Updated June 2008

Links to websites relevant to the environment, visual arts, photography, photo-collections, new music, news sites, local communities, web design, free programmes, Armenian Genocide and Free West Papua

Links

• My IXUSblog

  • My IXUSblog about my delving into digiography

• PHOTOGRAPHERS and PHOTOGRAPHS

  • Free Radicals Oz - should be Free Rascals given the WA membership list
  • World Pinhole Day
  • Bill Jay a great influence on my early photography - I still treasure my first edition of Album Magazine and the early Creative Camera Magazines
  • Magnum Photos
  • Kat Love Some of the strongest nude self portraiture I have seen
  • Damon Annison Australian Landscape photographer and publisher
  • Michael Wylie's Project Photography photography that rocks
  • David Dare Parker photojournalist
  • John Robinson former Fremantle photographer now in UK
  • Perth Centre for Photography
  • Unembedded photography from Iraq
  • Armin T. Wegner disturbing photographs of the Armenian Massacre by the Turks in 1915 - important early documentary photography and a case to remind us of current genocides in West Papua and Darfur. West Papua & Darfur are happening now
  • James Nachtwey Vanity Fair portfolio of Nachtwey's photographs of Agent Orange victims in Vietnam and USA.

• CAMERAS and LENSES

  • Gandolfi Cameras If you want true beauty go here

• ENVIRONMENT

  • Global Forest Action
  • Environmental Defenders Office
  • Australian Wildlife Protection Council
  • WE Archive
  • Ramsar Wetlands

• ARTISTS & GALLERIES

  • Elements Art Gallery Subiaco Western Australia
  • Nel Simpson aerialist
  • Peter Kovacsy sculptural glass
  • ArtGeo Busselton
  • Greg James Sculpture Studio and Gallery
  • Southern Forest Sculpture Walk
  • Adam Dutkiewicz, Moon Arrow Press, Adelaide
  • Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
  • Mountford's Gallery Pemberton
  • Rita Winkler, Jeweller

• BLOGS

  • My IXUS blog about my delving into digiography
  • Paul Nachman's blog I "worked" with Nasher in early 1970s
  • Planet Karen, a Foxy cartoon diary
  • Archana-Mystery
  • Between You & Me a blogcommunity participating art blog

• PUBLICATIONS

  • Adam Dutkiewicz, Moon Arrow Press, Adelaide

• LOCAL COMMUNITIES

  • Northcliffe Community site
  • My Southwest

• NEWS and OPINION

  • RSF Reporters Without Borders
  • Digital Journalist
  • ZNet
  • ICH Information Clearing House
  • Unembedded photography from Iraq
  • New Matilda

• FREEDOM and FREE WEST PAPUA

  • Hu Jia gaoled Chinese activist and writer
  • Tsering Woeser The Tibet Mirror
  • Amnesty International
  • AWPA_WA local support web-site
  • Free West Papua
  • AWPA Sydney
  • International Action for West Papua
  • New Internationalist Special Edition on WP
  • Acheh-Papua-Maluku Human Rights Online
  • Ham Papua.org Human Rights Resource for West Papua
  • Friends of People Close to Nature
  • Support FWP, get your spectacles from Optical Superstore
  • GetUp

• COLLECTIONS

  • Picture Australia (type "john bernard austin" in search box)
  • National Library of Australia
  • National Portrait Gallery

• WEB DESIGN and FREE PROGRAMMES

  • KarriCountry Graham Evans Web design & training
  • CCC Tom Keller, designer
  • The Gimp 2.4 Gnu Image Manipulation Programme
    Originally a free Photoshop equivalent - but with the 2.4 version GIMP is in many ways now superior to Photoshop - particularly GIMP's cropping tool which includes the option for precisely setting image aspect ratios and Golden Mean guides - also I prefer the UFRaw RAW worksite to the Photoshop CS version
  • XnView a really good image catalogue and file programme with convenient batchworking tools
  • Arachnophilia HTML programme
  • FileZilla FTP programme
  • OpenOffice.org 2 Beyond Microsoft Office - better and it's free!
  • Mozilla Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email



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