harriet . I like this quote from The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Macksey:... . Sometimes, said the horse. Sometimes what? asked the boy. Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent. . At the beginning of lockdown, it felt quite scary going anywhere. Our magnificent performers soldiered on, and brought a lot of joy to people in isolation. I feel really proud that we made a difference to peoples spirits during a tough time. Turns out opera was just what everyone needed to hear in a pandemic! See more

07.01.2022 https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/ Isolation Portraits - Harriet . I like this quote from The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Macksey:... . Sometimes, said the horse. Sometimes what? asked the boy. Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent. . At the beginning of lockdown, it felt quite scary going anywhere. Our magnificent performers soldiered on, and brought a lot of joy to people in isolation. I feel really proud that we made a difference to peoples spirits during a tough time. Turns out opera was just what everyone needed to hear in a pandemic! See more

07.01.2022 Isolation Portrait - Philip and Vanessa. 'The lockdown I’ve actually enjoyed it. I work from home juggling paid work and personal projects. My daily routine hasn’t changed that much. Vanessa’s been checking in daily with her family in Italy, where their continuing lockdown has been severe .. her poor mum been alone in her apartment for more than eight weeks now. I’m documenting the social impact of the virus, and that’s also been a good process to help connect to the local ...community. Things outside in Northbridge, and downtown have been more peaceful and there seems to be a greater awareness between people - you’re more physically conscious of where you are in relation to others, kind of like being in a spartan spaghetti western or a Jeffery Smart canvas. I'm hopeful when we come out of this enforced bubble the world will be a better place, more sustainable, more awareness of excesses but looking back on history to how other pandemics and catastrophes have played out, I'll reserve some doubt.' https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

07.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Georg and Michael Just over 12 years ago we moved from Germany to Australia. Before that, Michael came from New Zealand to live with me in Germany. Thanks to the comparatively low number of Covid-19 cases in Western Australia, the isolation during this pandemic seems to be the first time that we feel happy to be misplaced here. The biggest worries are for our families. How would we be able to support them if there aren't any international flights anymore... that could us get near them? The time has allowed us to slow down 'and smell the daisies'. I did not experience the loneliness of the isolation, as so many others did. As a musician I work a lot alone at home. It was a nice change to have Michael here. Particularly lovely has been hearing the music that he played via Zoom conference every morning to the dancers of the WA Ballet and the view on his screen of all of them dancing in their private homes. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

07.01.2022 "Henderson ordered work to commence before waiting for a response from England. The buildings’ constructed differed in detail from the design types submitted; h...owever, the design and the actual construction were based on contemporary English workers’ housing." https://insearchofperth.com.au/story/warders-cottages/ See more

06.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Georg and Michael Just over 12 years ago we moved from Germany to Australia. Before that, Michael came from New Zealand to live with me in Germany. Thanks to the comparatively low number of Covid-19 cases in Western Australia, the isolation during this pandemic seems to be the first time that we feel happy to be misplaced here. The biggest worries are for our families. How would we be able to support them if there aren't any international flights anymore... that could us get near them? The time has allowed us to slow down 'and smell the daisies'. I did not experience the loneliness of the isolation, as so many others did. As a musician I work a lot alone at home. It was a nice change to have Michael here. Particularly lovely has been hearing the music that he played via Zoom conference every morning to the dancers of the WA Ballet and the view on his screen of all of them dancing in their private homes. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

06.01.2022 Isolation Portrait.... 24/04/2020 Lucille and Maya 'My daughter and I unexpectedly ended up together during the Corona Virus lockdown. We had different visions of how 2020 would pan out, however, despite disruption and unexpected changes, we managed to find peace and comfort in my childhood home.... The life of a freelance artist is planned well ahead, often precipitated by art organisations. Projects, awards and residencies from Albany to Italy were rapidly cancelled. I was in shock. With Maya’s prompting, and the need for us both to have space our little cottage had its bones turned upside down. We reconfigured rooms into studios, tossed furnishings and purged comforts. It’s been a time of reflection. Much has been debated. I am so grateful to have been with Maya, watching her art thrive, cooking, walking in nature while we considered Buddhism on impermanence and the meaning of life. More than anything we are appreciative of being in a very lucky country - to have landed in WA and to have our good health.' more iso portraits - https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

06.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Philip Noakes, silversmith and teacher... . "What a time to live in! From 60 students to none and my Sydney exhibition postponed. I watched so many detective series that I was unsure if I was in a tunnel or on a bridge. And movies blurred into one distant memory mainly because I dozed off half way through. One that lodged in my mind is a short film based on a true story A Cat Named Bob Enough of wasting time..... A new group of work has evolved from drawings and fabrication of objects from copper as the Britannia silver factories in England were closed due to Covid-19. To my surprise, the silence of the studio is very appealing and highly productive. Teaching will start soon and I am not sure how I feel; I think I have forgotten how to speak with others. I am also reluctant to give up the silence of creativity apart from my hammers."

