Time Imprints - Ron Walker & Maddie Walcher

Name: Time Imprints - Ron Walker & Maddie Walcher
Address: Caboolture South, QLD, 4510, AU
Telephone: +61438722859

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Time Imprints - Ron Walker & Maddie Walcher

Maddie was Ron's first student and is now an accomplished photographer in her own right. Lessons may also be held online via Zoom with anyone in the world

Together they teach photography in-person around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.

08/09/2026

I’ve been to Brisbane Riverfire ✈️ 🎆 a few times over the last decade and it has never disappointed. This year was no exception.

I'd seen the F/A-18 putting on a display over the sea at the Pacific Airshow, but watching one at Riverfire is a completely different experience. Over an airfield or the ocean there’s plenty of open sky around it. Here it comes roaring up the Brisbane River, banking hard as the river winds through the city, hemmed in by skyscrapers on either side.

That setting gives you a real sense of its speed, scale and manoeuvrability — especially when you notice all the people watching from their balconies in the first photo.

And then, after several passes by the F/A-18, Brisbane finished the night the way Riverfire should: more than 20 minutes of fireworks lighting up the river and the city skyline. 🎇🌃

Swipe to trade jet noise for fireworks. 👉

~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: I rotated this frame in post so the buildings lean with the plane, adding a stronger sense of speed and movement.

Bonus 📷 quick tip: Expose for the brightest fireworks and let the city fall a little dark — you’ll keep more colour and detail in the bursts.

05/09/2026

We had barely left our Airbnb on the Di**le Peninsula when we had to pull over.
A huge wall of cloud was spilling over the mountains and slowly pouring down into the valley below. My dad called it a “cloud glacier” and honestly, that was the perfect description. It looked like a river of cloud flowing over the mountains and into the bright green Irish countryside 💚 Sheep dotted the fields below, making the whole scene feel even more quintessentially Ireland 🐑 We were all a little giddy standing there trying to take it in. It was one of those moments where you just know you have to stop, even though you have a whole day of exploring ahead. We couldn’t find a great viewpoint where we first pulled over, so we continued along to Minard Castle. From there, we finally found the perspective we were looking for and watched the clouds continue to pour over the mountains.
~ by Maddie Walcher
📷 Quick Tip - Take the shot as soon as you see it in case it’s your only chance. But then reassess and if time allows search for better compositions.
• Wild Atlantic Way • Ireland landscapes • Irish coastline • dramatic cliffs • travel photography • landscape photography • Ireland travel • Wild Atlantic Way • sea cliffs Ireland

03/09/2026

At first glance, it’s difficult to judge the scale of this sea stack. Then you notice the birds.

Those tiny white specks scattered across Langsamur give away just how substantial this great lump of volcanic rock really is 🪨

What makes this photograph even more interesting to me now is what happened after I took it in April 2025.

Less than a year later, the Atlantic dramatically reshaped Reynisfjara, stripping huge quantities of black sand from parts of the beach. The stack, of course, remained standing. But the wave breaking through the foreground suddenly feels rather appropriate.

The Atlantic that can rearrange a beach in a matter of days has been working on this coastline for thousands of years — exploiting weaknesses, widening cracks and gradually carving rock away until formations like this are left standing offshore.

It looks immensely solid. But the ocean is still working on it. 🌊

~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: Don’t boost all the colour just because a scene looks muted. I selectively brought out the green in the wave, letting it stand against the black rock and grey sea.

01/09/2026

Iceland, like many sub-Arctic landscapes, can sometimes look as though someone has turned the colour down. 🌫️

That was exactly what it felt like the day we visited Brúarfoss. Grey sky, black volcanic rock, bare vegetation and a dusting of snow. 🌨️❄️

Imagine, then, coming across this extraordinary ribbon of blue 💦 running straight through it. 💙

And that blue isn’t simply a reflection of the sky — as the rather grey Icelandic weather makes obvious. Very clear water absorbs more light from the red end of the spectrum, allowing the blues to dominate. Against the black volcanic rock 🩵🖤 and an almost monochrome winter landscape, the effect is extraordinary.
~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: If a colour isn’t helping the composition, ask whether the image would be stronger without it.

29/08/2026

While visiting my family in Melbourne for a few days, I really wanted to make time for the Melbourne Zoo. I’d been seeing online all these videos of their 4 baby snow leopard cubs and since they are one of my favourite animals I just couldn’t miss an opportunity to see them! Unfortunately I only got to see them for a few minutes but still they were so adorable! I’ll put some footage in our stories for you 😉
But I actually ended up spending quite a lot of my day watching the gorillas instead 🦍 And I’m so glad I did! They were so fascinating to watch 😍 Each seemed to have their own personality and way of moving around the enclosure. This female really caught my attention as she sat with her shoulders slumped forward, looking incredibly thoughtful and expressive 🧐 I watched her for a while and managed to capture this moment before she suddenly jumped up and took off after another female!
I really enjoyed myself. There was something pretty special about having the whole day to myself, camera in hand, just wandering around and photographing whatever caught my eye 📸
~ by Maddie Walcher
📷 Quick Tip - When photographing animals, watch their body language. Waiting for a relaxed pose or expressive moment can create a much more powerful portrait than simply capturing them looking at the camera.

27/08/2026

From citrus-tree pest to one of southeast Queensland’s most spectacular butterflies. 🦋

This female Orchard Swallowtail was photographed last Wednesday at the Bribie Island Butterfly House, where the backlight caught her wings and revealed just how translucent they really are.

👉 Swipe across and you’ll see another female Orchard Swallowtail I photographed in Morayfield a few years ago. ....
.. Same species, completely different encounter — and a very different view of those beautiful markings.

There’s a nice irony to this butterfly. Its caterpillars feed on citrus, so the creature nibbling away at someone’s lemon tree 🍋🌳 may eventually become one of the largest and most striking butterflies we see around southeast Queensland.

👉 Swipe to see her in a very different light.

~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: Try positioning yourself so the light comes through a butterfly’s wings. Backlighting can reveal their translucence and create colours and detail you won’t see with the light behind you.

25/08/2026

You’ll often hear that there’s little point trying to photograph landscapes in the harsh midday sun 🌞

That’s not particularly helpful advice if midday is the only time you are able to get out and shoot 🤔

We’d gone to Springbrook hoping to photograph some waterfalls, but the conditions were about as wrong as they could be: bright sun, hard contrast and glare everywhere. For waterfalls, I’d much rather have a rainy, overcast day ☁️☂️

But that didn’t mean there were no photographs to be made.

The same sunlight that was making the waterfalls difficult was breaking through the rainforest canopy and creating isolated pools of light among the shadows. When I saw it catch this little fern above the valley 🌿 suddenly the ‘bad’ light became the reason for the photograph.

It’s something we often remind our students. You won’t always be able to photograph at sunrise, sunset or under perfect clouds. Learn what the light in front of you does well, and there’s usually a photograph somewhere.

~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: Don’t ask, ‘Is this good light?’ Ask, ‘What is this light good for?’

09/06/2026

This scene was too wide for my widest lens. I had to stitch six images together just to fit it all into the frame.

Even then, it only hints at what it feels like to stand here.

Places like this affect me in a way that’s hard to explain. I become very aware of how small I am.

And strangely, I find that comforting.

This landscape didn’t happen by accident. Neither did the universe beyond it. Standing there, I’m reminded of the One who created it all. If he can sustain a universe of such unimaginable scale, then I know we’ll be alright if we rely on him.

Maybe that’s why I find places like this so restorative.

~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: You don’t need a wide-angle lens to get panoramic images. A series of overlapping photos can be stitched together to capture scenes far wider than any single frame.

06/06/2026

Slieve League is one of those places where it’s so hard to show the immense scale of it all 😮 Located on Ireland’s rugged northwest coast, these cliffs are almost 600 metres tall, making them nearly three times higher than the much more famous Cliffs of Moher. Yet they feel so wild and untouched. When we went there were no big masses of crowds funnelled into a single viewpoint. Instead you can wander the cliff tops, follow the ridges and explore at your own pace 😍
We spent several hours here and barely scratched the surface. Along the way we passed sheep and tiny lambs grazing right near the edge, completely unbothered by the enormous drop beside them 🐑
One of the biggest challenges with places like this though is showing just how vast they really are. When three tour boats appeared far below the scale finally became more obvious. From the top they looked like tiny specks on the ocean, dwarfed by the cliffs towering above them. Seeing those boats against the landscape really drove home just how massive this place is.
~ by Maddie Walcher
📷 Quick Tip - Look for scale markers like boats, people, or buildings to help viewers understand the true size of the scene.
Slieve League Cliffs • County Donegal • Wild Atlantic Way • Ireland landscapes • Irish coastline • dramatic cliffs • travel photography • landscape photography • Ireland travel • Wild Atlantic Way • sea cliffs Ireland

04/06/2026

Fossá isn't a pretty waterfall.

This is the Faroe Islands, after all. There are no forests, no ferns, nothing to soften the landscape. Just water carving its way through dark basalt cliffs forged by ancient volcanic eruptions 🌋

I leaned into that feeling in the edit.

The cliffs aren't really this black 🪨 but that's beside the point. What stayed with me was the mood: cold, raw and powerful 👊 So rather than process the scene as it appeared, I processed it as I experienced it.

Most waterfall photographs aim for beauty. I wanted Fossá to feel menacing. Not evil, but ancient. The kind of place that reminds you nature isn't always gentle or welcoming. Sometimes it's indifferent to your presence.
~ Photo by Ron Walker
📷 Quick tip: A photograph doesn't always have to be a literal record of a place. Sometimes the most compelling edit is the one that communicates what it felt like to stand there.

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