By 1938, at the age of 31, George had taken up photography professionally and worked at
Noel Rubie’s portrait and industrial photography studio in
Sydney. over the caption "Miss Heather George, of
Artarmon, is a youthful Sydney artist who has lately abandoned painting for photography". She later practiced at a series of Melbourne and Victorian country photography studios. photographing Sydney’s older suburbs, and stately homes in
Hunters Hill She moved to Victoria and recorded the nineteenth-century slate-tiled warehouses of the St James Buildings, the demolition of the
Eastern Markets and the construction of the
King Street Bridge, the watch-tower of Melbourne’s fire station, and mud-brick buildings in
Eltham. In 1952 George stayed for months in the outback of the
Northern Territory, where her sister and her sister's husband were stationed at several reservations, and there photographed indigenous subjects for whom she developed great respect and love, and others on the reserves, including school children at Areyonga Aboriginal Reserve, or working in cattle stations including
Wave Hill.
Castlecrag, and of other features of Sydney, including
Taronga Park Zoo, the Butler Stairs of
Kings Cross, the multi-storied Chevron-Hilton hotel at
Potts Point under construction, the emerging street cafés
Macquarie Street, and the
Mitchell Library. She travelled to
Hobart for pictures of the Cat and Fiddle Square Her work also appeared in
Hoofs and Horns,
Pix, ''
Women's Day'', as well as the
National Trust Magazine. == Later life ==