Thanks to Allen & Unwin Book Publishers for the opportunity to photograph Writer Eddie Ayres for "Danger Music"
Varanasi, India ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
The workout, Wrestlers Gym, Varanasi, India" . ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Workout
"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction" -Aneurin Bevan . ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Avid Reader
Ringside with Fred Brophy Tent Boxing at Mt Isa ©Russell Shakespeare
Ringside
Thanks to Good Weekend Magazine for running one of my India images on their "Exposure" page.
©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Good Weekend Magazine
"Interesting Advertising for a Business" . from "the daily walk" series .
©Russell Shakespeare 2017
today's walk
Danger Music
"Pacific Black Duck" Currumbin Valley, Australia. ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
down by the pond
"Bindi Irwin for Crikey Magazine, photographed at the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve, Cape York, Australia" ©Russell Shakespeare/Australia Zoo 2017
Bindi Irwin
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” - Henry David Thoreau . photo ©Russell Shakespeare
the Drummer
"Munna Lal, Varanasi" . ©Russell Shakespeare
Eternal Flame
My dear friend Munna Lal in the last days of his life
"Ravi's Chai Shop, Varanasi" ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Ravi's Chai Shop
I still love to use film for my own personal work, this photograph was taken with a nikonos water camera. I still love the feel of film, of winding on, rather than the digital automatic wind on....must be showing my age.
Bindi & Chandler for the Australian Women's Weekly magazine, November 2017 issue
Bindi Irwin & Chandler Powell
thanks to Qantas Link Magazine for the feature story on the Royal Flying Doctor Service, published in the September/October issue.
the Royal Flying Doctor Service
"Bindi Irwin" for The Australian Women's Weekly Magazine. Russell Shakespeare 2017
today's Cover
"Crowded Prayer, Varanasi, India" ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Crowded Prayer
"Jumpers, Tallebudgera Ck" ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
Jumpers
"the Leap of Faith" ©Russell Shakespeare 2017
the Leap
"The Wait" . Munda, Solomon Islands ©Russell Shakespeare
Munda, Solomon Islands
Shearers at Gundoo Station ©Russell Shakespeare