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The ‘slow’ approach to making an imageJOHN Street (right) made a career producing technically perfect photographic images.

Fashion and advertising were his forte.

His folio goes back to the swinging 1960s in London where a single film, Blow Up, blurred the image and celebrity of those behind and in front of the camera.

“London the 60s was a different ball game,” Street says as he sips a coffee at an outdoor table in Hampton St, Hampton.

An early job as an assistant to a professional photographer saw him earn a lucky break.

Ilford was running a market promotion by handing out cameras and a roll of film with a 10

thousand pound prize for the best images.

“He gave me the camera because he was too busy and the shots I took won the prize. Of course the credit [and prize] had to go to him because he’s the one Ilford gave the camera to.

“But he told me I was good and said the only advice he could make was to study the work of Rembrandt.”

A job for Rolex involved taking several shots of man’s first moon landing superimposed inside a watch face.

A circle was cut from the glass to ensure there were no reflections and the hands were precisely fixed to reveal the brand name.

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CEO defendedKEVIN Spencer has told Bay-side Council that he found it repugnant of council to reap-point CEO Adrian Robb with-out looking for other candi-dates.

He told council’s Decem-ber meeting that the CEO’s performance review “should be available for community scrutiny”.

Mr Spencer was told that the contract was a personnel matter which “may also be seen as a contractual matter, both of which are provided for in the Local Government Act as confidential…”

As reported by The Citizen in the December 2011 Mr Robb was reappointed to his $280,00 a year job for anoth-er year after council decided against advertising his posi-tion.

Mr Robb took over the posi-tion in mid-2008 and his new contract comes into force in June this year.

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when it saw the subsequent press advertisement was that those particular moon landing shots originated in Chelsea, a suburb of London.

Street’s London agent was David Puttnam, who also represented David Bailey and Brian Duffy. Puttnam soon turned to the film industry, directing turning to film and directing a string of acclaimed moves, including Bugsy Mallone, Midnight Express, The Duellists, Chariots of Fire, Local Hero, Memphis Belle, Meeting Venus and, with Roland Joffe, The Killing Fields and The Mission.

Photography, through the advantages of the single lens reflex camera and faster, more colour correct film stock, entered the art world.

With an eye for composition and detail and a ready understanding of the tolerances of film, Street gained recognition, and ongoing work.

He was a natural. He was surrounded with glamour and the demands on his skill were that he promote fashion and products. Twig-gy and Jean Shrimpton were just two of the many models posing in front of his lens.

Lighting was the key to his craft.

He too moved into moving pictures, shooting 35mm advertisements and taking jobs throughout Europe.

But for all its lure and glamour, the world of commercial photography also had a major shortcoming: the need to please the client.

In the end, decisions on which shot was used depended on the wishes of a client.

Street arrived in Australia in 1972 and “got work as soon as I landed”.

But a five-way heart bypass operation ended his advertising career 15 years ago.

Now living in Bayside, Street has basically re-invented himself as a photographic artist.

He produces images directly onto photographic paper from an ultra large format camera he fashioned

‘Slow’ approach to making an image with light

John Street with his self-made “camera” and the images it pro-duces.

ARTIST Alvaro Castagnet is “very excited and eager” about sharing his book, Be-yond Technique: Painting With Passion.

“I have tried to answer all the questions that I am often asked by you,” told a gather-ing last month at Jenny Pi-han Fine Art in Hampton.

He said his book includ-ed much of his work, rang-ing from street scenes, boat scenes, interiors, facades, landscapes and rainy days.

The descriptive captions expand on the key concepts explained in the main six

chapters.“I have also included start

to finish, exciting step-by-step demonstrations display-ing a variety of subjects in-cluding a landscape, a boat scene, a streetscape, and a still life of my own studio in Montevideo.”

Castagnet is sure his book “will show you how to make great paintings by going be-yond technique and achiev-ing magic in a passionate way”.

