About Us

G'day, and welcome to our site.

My name is Richard Wheat and my passion is for large and detailed images of my beautiful home - Australia. Images that impart to the viewer something similar to my own response to the original scene.

I live, and photograph in Western Australia - hence the name for this site. It wasn't until I had the business running that I realised I had an annoying problem: Most West Australian's, when seeing the name for the first time, think it's a gardening site! Well, I always did need to revisit things while learning. Maybe one day we'll change it.

The we, is my wife Anne and I. Anne also has a passion for beautiful images and does some photography herself. Anne is an accomplished flutist and also helps run the business. I often rely on her artistic judgement which is very good, and different to mine.

I started out in music when young, but was side tracked into computers while in high school and have been there ever since in one way or another. All my working life I have been immersed in a world of logic and clear cut answers. Outside work I dabbled in music but my passion, as mentioned above, has always been detailed images. I think this passion may have started with a painting my parents had on our living room wall when I was very young. It portrayed ocean waves crashing onto a sandy beach in the late evening. I always marvelled at the reality of the image and level of detail achieved by the painter. My emotional response was real and compelling.

I started photography with 620 film and a box brownie, spent a long period with 35mm film, moved to medium format when completely frustrated with the limited print sizes I could produce, and have recently moved to large format 4x5 (sheet film). I use a digital camera to scout out my large format shots, and also for some landscapes, however my main photographic capture process still utilises film. I scan the film and use a completely digital "dark-room" to process my images and produce prints. My black and white images are usually captured on black and white film which I develop myself.

If you are out and about in Western Australia, and see a man with a back-pack, tripod, and hat with crocodile teeth, looking hot and bothered (the pack is heavy and Australia is hot), it's probably me out looking for another shot. By the way, the hat and teeth have a longish history and I wouldn't be without them.

I have been observing the almost infinite variety and detail in nature for many years now. The design work and programming that has gone into a single leaf on a single tree is amazing - and we don't understand it. I believe it was all created by a superior being. I also believe that this superior being would, by definition, be beyond our understanding and outside/beyond His own creation. I seek to honour Him with my photography.

As it says in the Bible: "From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see His invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature." Holy Bible : New Living Translation. 1997. Tyndale House: Wheaton, Ill.

If you would like to chat or draw on my experience with particular equipment feel free to email me. Equipment I have recent experience with:

• Canon 5D MkII DSLR
• Mamiya RB67 medium format cameras and lenses
• Various Canon film and digital cameras
• Gaeorsi G617 panoramic camera
• Shen Hao 4x5 Field Camera
• Art Panorama 6x17 back for 4x5 camera
• Shen Hao 6x12 back for 4x5 camera
• HP Z3100 large format printer
• Epson Stylus Photo R1800 Printer
• Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Printer
• Epson V700 Scanner
• Doug Fisher Medium Format Film Holders
• NEC Spectraview 3090 Monitor
• Novaspray HVLP Spray Systems

I spend a lot of time in the West Australian bush, particularly in the Perth Hills area. Please enjoy our images.