Sydney Opera House, any ordinary day

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, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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