Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV

The other day, accompanied by my friend David Cook, I went on a photography trip to Point Hicks in Victoria’s Croajingolong National Park.

Bread rising in the camp oven prior to baking. Ah, there’s nothing like campfire tucker!

A well watered area in East Gippsland, Croajingalong National Park runs about 100km along the coast from Mallacoota Inlet […]

Wilderness photography on the Thurra Dunes in Croajingolong National Park is a great experience, the sights enough to blow a landscape photographer’s mind.

Running eastward toward the summit of Thurra Dunes, this feature stands out in it’s rugged complexity.

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Mountain bike ride on Doctor George Mountain.

This video is part of the learning process, preparatory to my next desert trip, when I hope to do some motorbike in the sand dunes videos.
So, what do you reckon? Please let’s know in the comment box below.

by David Cook
Point Hicks is on the south-east corner of mainland Australia and is well known for its scenic beauty, particularly the huge sand dunes. I recently spent a few days camping there with some fellow photographers, the aim being to ascend the 140 metre high sand dunes and undertake some photography.
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The other day I had opportunity to digitally restore a scanned reproduction of a photo, possibly from around 1862-64.

Digitally restored copy of a photograph of John McDouall Stuart, c. 1863.

John McDouall Stuart first came to fame in the emerging colony of South Australia when part of Captain Sturt’s unsuccessful expedition to the centre of the […]

Well, we’re off on a photography and camping trip next week, to Thurra Dunes in Croajingolong National Park, situated in East Gipsland, Victoria.

It’s a coastal park and boasts the second highest sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere at 140 metres. The higher sand dunes are in Namibia and they’re not all that much higher, so […]

I spent a couple of hours photographing the shearing at South Gap Station in outback South Australia. All colour digital, I’m afraid, with a subject lending itself to black and white images.
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Black and white image produced from a digital colour photo. Shearing at the South Gap woolshed.
My days of genuine […]

Shearing at the South Gap Woolshed had been in full swing for several days when I arrived to photograph the shearers and stockmen engaged in the annual event.

Ray spraying the sheep for lice while pastoralist, Bob Greenfield, manages then in the race.

With a total workforce of 17 people, it was by no means a small […]

My fear of snakes goes right back to early childhood.

This sleepy became my security from snakes for the two days that I camped at the old stockmen’s hut.

We had a black dog named Doggin, or was it Doggen or maybe Doggan.
Anyway, Doggin caught a snake. Mum killed the snake but not in time to save […]

I camped one night in the tent, near the sheep yards and crutching shed at Beda.

A couple of sheets of iron over the bike kept it fairly dry.

The morning dawned overcast, so apart from a few photographs as the sun rose over the horizon, and below the cloud cover, it wasn’t much good for my […]