About

Hello friends! My name is Amanda and I take pictures. I think about photography for a good percentage of my day but when I’m not doing that, I am teaching Year 1 students.
I have photographed many live bands, including U2, had Polaroid work featured in the book, For the Love of Light , have had photographs featured in Polaroid Notes from Chronicle Books and currently have photographs featured in Frankie magazine’s The Photo Album.
For 5 and something years I wrote a personal blog called Lypton Village, which fluctuated between my life and music photography. It then migrated into Mocking Bird. In 2008, I decided to stop writing and focus more on what inspires me in photography, so I started the blog, Paper Cameras. Not writing couldn’t last long and here we are at Mocking Bird (version 2).
Here at Mocking Bird (version 2) I write about photography, inspirations, creativity and how to capture that within your everyday. My partner and I moved to Canada this year so I am using Mocking Bird as a memoir of my life in Sydney and my new life in Vancouver.
Check out my articles on what to look for when buying a film camera , choosing a Polaroid camera and How to make dreamy, film like photos. There are more feature articles of this nature coming soon. Subscribe to the RSS feed so you won’t miss them.
Featured:
- Polaroid Notes by Chronicle Books.
- In the book, For the Love of Light: A Tribute to the art of Polaroid
- The Photo Album by Frankie Magazine.
- CNET
- NY Times blog
- Planet Eye
- Lost at E Minor
- Pia Jane Bijkerk
- Simply Hue
- Photoblogs.org Hall of Fame
- VFXY- Weekly Pick
- Shoptalk
- All Things Girl
- Blog on Photoblogs
- Photoblogs Awards: Nominated Best Post Processing and Best Oceanian 2007, nominated for Best Oceanian 2008.
- Schmap Seattle
- Schmap Canberra
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