Born in Montevideo, Uru-guay, Castagnet attended the National School of Arts and

Artist shares his passionArt talk: Alvaro Castagnet speaks about his art and publications at Jenny Pihan Fine Art.

later studied at the Fine Arts University.

His watercolor technique reached its highest level in Australia, where he had lived for 20 years.

His art has been acclaimed throughout the world, in-cluding three awards and medals from the American Watercolor Society. In 2010 he was awarded at the Shang-hai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibi-tion.

He has been holding solo exhibitions since 1985, pub-lished two books - Watercolor Painting with Passion, and Beyond Technique: Painting With Passion, made a series of The Passionate Painter DVDs and has designed his own set of brushes and other art materials.

Castagnet is a contribu-tor to national and interna-tional art magazines and is a respected international speaker and judge. He also lectures, demonstrates and conducts workshops.

Castagnet’s style is de-scribed as “brisk impression-ist” with an ability to capture the vitality of a scene.

Traveling the world, paint-ing “plein air”, has contrib-uted to his developing a flu-ent and distinctive style.

Paintings by Alvaro Castag-net, his latest book Beyond Technique: Painting With Passion and his three teach-ing DVDs ($5 discount for readers of The Hampton Citi-zen) are available at Jenny Pihan Fine Art, 593A Hamp-ton St, Hampton.

from a litho camera used by the publishers of the Melway street directory.

The unique camera has given him a new freedom of expression. It has liberated his art form, allowing him to make statements in the abstract.

A fine grade mirror and $10,000 Sneider lens project the one-off images onto the 51 x 61 centimetre sheets of paper. The setup is carried on a tripod that would once have been found in a com-mercial television studio.

Long exposures made with numerous flashes of light create deeply hued images.

Street says he is “painting with light”.

Cutouts, flowers, leaves, photographic images and found objects mounted on parallel layers of glass en-able him to create his mean-ingful abstracts.

Street imports his paper and chemicals from London, but fears the source may dry up as film as a medium becomes a thing of the past in the face of digital technol-ogy.

Undaunted, he believes “glass may be the answer”.

But that is the future, for now John Street’s “slow photography” is being exhib-ited until the end of Febru-ary at The Studio Space, 473 Hampton St, Hampton.

A meet the artist night will be held 6-9 on Thursday 16 February.

Call 9521 8577 for details.

BAYSIDE councillors have been asked if they should be taught planning law follow-ing the high number of their decisions being overturned by the Victorian Civil Admin-istrative Tribunal.

In the past two years 31 of 35 planning refusals by council have been allowed af-ter VCAT hearings.

Council’s own planners had recommended approval in each case, but councillors decided rejected their advice.

Lawyers were hired to rep-resent council in nine of the

cases, but council has told ratepayer Mr CP Williams that it does not keep records of the cost of individual VCAT cases.

Mr Williams asked if four councillors would have been better off having lessons in planning law rather than spending $5900 each to at-tend a Australian Institute of Company Directors course.

He was told that “council-lors draw on a range of ex-perience and expertise when exercising their decision making power”.

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HUNDREDS of Bayside resi-dents and local dignitaries gathered at council’s Corpo-rate Centre in Sandringham on Thursday 26 January for the Australia Day celebra-tions.

The celebrations started at 9am with a flag raising ceremony, followed by a citi-zenship ceremony where 61

people from 19 countries be-came Australian citizens.

The citizenship ceremo-ny was followed by the an-nouncement of Bayside’s Australia Day Awards and of-ficial proceedings concluded with a sausage sizzle.

Self employed caterer Bill Mirabito, of Hampton, is Ba-side’s Citizen of the Year.

National day: Official ceremonies on Australia includedwelcoming new citizens and naming award winners.

Awards, new citizens share the spotlighton our national day

BAYSIDE Council last year received about 500 requests for help related to flooding.

In answer to a question at its December meeting council said all drains and pits in the municipality are inspected and cleaned “on a regular basis”, some monthly.

Extra or grated pits were being installed in critical ar-eas.

Seventeen drains have been identified as “urgent priority” and council is spending $1.2 million this financial year to conduct design analysis and identify improvements.

