Archives: 2007 March

Indio flowering in the bush.
Early spring and the bush was alive with colour, mostly yellow, mouve and blue.
Legumes, plants from the pea family, are often predominant in the Australian bush and this was no exception. Indigo, pictured, yellow pea shrubs and several wattles were glorious in the morning sunlight among the greens of the trees, […]

Camp oven cooking. The camp oven half buried in the coals with the billy beside.
Well,G’day.
There’s nothing like a roast dinner when out camping in the bush. A forequarter lamb chop in the bottom of the camp oven, and half a dozen veggies: potato, sweet potato, carrot, parsnip, pumpkin and onion. Oil coating the oven with […]

Blazing campfire at Yankie’s Creek.
G’day.
It was coming on dark, so I got a small campfire blazing in just the right spot so I could rest my weary legs and aging back on a log with a convenient branch.
This campfire cost me! It was a mistake that someone of my camping and outdoor experience shouldn’t have […]

Yankie’s creek camp.
G’day there.
Out the back of Bemboka, there’s some pretty rough and steep country. These are the hills and mountains adjacent to the escarpment thet seperates the coastal fringe from the high country of the Monaro, on the Great Dividing Range.
At Bemboka, the elevation is about 200 metres above sea level, while the higest […]

Aboriginal dance at Aragunnu, Mimosa Rocks National Park.
Well, it was New Year’s Eve and there was to be a corroborie at the Koori camp.
Two didgeridoos and a number of dancers livened up the summer night around the campfire, with just a little help from the headlights of two cars.
What a great photographic opportunity for an […]

Catching beach worms at Aragunnu, Mimosa Rocks National Park.
Well, G’day.
We’ve camped at Aragunnu Beach in Mimosa Rocks National Park for over 25 years. The kids grew up knowing nothing else for a holiday destination.
The family pictured, catching beach worms, has camped at Aragunnu for a similar length of time, since wll before this girl was […]

Spectacle along the Great Ocean Road in Western Victoria.
Well, the Missus and I were able to take a week for a recent trip to Melbourne, diverting to the Great Ocean Road for some photography.
At a tiny place called Princetown there’s a caravan/camping park where we got a basic cabin.
Being summer, and with daylight saving, there […]

Computer manipulated self portrait.
G’day.
This was originally a colour digital photo taken with the camera in my left hand and pressing the shuter release with my thumb.
Using IrfanView, the image has been manipulated with the edge detection filter as well as other adjustments.
The greatest little programme this side of the black stump, Irfanview is an image […]