Sydney Opera House, any ordinary day

Written By Campbell Mattinson

An unremarkable photo of the Sydney Opera House, taken in 2018 on a Fujifilm X-T20, between a day-time wine commitment and a night-time wine commitment.

I’ve long had a fascination for unremarkable photos. The Sydney Opera House is never unremarkable, and the fact that there’s a fire somewhere on the north side of Sydney adds a little to the image. My favourite type of unremarkable image is the “casual crowd” kind. The long shadows here, the bright afternoon light, the people taking photographs, the general scatter and the impression that this is any ordinary day in the life of one of the world’s most remarkable sites; these are the reasons I like this image.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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