Flood mapping will begin next next financial year to create a building overlay for council’s drainage system.

“...While the current drainage system is based on historic rainfall and storm events, council engineers are now using a design in-tensity increased by 30 per cent to allow for the affects of climate change.”

Works have started to re-place an old drain along the north side of Holyrood St, from Avondale St to Hamp-ton St.

Council has warned of “some disruption to traffic” and parking in Holyrood St during the day.

Construction is due to be completed by the end of this month, February.

For further information, call the city works manag-er, Samantha Krull on 9599 4444.

Mr Mirabito has for many years contributed to the Bay-side area through several welfare and community or-ganisations.

He has conducted the an-nual Red Shield appeal for the Salvation Army through-out the City of Bayside, coor-dinating 150 volunteers for the past 11 years.

Although he has collected donations during the appeal he is recognised for having the ability to bring together volunteers to be involved in this event.

Mr Mirabito has fought to save Hampton RSL from clos-ing by encouraging many of the 500 members to sign up.

He is a life member of the Hampton RSL, Hampton Rov-ers Amateur Football Club and the Hampton Central Cricket Club.

Some years ago Mr Mi-rabito organised and bought a special chair lift van and wheelchair for a four-year-old boy who suffered from mus-cular dystrophy and more recently raised money for a two-year-old boy who needed treatment for an eating and breathing disorder.

Mr Mirabito organised a dinner and auction and raised more than $61,000 to pay the airfares for the boy and his family and the treat-ment for the boy in Austria.

Bayside’s Young Citizen of the Year, Elle Willersdorf-Green from Highett,

has a strong commitment to improving activities and life experiences for young people in the community, in particular the improvement of services for young people.

In recent years she has been a member of Bayside Council’s youth advisory

group and has been a sup-porter or events and youth programs and was an ac-tive member of the National Youth Week Committee.

Elle is also a mentor at Sandringham College where she has shown photograph-ic, graphic design and event management skills.

The 2011 Zing Art Exhibi-tion coordinated by the San-dy Beach Centre and Central Bayside Community Health Services received the Com-munity Event of the Year award.

The exhibition was held at The Gallery @ Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre in Brighton and coincided with the Inter-national Day of People with Disabilities and provided an opportunity for people with a disability who live, work, or study in Bayside to exhibit their art work.

Former Bayside mayor Cr Alex del Porto presented the award describing the artwork as exceptional and said that he bought one of the paint-ings at the group’s first exhi-bition in 2010.

Retired architect Ken Ren-dell, of Beaumaris, received the Environment Individual award.

He was an early member of the Beaumaris Tree Pres-ervation Society, a group dedicated to the preserva-tion of the orginal heathland and treed environment. The group later became the Beau-maris Conservation Society.

Mr Rendell has maintained his involvement with sev-eral friends groups particu-larly the Gramatan Avenue and Long Hollow Heathlands groups and is a volunteer at the Bayside Community Nursery.

He prefers to walk, cycle or use public transport, demon-strating his belief in sustain-ability and reduced energy use.

Bayside’s Australia Day ambassador was Don Hyde, AM. He was guest speaker at this year’s ceremony and performed the flag raising ceremony with the mayor Cr Louise Cooper-Shaw.

Mr Hyde has been involved in the media for more than 40 years and was an AFL/VFL football commentator on ra-dio and television. In 2006 he was inducted into the MCG Media Hall of Fame and in 2007 was awarded life mem-bership of the Australian Football Media Association.

He was chairman of the Victorian Australia Day com-mittee for seven years (1992-1999) and a board member of the National Australia Day Council. Mr Hyde is a life ambassador for Austra-lia Day and over the past 10 years has visited 12 munici-palities as an ambassador.

He is also chairman of the Order of Australia Associa-tion in Victoria and in 2008 was named a Paul Harris Fel-low by the Rotary Founda-tion of Rotary International.

Calls for help flooded in

NEW research suggests ex-ercise early in life could fend off diabetes and heart disease, even for those pre-disposed to such diseases.

