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Julie Ewing
Australia Nominee People Professional "Many tales to tell" This old Vietnamese lady in a fishing village would have many stories, if only we spoke the same language. Having grown up with a dad who loved photography, I am extremely fortunate to have the largest amount of quality photographs I know of any of my friends born in the same era. All of these were developed and printed in our own darkroom in our house. Many a time I remember saying, "come on dad", "hurry up", testament in the odd picture in the collection with the sullen face and full of attitude! I wouldn't swap those photos for anything, they mean the world to me and all the history they contain in each and every image brings back so many beautiful memories. Years ago, when we still had a working darkroom at Lifeworks photography, I borrowed dad's meticulously filed negatives and printed copies of many, creating albums for my siblings of our early lives, these albums are priceless! My passion is continued in our WMG™ albums @ Lifeworks, created for our customers with as much love and care. At the age of 9yrs I was given a camera dad picked up at a junk shop and repaired, we travelled from our home in Sydney to travel around Victoria for the school holidays, I photographed several rolls of B/W film and on returning from holidays processed these in the darkroom and thus the beginnings of my passion for photography. I wasn't to pursue my photographic dreams for another 14 years, but took many photographs in those years, a camera was never far from my hands. (we are talking way before iphones were even thought of!) Having now been involved in the Photographic industry for some 22 years, I have seen unbelievable changes but I can honestly say....there is no better job! Sure it has it's difficulties, challenges, highs and lows, technology has brought rapid changes to the photographic industry. However it is the valued customers who have not altered, the joy I see on clients faces when they see their portraits and those of the ones they love most dearly and the emotional response of absolute joy and overwhelming love, there is no other place I would rather be. The relationships I have built with clients over the years, some dating back to their weddings and others in more recent years, and now as I watch their children grow are some of the most beautiful friendships I treasure. I LOVE my job! |
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