(Photo of brochure below taken with digital and processed in Lightroom) This job looks boring at first glance, I’ll concede that. However it was very worthwhile. Government jobs are very well paid in my experience, and this was the biggest one I did. Documenting aboriginal carvings in riverbeds, rare species of gum tree, the local tourist attractions (the Hunter Valley Vineyards, always fun photographing there), big trucks that use the old road, big traffic jams, old mining sites, and the list went on. Shame I didn’t do the helicopter aerial shot here on the cover! The process of getting jobs like this is a tender. I remember putting a large price tag on our demo images and dropping in the disk just an hour before the tender closed in Sydney. I was very pleased when I was later told that I was the most expensive accepted photographer they hired and put on the panel. If you have time to gather suitable images and enter tenders, I highly recommend it.
