Archives: 2008 May

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 [...]