Category: Environment

ATV, quad bike, parked in the weird landscape of Lake Eucumbene
G’day there.
Well, it wasn’t much of a day on Good Friday, for photographing or riding, with the sky heavily overcast and showers visible around the landscape, threatening to fall close handy.
However, with the bike motor having just been rebuilt, the urge to give it a [...]

The Green Grasshopper – Murray Nichol, photographer
Murray Nichol is a young photographer making his mark, not only on the local scene in the Bega Valley, but also, to some degree, on the national stage.
With The Green Grasshopper, pictured, Murray Nichol has won the National Youth Week Snap It Talent Competition. His prize was the digital [...]

Clay pan between parallel sand dunes in the arid region.
The photo shows just how dry and inhospitable the outback, wilderness, arid region of South Australia can be. This is six inch rainfall country.
My son, with his little family, lives in a mining town, Roxby Downs, an oasis in the desert. They are a family of [...]

The effect of the drought, seen at the Hume Weir.
The effect of climate change on Australia’s water resources.
At around 30 metres (100 feet) below the high water mark, long dead and submerged trees in the bed of the Hume Weir present a stark image of the effects of the combination of the regular cycle of [...]