I developed a strong passion for photography when I was eight 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 as an Electronics System Fitter with the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) then 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 remained in this position for three years. My Vietnam footage now resides in the archives of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

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. I left the Army in 1974 and went into my own business as a photographer under the name of Weston Photographics. I ran this business successfully for six years then left to pursue other things. I developed an interest in poeple and obtained degrees in psychology and social work. I worked as youth worker for about eight years then fourteen and a half years in child protection. Over the last few years I have been gradually been drawn back to photography through the encouragement of friends and others.

In 2009 I was ready to retire and have now returned to my old interest - professional photography.



Please contact me:
Email: don@donburtphotography.com
or Phone: (02) 6161-7343 Mobile 0409 597 343