About Don Burt
I developed a strong passion for photography when I was eight years of age using my mother’s Brownie Box Camera. My very first picture came back from Kodak marked as being suitable for enlargement. By nine I was processing my own film with my mother timing the process in a blacked out kitchen with a luminous clock. By 18 years of age (with a new camera of course) I started taking weddings for friends and not long after I was taking weddings and portraits for paying customers.
I joined the Australian Army in 1968, I went to Vietnam in 1970. While in Vietnam I bought a Super 8 movie camera and started taking footage of my Vietnam experience. A public relations officer was impressed with my work and recommended me to become an Army Public Relations photographer. When I returned from Vietnam in 1971 I applied for and was accepted as an Army Public Relations Photographer. During this time I commenced a four year commercial photography course at the Canberra Technical College and achieved a top student medallion in my third year.
My Vietnam footage now resides in the archives of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
I left the Army In 1974 and started my own business as a photographer under the name of Weston Photographics, and ran this business successufuly for many years.
I developed an interest in people and obtained degrees in psychology and social work. I worked as youth worker for about eight years then fourteen and a half years as a Child Protection Officer.
In 2009 through the encouragement of friends and others I was drawn back to my first love - professional photography.
I joined the Australian Army in 1968, I went to Vietnam in 1970. While in Vietnam I bought a Super 8 movie camera and started taking footage of my Vietnam experience. A public relations officer was impressed with my work and recommended me to become an Army Public Relations photographer. When I returned from Vietnam in 1971 I applied for and was accepted as an Army Public Relations Photographer. During this time I commenced a four year commercial photography course at the Canberra Technical College and achieved a top student medallion in my third year.
My Vietnam footage now resides in the archives of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
I left the Army In 1974 and started my own business as a photographer under the name of Weston Photographics, and ran this business successufuly for many years.
I developed an interest in people and obtained degrees in psychology and social work. I worked as youth worker for about eight years then fourteen and a half years as a Child Protection Officer.
In 2009 through the encouragement of friends and others I was drawn back to my first love - professional photography.
