Ian Wallace
>Ian Wallace is a successful Tasmanian landscape photographer usually found at the celebrated Salamanca Markets. In summer he conducts photographic workshops with his friend Loic Le Guilly at Cradle Mountain. As well as producing a range of cards, posters and a calendar, he has self published two books. Ian was featured as a Tasmanian Living Artist in 2005. He is a member of the AIPP.
>2008 Epson Tasmanian Professional Photographer of the Year
>Runner Up 2007 Epson Tasmanian Professional Photographer of the Year
>2007 Instinctive Desires New Photographer of the Year
>Internet site: www.ianwallace.com.au
>This photograph was taken by Loic LeGuilly, you can see more of his images here
Disaster! They say things come in threes
- By Ian Wallace
- Published 21st January, 2007
Well this has been a week of mixed emotions but first things first: Saturday visits: A big hello to my good friend Douglas who visited over the Christmas period and sent me this photo (below). Loic, Georgie and Zoe made their first public appearance at the stall as a family, it didn't last very long as Zoe was getting a little grizzly due to her meal time getting closer – she must take after her dad!
Thanks to Rebecca for bringing in her family - most had received books for presents and wanted to come and chat about the adventures. I also enjoyed meeting Bill, a fellow photographer with more and funnier stories than I have heard in a long time. Thanks to everyone who visited!
(OK - I know i need a haircut!)
starting off badly:
Monday morning has been a ritual for me for the past 4 years, at 8.30 am precisely I call the Hobart City Council to try and get myself a market stall for the weekend. Most of the time it goes without a hitch - it takes about 15 minutes to get through and eventually I get rationed a site (usually in a completely different location to the previous week) this week the phone gods were not on my side, I took a little longer to get through and as a result - no stall! I was on the dreaded waiting list! Sometimes with as many as 50 people on it, the waiting list is a last chance for people to fill in the blank spots on the day. This comes at the cost of not being able to set up until 8.00 am instead of my usual 6.00 am start. This also means that I’m not able to get my car into Salamanca so I need to be able to carry everything in! To make things a little easier on me (and due to a slight drizzle) I decided to take only my books and canvas prints – the things that I could carry in and would be easy to set up. Saturday rolled around and luckily I was given a nice site and within just a few minutes (it usually takes me over an hour) I was set up! My day went well, a few people were disappointed at the lack of photographs to peruse but it actually gave me much more time to spend with people rather than hunting for individual images! So, it would be much appreciated if you would keep your fingers crossed for me each Monday at around 8.30 am as I need all the help (and luck) that I can get!
it never rains it pours:
On Friday I organised a double dive to harvest some more underwater photographs for a project I am currently working on. Conditions were good and our dive guide Gary (Eaglehawk Dive Centre) took us to some magical places. I was so excited, I geared up first at a site called 'Little Waterfall Bay' and descended to 5 metres, deciding to start my photography at the top of a huge boulder - AAGGGHHHHHhhhhhh....... I just couldn't get the camera to work. I tried everything and realised that to have any hope of salvaging this dive time I would need to return to the boat, open the housing and see what magic I could perform. I spent 20 minutes trying not to drip into my housing on the rocking surface of the boat with no luck - it was broken. So I sat the dive out, waited for the other divers to return and decided to simply enjoy the second dive. I announced to the boat that whoever wanted to dive with me would be assured of seeing some interesting sights as I would be without my camera and, as luck would have it, that is usually when I see the most amazing things. Sure enough, my dive buddies and I stumbled across FIVE weedy sea dragons! ..........NO CAMERA!
(OK - this one was not one of the five - but they looked just like him!)
A sad ending:
On my return to Hobart, I took my sick camera to the camera hospital where I was told the worst news of the week - at least 4 weeks to repair! Faced with this dilemma, I decided to purchase a second body (D200) to cover the service time and also to have a back up when I eventually have a flooding accident with my underwater adventures! (Not that I’m tempting fate!!) Not a planned purchase but the more I think about it the more sensible an idea I think it is.
So that was my week - not the best but certainly not the worst and all ended well with a great day at the market.
As I didn't get any underwater photographs to share with you, I have included a couple of Melbourne images I have just gotten around to uploading to my gallery – here’s hoping next week is a little easier on the emotions (and the wallet!)
thanks for reading
;-)
www.ianwallace.com.au