05.01.2022 Another from my series of Isolation Portraits - this is Helene :-) 'Thank goodness for nature; she gives me abundant surprises. Like the day the seeds I'd carefully placed in this pot, suddenly SPROUTED! I was excited. It's been a long time since I seriously gardened. And I remember now, as I tend these tiny babies, how such care nourishes me too. This time in isolation has given me time to stop and to catch up with a world that runs on sunshine time rather than clock ti...me. To watch the absolute magic of a leaf uncurling, the dance of a skink between paving bricks. To ground into this good earth that holds me and all life in her generous hand.' to see more from this series; https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

04.01.2022 Chuffed to hear that Steele Bishop's 1983 World Championship bike will finally be dusted off as part of the WA Museum's new displays. Steele was the first Western Australian to win a world championship in the 5,000m pursuit at the 1983 UCI World Championship in Zurich, Switzerland on 26 August 1983. His story and his bike with its world champion rainbow stripes on the frame will be featured in the new Western Australian Museum's Reflections gallery.... I did this portrait of Steele with the bike at the Museum store in 2016 when it last saw the light of day as part of the WA Historical Cycle Club's exhibition "Our Hidden Cycling History". It was the first time I met him and I'm proud to call him a friend today.

03.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Jono and Beth Beth The day’s rhythm. Get up at 5, read the headlines, check the covid numbers-general US, California, the world, WA. Then dressIng in workout gear, stretch, gradIng assignments, Checking emails, teachIng online for large chunks of time watching students come and go, hearing excuses for incomplete work sometimes seeing some good work. Then walking, listening to a talking book, eating dinner, washing up, some reading or TV and repeat.... Jono On the beach in the last darkness before nautical dawn watching the ISS scoot across to disappear in the early beams, waiting in trepidation of the depooled squadders’ yowls of protest on entering the ocean to break the tranquility. We are on the mend when they return to their luke warm pools. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

03.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Neil Suzie and I have been thinking for some time that our garden is due for a refresh, and this weird time seemed like a good moment to swap my T square for a shovel. The garden makeover began with a Monday verge collection. The family pitched in to uproot virtually the entire back yard and put it out for collection. From there communal interest waned, and it was left to me to get the project over the line. Immersing myself in the garden and producing s...omething positive for the family was the perfect Covid time antidote for me. And physically creating something has a positive effect on the soul. Working on the garden, I reflected on what was inspiring me. My career long interest in the incorporation of building and landscape design? Was I becoming my father who loved his garden and created his own garden makeover in a move to native plants in the early 1970’s. Or, was it simply my love of Suzie and wanting to reward her for all that she does? https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

02.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Fiona and Bernd's is the second one I did (way back in March) ... . . "Front of mind right now is keeping our 35 yo business afloat and getting our heads around a conservative government’s socialist measures to help keep our staff in wages. The times feel shocking and tumultuous, exposing the best and worst in people. There are gems among our staff. . Our isolation is a community gesture, deepening our appreciation of true friends, our children and neig...hbours. It feels more supportive and sustaining than extended family. There’s satisfaction in making sourdough bread by hand, delight in gifting and trading it. Rituals discarded in haste, return like sending and receiving letters, playing a long-ignored guitar, finding on our doorstep a child’s hand-knitted gift, and, for the first time since we were married, eating three home-cooked meals a day. . On walks and rides strangers meet our gaze or stop and chat; streets and parks normally hushed on a weekday bustle. Hours of solitude invite contemplation and appreciation. Day by day we learn how little we need." . https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/ See more

01.01.2022 "Henderson ordered work to commence before waiting for a response from England. The buildings’ constructed differed in detail from the design types submitted; h...owever, the design and the actual construction were based on contemporary English workers’ housing." https://insearchofperth.com.au/story/warders-cottages/ See more

01.01.2022 Isolation Portrait - Philip and Vanessa. 'The lockdown I’ve actually enjoyed it. I work from home juggling paid work and personal projects. My daily routine hasn’t changed that much. Vanessa’s been checking in daily with her family in Italy, where their continuing lockdown has been severe .. her poor mum been alone in her apartment for more than eight weeks now. I’m documenting the social impact of the virus, and that’s also been a good process to help connect to the local ...community. Things outside in Northbridge, and downtown have been more peaceful and there seems to be a greater awareness between people - you’re more physically conscious of where you are in relation to others, kind of like being in a spartan spaghetti western or a Jeffery Smart canvas. I'm hopeful when we come out of this enforced bubble the world will be a better place, more sustainable, more awareness of excesses but looking back on history to how other pandemics and catastrophes have played out, I'll reserve some doubt.' https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

01.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Errol Musician and architect Errol Tout lives with diabetes, cancer and Addison’s disease which, as he says "does awful things to one's immune system. He's been in isolation at home since mid March, continuing work on an album in his basement studio. Sandie, Errol’s better half, makes occasional well planned forays to the shops and has hunted down the last veggie box delivery service that still had any capacity.... Errol, true to his glass half full attitude, comments that their neighbourhood has recently come alive with the sound of children at home. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

01.01.2022 Isolation Portraits... Today's update is of Eli and sami. Eli communicates with signs and PODD. sami is one of his carers and a great friend (of Eli's and mine). This is a bit of a bonus issue with portraits of both of them and a shot of them together. Eli enjoys fresh air and watching trains, something many of us share with him. With sami's assistance he's a regular on this patch and it was great to see the train drivers waving to him as they left Bassendean Station.... 'haiku coming soon most inspired early mornings coffee beckons now' more Iso Portraits here - https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/

01.01.2022 Isolation Portraits - Errol Musician and architect Errol Tout lives with diabetes, cancer and Addison’s disease which, as he says "does awful things to one's immune system. He's been in isolation at home since mid March, continuing work on an album in his basement studio. Sandie, Errol’s better half, makes occasional well planned forays to the shops and has hunted down the last veggie box delivery service that still had any capacity.... Errol, true to his glass half full attitude, comments that their neighbourhood has recently come alive with the sound of children at home. https://acorn.com.au/story/isolation-portraits/