By ALESHA CAPONE
EBONNIE Lord has photographed some of Keilor’s most iconic sites to help celebrate the area’s 150th anniversary of local government this year.
Ms Lord has captured images of St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Brimbank Park, Keilor Cemetery, the suburb’s library and Old Shire Hall, which are on display at the Keilor municipal offices.
Her photos have also been featured in a concert at Overnewton College, ’Vivaldi’s Four Seasons of Keilor’, showing on a big screen as an orchestra played.
“Because they were playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the brief was to get photos which were happy and sunny,” Ms Lord said.
Ms Lord said she wanted to include St Augustine’s in the photographic series, because her parents married at the church in 1984.
“Photographing this village and surrounds was a sentimental experience for me especially coming face-to-face with the St Augustine’s church for the first time,” she said.
“For 28 years we had unwittingly by-passed this treasure on the freeway below, meaning to visit it.
“It was eerily beautiful when I finally met its pretty blue stone exterior, I had heard so much about.”
Ms Lord is a very busy woman – she is a photographer, reporter at a Ballan newspaper and a Brimbank City Council communications officer.
She has just started her own business Ebonnie Louise Photography and shot her first wedding two weeks ago.
“I have really always loved taking photos,” Ms Lord said.
“I just find photos are really central to my stories. I really loved taking photos and I always download my pictures before writing my stories.
“I think I’m much more of a visual person – images say so much which you can’t with words.”
