I welcomed in 2006 around a Koori campfire, along with a few other Gubbas (White Fellows).

With four digeridoos playing, sometimes more, it was a great atmosphere. While accompanying on clapsticks, Marilyn danced a small corroborie. From the talk, it seemed to be about something contempory but it went over my head. I was not allowed to photograph it.

Then there was Carlos, the Brazilian, with a number of drums. Dressed in white and moving around energetically, he added an exciting quality to the music.

Sunday 4 December 2005 Great Places

Great Places

I've added a Great Places page to my website, mainly for the benefit of oversees viewers. It's a bit ordinary yet. Hope you find it a bit helpful despite the small scale of the map.

Pictured, is the boat I use for wilderness landscape photography along rivers and tidal inlets.

Friday 25 November 2005 Rebuilding ATV Camp Trailer

A Rebuild of Some Facets of the ATV Trailer

With another outback wilderness landscape photography trip comming up in the winter, dreaming has given way to action with the part rebuilding of the ATV camp trailer.

Saturday 19 November 2005 Tow n Mow with ATV

Tow n Mow with ATV at Cooma

With a start, just on daylight, and having loaded up the ATV last night, we headed for Cooma so our son could mow his five acre house block with the Tow n Mow.

Sunday 30 October 2005 Camera Club Portraiture Workshop

Digital Images from Portraiture Workshop

The Sapphire Coast Camera Club held a portraiture workshop in the Regional Art Gallery today with three amateur models sitting for a number of club members.

I must say that the models were great and that everyone appeared to have a good time. An enjoyable relationship building experience as well as an irreplaceable photographic opportunity.

Displayed are eight excellent portraits.

Sunday 23 October 2005 Cooma Snowgums

Digital Images of Snowgums near Coma

One of my sons, along with his wife and little family, lives a few kilometers out of Cooma on the Monaro. A sheep and cattle grazing area in southern New South Wales, Australia, the Monaro undulates between about 800 meters and 1400 meters. Snowfalls blanket the Monaro for short periods each winter but Cooma at around 800 meters above sea level is better known for it's severe frosts.

The five acre block is land subdivided off from a cattle grazing property. When I recently stayed overnight, my granddaughter jumped on the ATV with me and we went photographing snowgums on the grazing property.

Friday 30 September 2005 Indigo: Wildflowers

Indigo Scanned After Dissapointing Trip

The other day I went photographing wildflowers again. The results were a bit ordinary except for this indigo which I took home and scanned.

Saturday 24 September 2005 Wildflowers Near Cowdroys Beach

Collection of Spring Wildflowers: Mimosa Rocks National Park

Arriving in the bush near Cowdroys Beach about sunrise I headed off on foot with my digital camera, looking for some wildflowers.

At first, wildflowers were pretty scarce, but after having meandered around the bush for a couple of kilometers I had a small collection.

Sunday 28 August 2005 Green Bird Flower

Green Bird Flower Photographed in Sand Dunes on Andamooka Station

While riding among the sand dunes on Andamooka Station I came across this green bird flower, part of the pea family.

The botanical name for the green bird flower is crotalaria cunninghamii.

The "pea" family of plants is a large group of over 500 genera and over 12,000 species which occurs throughout the world and which consists of herbs, shrubs, trees and climbing plants. Some exotics, such as the edible peas and beans, clover, lucerne and sweet peas are well established as commercial or ornamental crops while others, such as English broom (Cytisus scoparius) and gorse (Ulex europaeus), have long since outlived their welcome in some areas and become environmental weeds.

Saturday 27 August 2005 Salt Crystals in Lake Torrens

Salt encrustation in the bed of Lake Torrens

Crystalized Salt Clings to Drift Wood in the Bed of Lake Torrens

In the channel between Lake Torrens and the mainland there are large, shallow, waterholes. As the water from recent rain evaporates, the salt crystalizes out, clinging to the driftwood and rocks as well as coating the muddy lake bed with a stark white crust both above and below the water line.

Often working in an inch of salty water, I got down low to capture the surreal shapes and textures of this foreign looking micro landscape.

This is the first of the B&W images from my recent trip. Many more images to come.

Tuesday 2 August 2005 Loaded Up

Loaded Up for Tomorrow's Departure for Roxby Downs and Andamooka

At the conclusion of a busy day the trailer is loaded up with the ATV and its trailer. I've removed the wheels from the ATV trailer in order to fit it at the back of the load.

With so much gear to organise and so much adventure to experience it becomes hard to keep focused on wilderness landscape photography.

By Saturday afternoon I hope to be set up for about five nights camping so I can make day trips to various sites along the western coast of Lake Torrens and other spots on Bosworth Station.

Tuesday 26 July 2005 Lake Torrens Rocks

Rocks Collected Near Lake Torrens in the South Australian Outback

Today I got busy down the shed and made up a display stand for a small collection of rocks.

Significant to me, the rocks came from the area around Lake Torrens. I picked them up as I moved around photographing on the shore of Lake Torrens on Andamooka Station.

Perhaps they look to be rather ordinary rocks to you but to me they typify the terrain around Lake Torrens. The flat rock is the type found on the surface for miles around Andamooka and I expect to find this rock everywhere on Bosworth Station when I go there in early August.

Monday 25 July 2005 Big Wheels on ATV Trailer

ATV Trailer With New Wheels Set Up in the Back Yard

On my previous trip to Andamooka Station the wheelbarrow wheels only just made it.

Dozens of thorns punctured the tubes with pinholes. I got around this with a can of pressure pack stuff that inflates the tube and seals the holes. Excellent product! I'll carry a can for emergency in future.

After two camping trips the light duty bearings were colapsing and may not have endured another trip.

So I've put new wheels and axel on the trailer and here it is, set up in the back yard, confirming that everything will fit. I've decided to take only one spare wheel for the ATV so this lowers the load a good bit and along with the wider wheel base will help with the stability of the load.

Friday 22 July 2005 Followed Old Fence

ATV on Andamooka Station near Lake Torrens

Bega Photographer Follows Old Fence Line to Lake Torrens

On the advice of the Andamooka Station manager I checked out the map and followed an old sheep/dingo fence which led me to Sketcking Pile, the spot where I wanted to access Lake Torrens.

The going was pretty rough for the ATV and more so for the trailer with it's little wheels. At times I went for several kilometers in first and second gear over loose, square cut rocks as big as house bricks and besser blocks.

Picking a track through this desolate region with the ATV, I really didn't know how the trailer was traveling on the roughest country. I couldn't look behind!

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