Australian documentary and fine art photographer
Nick Bedford is a fine art and documentary photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.
Well, I finally shot my sixtieth roll of almost entirely Kodak TRI-X 400 black and white film since starting all this film nonsense at the start of 2017. What a ride. As for me and colour, we have unfinished business.
Read MoreIt feels great to be shooting Tri-X again, from street photography to portraits to whatever else. I missed the process, the grain, the texture and the craft of it all. After coming back from New Zealand, the weather has been hot and muggy, so I've not gotten out for hiking at all despite plans to. Thankfully, it's Autumn now.
Read MoreI have been sitting on this post for a long while due to not shooting much black and white. These are a few months old or more but here they are none the less.
Read MoreThat doubt about why I was here has since disappeared, thanks to the experiences I had on that trek as well as my brief time in Milford Sound. I made a few unplanned landscape photographs on the trek, enjoyed the stunning views and delighted in conversations with other travellers, and that has rekindled my love for this kind of adventure without the need for social media to drive it.
Read MoreI quit Facebook, and Twitter, and Snapchat all within a week and to put it in simple terms, I feel human again. I had lived my entire twenties with Facebook and Twitter, compounded by the newer social media networks that followed in their wake during that decade. I lived my entire twenties as a young, connected, digital adult, never bored and never fully present in the here and now.
Read MoreA poem about the experience of climbing snowy mountains at dawn for sunrise.
Read MoreHere is a poem I wrote about the joy of making new travel plans.
Read MoreEarlier in the year, I discovered Nick Mayo's work on Instagram (@nickexposed) as well as his fantastic YouTube channel. We ended up doing a print swap and the frame print has been sitting on my workstation desktop ever since.
Read MoreIt wasn't until this summer that I begun to try to work through it, accept how it made me felt and work on what I can to get me to the other side. It's a situational problem for me. One of the activities that makes me feel joy becomes almost impossible without camping right next to my location
Read MoreThis is probably my first real poem about how my love for winter stems from the area I have lived in almost my entire life. I hope it makes sense, and I hope that you might know also feel that way.
Read MoreEver since ramping up my landscape photography gear and getting out onto the trails more often with a more complete camera and filming kit, I've been aware that stuffing my LowePro Nova 140 AW II into my day back "sack" bag hasn't been a very good way of going about my hikes.
Read MoreWithin the city I live, I am constantly presented with the kinds of lifestyles that I simply have no desire to embrace and never really did, though it wasn't until recently that I realised this with such clarity.
Read MoreIt's hard to play this down as simply hyperbole, but my brief three day road trip throughout the South Island of New Zealand was a life changing experience and has had a profound effect on my outlook on life and for the direction in which it will travel from now on.
Read MoreAs I mentioned in my previous essay post, Embracing Landscape Photography, it's easy to become inspired by other people's lives of adventure and travel. Until now, I never had a great reason to produce a video about something. Most of my efforts outside the series of music videos I've produced have been quite random in topic and style. Why now?
Read MoreMillions can all experience fear of missing out in unison, and that can't be a good thing. Watching other people do what you're not can be a source of anxiety amongst people, and I'm no stranger to its effects, but knowing that this is a thing, can I justify my own insatiable need for wanderlust?
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