Due to demand, there will now be a third evening of Lindsay Cupper's session. This will be Thursday 20th August at 7.30 pm at Mildura Arts Centre.
Tickets are $5.00 each - available from the Merbein Centenary Office, 91 Commercial Street, Merbein. Office open every day, including weekends, 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. Office phone: 0439 384 481.
Opportunity to view amazing footage captured by Lindsay Cupper in his Bird Film Documentaries. See an Exhibition of Lindsay's photographic works "imaginature", a chance to meet Lindsay and hear about his "photographic adventures".
In 1977 a film crew from the ABC Natural History Unit joined Lindsay and his father, Jack, on a photographic expedition to the Strzelecki track in the far north of South Australia. The Cuppers were almost midway through their seven year quest to find and photograph all 24 species of Australia's birds of prey. Though spending most of the month-long expedition in front of the camera, it was here that Lindsay first used a movie camera. (To capture a shot the ABC cameraman was unwilling to attempt!) And it was here that Lindsay decided that one day he would be a cinematographer.
Excerpts from that historic documentary will introduce Lindsay and the specialised equipment he and Jack developed (such as the transportable, telescopic 25 metre tower that so terrified the ABC cameraman), then will follow some of the fascinating wildlife behaviour that Lindsay captured during more than a quarter century as a freelance natural history cameraman.
See the "Hunters of the Skies" which got Lindsay's career off to a flying start, the "Ocean Wanderers" which took him to the Sub-Antarctic, "Wild Bush Budgies" that took two years to capture, "The Trials of Life" that were included in Sir David Attenborough's memoirs, "Pelicans of the Ghost Lake" which gave Lindsay grey hair and other stress-related afflictions. Experience "Island Life" on tropical Christmas Island, visit "Wild Australasia", get re-acquainted with the Aussies in Attenborough's "Life of Birds", and journey across "Australia - Land of Parrots."
LINDSAY CUPPER
Wildlife Photographer
From an early age, growing up on the edge of the bush at Yelta, west of Merbein, Lindsay developed a keen interest in wildlife - particularly birds. By adulthood his passion was birds of prey.
In 1973, the purchase of his first camera enabled him to begin working towards his ambition - to photograph all of Australia's 24 raptor species.
In 1974 he was joined in this endeavour by his father, Jack. Together, between operating their respective horticultural properties, they spent a good deal of the next seven years searching for their sometimes rare and elusive quarry, until in 1981 they published their book Hawks in Focus.
Lindsay then traded his still camera for a movie camera, and for more than 25 years has travelled widely, filming wildlife documentaries for television. His work has taken him from the Crozet Islands in the sub-antarctic to tropical Christmas island, through much of southern Africa, and of course, all over Australia.
He has worked on many of the highly acclaimed programmes produced by National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and the BBC (including two major series by David Attenborough.)
His association with the ABC Natural History Unit began in 1977 - in front of the camera rather than behind it! It was then that he first thought of becoming a cinematographer, and though 10 years were to pass before he began filming for the ABC, he has been a major contributor to most ABC wildlife documentaries since that time. In 2006 he teamed up with his idol, cameraman / producer David Parer, to film the last documentary to be produced by the Natural History Unit, the multi-award winning: Australia - Land of parrots.
Many of the programmes Lindsay worked on have received major awards but his greatest personal accolades are an Australian Film Institute award for Excellence in Cinematography, and an Australian Photographic Society Nature Award.
After 25 years of concentrating solely on movie work, Lindsay has recently returned to still photography, but hawks are no longer his only focus - all aspects of Australia's natural treasures are inspiration for his Images of Nature.
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