The study by Victoria Uni-versity’s Professor Glenn McConell and Melbourne University’s Associate Pro-fessor Mary Wlodek tested whether exercise could ‘re-program’ rats with a pre-disposition to diabetes and heart disease due to being born underweight.

In the trials on rats born small, those that exercised from five to nine weeks of age showed a small improve-ment in organ function at the end of that month, but remarkably, six months later their organs were the same as the healthy control group.

Another group of born

small rats were not exer-cised and showed no im-provement.

Professor McConell said a nine-week old rat correlat-ed roughly with a five-year-old child and a six-month-old rat with a young adult person.

“We think this means more activity for children and more physical educa-tion in school could really help set them up for better health later in life and even help those predisposed to diabetes and heart disease to re-program themselves in time to avoid it,” he said.

Trials were now planned with sheep; a larger mam-mal model with more simi-lar hormones to humans than rats. He said they would eventually like to try it on humans.

Exercise may help diabetes

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McKimm Tennis’ future vision for the Royal Avenue Tennis Centre

MCKIMM Tennis has been managing the Royal Avenue Tennis Centre since 2008 and in December 2011 won a new 10-year lease.

Husband and wife team Jenny and Tim McKimm said they were “very grateful” for support received during the tender process and now plan to spend $200,000 to “totally transform” the centre.

“As part of the lease we will be reconstructing all 14 courts, with each one having brand new lines, brand new nets and net posts and all fencing will be upgraded.”

Tim McKimm said other improvements over the next few months would include clearing weeds and dead trees from between the front and back courts to “assist

in linking the whole centre together and give spectators and players an additional area to view the courts”.

Mr McKimm has been coaching in the Bayside area for 27 years, including at St Leonard’s Tennis Club, Kost-ka Hall and St Leonard’s Col-lege.

Among its many tennis pro-grams McKimm Tennis offers children’s coaching and com-petition, women’s fitness/cardio tennis and women’s competition every weekday.

The Royal Avenue Tennis Centre at 30 Royal Av, San-dringham, has one of the largest ladies competitions in Melbourne.

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Tennis vision: Jenny and Tim McKimm have plans to upgrade the Royal Av, Sandringham, tennis courts.

SUMMER is warming up and Bayside residents have been warned to look out for ex-terminators wearing spotted outfits in their gardens.

Nature’s pest controllers, ladybirds, are most active in warm weather and are now out in force to care for your prized plants.

Backyard Buddies, a free program run by the Foun-dation for National Parks & Wildlife, says healthy popu-lations of ladybirds can do away with spraying.

“Ditch the chemicals and pesticides if you’ve got aphids in your garden. These sprays could unwittingly be getting rid of your best bug controller yet – the ladybird,” CEO Steve Corbett said.

“If given the chance lady-birds, also known as lady-bugs and lady beetles, will happily eat aphids, scale in-sects and mites.

“An adult ladybird can con-sume 2500 aphids during its lifetime. Ladybirds are thought to live for about two months, but some species can live for up to two years.”

Mr Corbett’s tips to attract ladybirds to gardens:n Avoid using even low toxic-ity environmentally-friendly insecticides such as pyre-thrum or garlic spray, as these will kill ladybirds.n Plant nectar and pollen-bearing native plants as lady-birds also eat flower nectar and plant material including fungus.n Mix up a brew of honey mixed with water and brew-er’s yeast and spread it in the garden.

Handle lady killer with care

n Put up with a few unwant-ed bugs in the garden if you want to see ladybirds as well. Ladybirds need a food source if they are going to visit, so be patient.n Water plants early in the morning as this gives lady-birds a drink and helps their feet to stick to leaves and stems.n Ladybirds prefer moist, warm conditions so mulch the garden to retain water.n Plants such as marigold, parsley, coriander, dill, fen-nel, alfalfa, zucchini, melons and cucumbers attract lady-birds. After you’ve harvested the vegies, leave the plants in the ground even after the leaves become mouldy. Look on the underside of a mouldy leaf and you may find little black critters with many legs – these are ladybird babies.

