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Often when I have been mircrUin of aflrtfofl -detail oi' structure and Itavc net 

 bad a lre-il» specimen, it ha; been possible to examine hip. photograph with a 

 ]Mn-kct-i-l,i^s, as one would a hvmg flower. He was the photographer ul tHt 

 little flowers, the buttercups anil daisies, thr Karly Nancies and bluebells H € 

 jitcttircrl Yellow Stars and sundews with as much pleasure as waratah or 

 Qttftlfcfl bell- 



Keenly as he wjAyed fib occasional visits ro distant party of Victoria In* 

 greatest pleasure was in quiet rambles with his friend, the late W. K. 

 Nieholls. Sydenham, Sunshine, and St. Albans, were :hvir happy btfttittgr 

 grounds, us innumerable pictures show They show also how many flowers 

 nave gfitW irotn those places, today. Hi* home was near Beckett Park and 

 Marauoa Gardens, *mt these toe* provided comities* subjects and rf)4ltj#$ 

 pleasure. 



Although we worked together we rarely met, hut 1 have vivid mimicries of 

 ibe few times I visited Ui$ limine, of the garden that was a pleasure to n\\ his 

 famiiy, of the warm wrknme, and of the wildrVmver photographs in beauti- 

 fully bound volumes tJor he wfta a bookbinoeT diid an e%pen craftsman}. 1 

 remctilher how amazed T was when he showed mc his <tudio*\ a laundry iij 

 which, with phutogiaphic equipment in pUce, thrre was hardly room :u stand; 

 hut most of all 1 rnnrtiLber hU ^nrbusiasm for the work of r* younger phnm- 

 S^apher "*]J*v«* yr>u seen Ucrt Reeve*-' picture-."-" hi- a^tf, "They are 

 tuagntficeoj j You must see diem " There was real Height in Ins voice. 



His own picture* wen* less spectacular than those he admirul. but in hi.-. 

 own sphere he was uiisuTpAiiCrl. He f»H-e.*led thr folic flcw^i* ie> us. Cyno- 

 tffbwmi saav^htts often parses unnoticed, spirt from its srmi, hut his pic- 

 tures show what a lovely tliinjj it rs. Tiny tan* of ScQMpfo hfiokeri, ^reerush 

 flowers oX saUtutsh, the ottaii dusters of lignum ifi bloom* arc all rrvcaJcrt in 

 their perfection, not larger than life, hut lifelike, brcugtii dose to our ryes 

 by onr who loved them, 



''One who loved thrml" That tvas hi? secret. Next to his happy f&milt 

 life he found his greatest happiness in photographing the (lowers, taking 

 infinite pains in the smallest and least, and sharing, that happiness with friends. 



We are poorer because a quiet flower-lover no longer goes out to picture 

 the wnyside flowers and find endless "pleasure in the Klaranoa plantings, bti* 

 we are richer fof what he has done. His phorofifaoh* will no doubt he pre- 

 ferred for other generations to study and enjoy. H tfti could preserve with 

 them the spirit of single-minded and afTeetiomue eratlsmauship hi winch they 

 wcTe takrn wp sh*<ulil he r;;h indeed. 



- QtltAM GAt.TiRATTM 



EDWARO JESSE GREGSON — I«8Z-I955 



Howard Jesse Otvgson was horn at Vewcanlc. in ^ew Scutl: W^ltffi 

 where In* father was Ttumajrcr of the Australian ARricultural Com()any. lie 

 graduated in Arts at the Sydney UtUVCribj aud iftpdftd further' at Cornell 

 Uriivcrsiti' in I'S A., ;peiializing in engineering, fie joinerJ the Canadian 

 Military forces in World War T and returned tu Australia in 1519. 



His father. Je%sc Gregyjrtj had l>een one of tile pioneers at "Mount W dson 

 and there had developed an interest ill ihe local ruralypts JLdward CiTpj>«ni» 

 resumed farnnnK- activities on the family property and, except when serving 

 with the 2nd AJ.F-. he Jived there until his death. 



After his retirement hi l c J$5. lie continued, the re^cai'die* bifl fnther Itad 

 hcigun into Ihe euralypcs, in particular tliorc or the Blue Mountrtins. \ nentdn 

 ot great eneiey. Fdwaxd Grefison became a familiar flgute in that area, 

 either alone or wrth uieods- of sioular jis^-rcsU. Suou hts Uiiowledee ul the 

 puzzling forms of the genu.* in those mountain? became second only to dial 

 of h»i .riend and companion of manv rambles, the Koverwid Colin Kurtfc?? 



