Archives: 2010 October

I’ve camped in Yeltacowie Homestead a couple of times. My first visit to Yeltacowie coincided with a visit by two great old timers, Ernie Ash and John Barber.
Watching the Fire in the Metters Stove

You see, Yeltacowie homestead has been abandoned for several years and these two mates were making the trip for old time’s sake, [...]

Heading east across the Nullarbor Plain and then north through Central Australia? Or maybe in the reverse direction?
Google Map of the Short Cut from Ceduna to Glendambo via Kingoonya
View Directions to Glendambo, South Australia in a larger map
Well, you can cut off a lot of kilometres and see some great outback country at the same [...]

An ancient volcanic plug, it’s covering of softer rock eroded away, stands watch over the rocky bay at Aragunnu in Mimosa Rocks National Park, NSW, New South Wales, Australia.
View Aragunnu Beach in a larger map

Lesley and I visited Menindee Lakes in outback NSW, Australia, on our recent photography trip. Here is an album of images, mostly dead trees with a few wildflowers thrown in.
Claire has made some comments, below, and has kindly sent this great macro shot of a bee foraging on the Patterson’s Curse, near her home.
Hope you [...]

On our recent trip the western part of New South Wales, Australia, we encountered these wildflowers way out near White Cliffs. It’s outback Australia, alright, though not so far off the beaten track to be thought of as being dangerously isolated.

Well, it’s ages since I last did a portrait session but since a few photographer friends were getting together for a barbie, show and tell and model shoot, I went along with it.
After photographing in the studio for a while, we went outside where it was rather overcast, most of the time, cold and windy.
A [...]