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    THE ART OF ADVENTURE

    Nov 26, 2019 7 minutes
    BY MIKE O’CONNOR

    Dream job’ is an expression that likely means something different to just about everyone. After all, ask a journalist what their dream job would be, and they might tell you it’s working for anything from a TV network to National Geographic.

    But for photographers, the thought of travelling to the world’s most beautiful places, and then supporting their family while doing it, might just be something they can all can agree on. For Darran Leal, it’s something he’s been doing ever since he first picked up a Kodak box brownie as a young man in 1975.

    “We’d taken a school trip to Carnarvon Gorge in Central Queensland, and I pulled out the Bakelite camera from my bag. The teacher laughed at such an old camera, right in front of my friends!” You would think this would put any budding photographer off, but it actually motivated me into photography and was a real turning point.”

    Born in Queensland, Leal would be the first to admit he fell into photography, with a career in sports, cricket, rugby or league a much more

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