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Floral Abundance

For Ailsa Fay McMillan, life began at Gympie in Queensland. She grew up in Rockhampton. Early in her career she had a job at Mercier Studios for four years, where she worked in oils – painting sepia photographs and doing darkroom tasks developing films and printing photographs. On weekends, she also did some wedding photography.

Another four years were spent working with Channel 7 television in Rockhampton, editing news film and assisting in the make-up department. There were a lot of ‘live

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