The Camera Life

He Broke Into His Own Family Home to Save the Furniture. Then He Became One of the World's Most Awarded Photographers.
Jerry Ghionis was nineteen when the locks on his family home changed. The bank had repossessed the house during the recession that flattened so many Australian families in the early nineties, and J...

Six Months for One Photo: Andy Campbell on Deep Space Astrophotography
Most of us have stood in a dark paddock, looked up and wondered what's actually out there. Andy Campbell went and found out. From his backyard in Victoria and a shared roll-off roof observatory in ...

BFOP 2026 - The Lucky Straps Experience
For the past ten years, an Australian community of photographers has made the pilgrimage to the Victorian alpine township of Bright for the Bright Festival of Photography (BFOP). The festival is li...

Lucky Strap Quick Release System - Connect With Your Craft Quickly and Securely!
An all-too-common story is every photographer's lifelong search for perfect things. Perfect light, a perfect sunrise, perfect compositions, a perfect camera bag, and a perfect camera strap. You sh...

Marcus Bell on Finding Your Style, Choosing Soul Over Sharpness, and Getting Smaller on Purpose
Marcus Bell has spent twenty-five years doing what most photographers only dream about.
He is an AIPP Grandmaster and a Leica photographer; he has been named one of American Photo's ten best photo...

Steve Parish: The Photographer Who Built a $15 Million Empire, Lost Everything and Started Again
We've recorded 199 episodes of this podcast at this point, and we've never had a conversation quite like the one we had with Steve Parish OAM, our 200th episode!
Steve turned 81 the day before we ...

David duChemin on Why Vision Beats Gear, the Power of Constraints, and Making Something Real
David duChemin has photographed humanitarian stories in Haiti and India, spirit bears in the Great Bear Rainforest and elephants in Africa, written a shelf of books on the craft, and built a teachi...

Nick Carver on Film, Perfectionism, and Why YouTube Gave His Photos Somewhere to Go
Nick Carver earns his living photographing office blocks and industrial buildings, but the work that truly lights him up is shot on large-format film, on cameras you have to duck under a dark cloth...

Street Photography With the Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Super Zoom
I think it’s fair to say that third-party lens options have exponentially expanded in the past few years. And while third-party lenses from brands like Zeiss, Tamron, and Sigma have been on the mar...










