This image – of a herd of cows, in a haze of smoke, in a dry creek, in summer, in North-east Victoria – is my most successful image, at least in terms of financial reward. It’s not much of an image. But I submitted it to a stock photo agency and it seemed to strike a climate-change chord.
Cows in a dry creek bed. Image Copyright Campbell Mattinson.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
