Kosciuszko National Park - Medium Format Wilderness Landscape Photography by Laurie McArthur
Bushfire is an Inescapable and Essential Feature of the Australian Bush. Wilderness landscape photographer, Laurie McArthur, captures the results of the ongoing struggle of the alpine snowgums to survive and propagate
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Bushfires in Kosciuszko National Park
In the summer of 2003, severe bushfires swept through large areas of Kosciuszko National Park continuing on to Canberra, the nation's capital city, and destroying 510 homes.
Bushfire is an inescapable and essential feature of the Australian bush. Bare dead wood, unprotected by bark, is left black and shiny. Rotting hollows are further gouged out revealing intriguing negative shapes imposed upon the colourful and smooth textured bark of the living wood. Some trees are killed and stand stark and bare for ages. Others succumb to the flames and are consumed either standing or fallen, sometimes leaving a stump, other times, a hole.
But when it's all past, the trees recover their foliage as best they can and the understory rejuvenates. This hard done by landscape resumes its appearance of normality, (for normality is what it is), and presents a wilderness landscape demanding the attention of the landscape photographer.