This year of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the world turned upside down, so to go away for our normal holiday has to be re-thought.

These September school holidays I was meant to be taking my family to Thailand, seeing family there along with enjoying the heat, shopping and tourist sights (and of course taking photos with my holiday camera).

Instead ... we had some day trips around Tassie, and managed to get some work done at home. A long list of jobs was written and some have been done and others are on hold.

One of those jobs is I have been wanting is to digitise all our family's photos, then make a selection of images and create a book of memories for our son Tom.

So it's been a time to look over many photos, both of work, pleasure and family and I thought I'd share some more of my photo favourites from The Examiner with you.

I love listening to older people and their stories of life. I met Dora and Clarrie Andrews at Low Head, when they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. They shared the stories of how they met, became a family and lived their lives. Sometimes its hard to capture two lives in one photo, so with the aid of a phone and a old wedding photo, it captured the then and now easily.

With the V8 Supercars racing at Bathurst this weekend it seems fitting to have a legend among this collection. In 1988 the Australian touring car series came to Symmons Plains and Allan Moffat brought his Ford Sierra to compete. We were able to meet Allan and see his race car in preparation. So he gave us the thumbs up for Tassie.

From one legend to another, Tasmania's Marcus Ambrose had his Ford Falcon on the grid in 2005. Its is always exciting to photograph the V8s. Keeping an eye out everywhere for different angles and all the action.

Sometime the best pics are the ones that just happen, especially when having children as the subjects. Children from Beaconsfield participated in the annual book week parade. Here, one young man Blake Slatter dressed up as Captain America, walked across the road with good strong attitude, leading his friend Maddsion Evans as a unicorn in safety.

As many of you did, I also grew up watching Play School on ABC. All the stories and characters, Big Ted, B1 and B2, Jemima and of course Humpty Dumpty. Well one afternoon, I was allowed to look through the square magic window, (OK, it's rectangular,) of my cameras viewfinder and photograph the two presenters I grew up watching. Benita Collings and John Hambun cuddling B1 and my favourite character Big Ted. They presented Play School to a full house at the Launceston Casino of fans.

Campbell Town residents and businesses were frustrated when heavy rain turned their water brown and left mud in baths and sinks, after week long downpour of heavy rain with flooding. I found Julie Davis at the local pool, trying to clean away the mud and brown water in the pool. Unless you wanted a mud bath, I don't think swimming in there would have been fun.

It's always good when you can get your subjects to try something different. I managed to talk former Meander Valley mayor Craig Perkins into getting into a wheelie bin. The story was about the Hagley Farm school starting to reduce the school's waste footprint, and after they made a report on how much waste they gather, they then asked the Meander Valley council to help.

So Craig Perkins in his role as mayor, delivered three wheelie bins to the students. To make a great photo, and using a 10mm wide angle lens, Craig jumped in, and it was a success.

In August 2011, a friend of mine Terry Travers asked me to take some photos of one of his sailing colleagues, who wanted to sail solo around Australia in a catamaran. It sounded good, and when Terry flew me in his plane over Tassie's south west coast we found him off "Round Top Island" near Maatsuyler Island. It was a great flight and the scenery was the icing on the cake for me. Just for the record, he made the voyage in 79 hours and 27 minutes.

I hope you enjoyed this quick trip down memory lane with me, now I'd better get back to that long list of holiday jobs.

Till next time,

Paul Scambler, Senior Photographer