“Ladybirds start life as an egg, go through three larval stages, and turn into a pupa before finally becoming an adult,” Mr Corbett said.

“During her lifetime, a lady ladybird will lay up to 2000 eggs.

“Ladybird larvae look very different to adults and can sometimes be confused with other bugs including scale. If you have some unknown bugs in the garden, it’s best to leave them be as they could grow up to be gorgeous ladybirds.

Mr Corbett said some cul-tures believed ladybirds were lucky, while killing one was said to bring sadness and misfortune.

“The nursery rhyme ‘Lady-bird, ladybird, fly away home’ encourages children to catch the beetles and blow them on their way in return for a wish. It is thought this was a way of getting the children to disperse the beetles amongst the crops to destroy pests and avoid famine,” he said.

Ladybirds can be bought, but different ones eat different bugs, so buy the right ones for your garden from www.ecoor-ganicgarden.com.au or www.bugsforbugs.com.au.

Ladybirds should be re-leased after sunset or before sunrise as they are more likely to stay.

RESEARCH by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation has found that several types of Asian vegetables contain folate levels equal to or greater than spinach, making them one of the richest sources of folate.

The National Health and Medical Research Council dietary guidelines recommend a reg-ular intake of folate to meet daily nutritional requirements and the consumption of folate is important for pregnant women.

The research team, led by scientists at the Queensland Department of Employment, Eco-nomic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) used new technologies to measure the folate levels of 10 Asian vegetables including buk choy, choy sum and wombok and compared them to spinach.

“We know that Asian vegetables are being eaten by a growing number of Australians be-cause they look and taste great, and now we have research confirming another one of their positive health attributes,” RIRDC’s managing director Craig Burns said.

“The importance of folate in the diets of preg-nant women is commonly known, with many women increasing their folate intake during pregnancy to reduce the chance of spina bifida in their babies. As this report highlights, folate deficiency has been implicated in a number of disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, car-diovascular disease, osteoporosis, breast and

Asian veges full of folatecolon cancers, depression, dementia, cleft lip/palate and hearing loss.”

The research also points to mizuna, tat-soi, kang kong and snake beans as being sources of the important vitamin.

The ‘Folate content of Asian vegetables’ research report is available at www.rirdc.gov.au.

THE state government has given $5000 each to Hamp-ton and Brighton life saving clubs.

“Lifesavers assist in pro-viding a safe and enjoyable aquatic experience for all vis-itors to our beaches,” MP for Brighton Louise Asher said.

“Lifesaving clubs harness the support of local commu-nities and use a network of support services to ensure that safety of the nation’s wa-terway users.”

Ms Asher said Hampton

Life Saving Club was estab-lished in 1909 as a swim-ming club to cater for the holiday crowds arriving by car and train.

These days it patrols Hampton beach and provides educational and training pro-grams.

Ms Asher said Brighton Life Saving Club was lo-cated on one of Australia’s most photographed beaches, Dendy Beach, with its iconic colorful bathing boxes.

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MACQUARIE Dictionary has announced burqini as its Word of the Year for 2011.

The choice was made from the new words selected for inclusion in the annual up-date of the Macquarie Dic-tionary Online.

An online vote ended on 27 January 2012 with the over-all winning word selected by the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year committee chaired by the vice-chan-cellor of the University of Sydney, Dr Michael Spence. Other committee members include poet Les Murray, Macquarie Dictionary editor

Susan Butler and freelance journalist David Astle (the Dictionary Guy on SBS’s Let-ters and Numbers).

Burqini is defined as: noun a swimsuit designed for Mus-lim women, comprising leg-gings and a tunic top with a hood.

“Burqini seemed to be a very cute and successful coinage and what lay behind it was a fusion of culture, in an area of life which is so Australian… life on the beach,” Ms Butler said.

David Astle was “delighted by a word that has Q without U and ends with an I”.

Dictionary’s word of the year