On being asked by Mark Tronson about his childhood in Liverpool, England, Robbie Wilson (now 59) was keen to explain that he had a wonderful childhood where the kids from his street all played together and where community was a very important part of life.
"We played cricket in the summer in the street after school and in the colder months we played football, there was always something to do with friends," he noted.
But Robbie Wilson was looking for adventure, and he looked to Australia as a place of the future. He bought a fare with his savings, and, being a keen photographer, he brought with him his dark room all packed away neatly in his travel trunk
"I was no 10 pound tourist," Robbie Wilson exclaimed, as he made the trip of a life-time in 1981.
He bought one of the earliest video cameras with a port-a-pack that was lodged in his bag over the shoulder, and was soon working with a Japanese wedding company taking magnificent bridal photographs.
This made Robbie Wilson's name as a professional photographer on the Gold Coast, and as the years drew on so his expertise became known and his skills desirable and sought after.
He comments that not only are wedding photographs popular, as are those of birthday parties, but people will always want family portraits and individual photographs. Portraiture is a significant part of his workload.
"You see the best and worst of people at weddings, especially where alcohol and family's come together," Robbie Wilson noted.
As a man of faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour, Robbie Wilson said that although he was converted in 1983, two years after he came to Australia, he could look back on his early life and see the hand of God in innumerable situations.
"One of the issues being self employed is that work is plentiful at times and then very lean at other times, do having the Lord in your life has been very comforting in such situations," Robbie Wilson explained.
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