with the late Reverend C. L. Lang, formed the Sunraysia Naturalists' Club (now the Sunraysia Naturalists' Research Trust) being variously its president, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer and Editor. They agitated to have the Hattah-Kulkyne area declared a National Park, with success coming in 1960. Personal life Among Chandler's friends were poet C. J. Dennis, literary patron Jack Moir, cartoonist Hal Gye, sculptor Web Gilbert and painter Tom Roberts. He married Ivy Henshall at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Mordialloc, Victoria, 10 September 1931 and their daughter Mary was born in 1937. Mary Chandler, who died 2020, was an historian and writer whose publications include her edited volume of her father's letters Dear homefolks : letters written by L.G. Chandler during the First World War and of chronicles of their home town, Against the odds : the story of the Red Cliffs settlement, and of environmental history in Tribal lands to national park, with pictures by her father, on the Hattah/Kulkyne National Park. Chandler sold his vineyard in 1956 and moved to Red Cliffs where he died on 25 January 1980. Awards 1950 Australasian Photo-Review Recognition Medal 1961 Honorary Life Membership Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Honorary Life Member, Sunraysia Naturalists' Research Trust Publications Books Journal articles Chandler published hundreds of articles and photographs, in addition to his books. Chandler, L.G. (1965). "Eileen Ramsay’s story – four years after." Riverlander November 1965, 8–9. Exhibitions 2021 Soldier Settler, Magnet Galleries, Melbourne 2021 Mildura Arts Centre joint show with work of Eileen Ramsay, to 25 April (Anzac Day). 2016 Grief and Glory inclusion, Magnet Galleries, Melbourne 1932 Bolton Camera Club Annual International Exhibition of Pictorial and Scientific Photography, April 2 - April 9, 1931 Seventy-sixth Annual Exhibition of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, September 12 - October 10, 1930 Seventy-fifth Annual Exhibition of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, September 13 - October 11, 1929 Pacific International Salon of Photographic Art, September 18–28, 1929 Pacific International Salon of Photographic Art, October 5–15, 1929 Seventy-fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, September 14 - October 12, 1929 Second International Invitation Salon of the Camera Club of New York, May 1–15, June 6–30, May 16 - June 5, 1929 1928 Seventy-third Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, September 17 - October 13 Bibliography Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology