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Menindee Lake
Dry as a bone since 2002, about seven years, Menindee Lake was rather a disappointment but not an absolute loss from a photographer’s view point.
The lake looks to be about ten kilometres wide, more or less round, with the scrub of the far bank only just visible from the sand dune on which the [...]

As I search for my artistic identity, I present yet another high colour representation of Thurra Dunes in Croajingolong National Park.
Well and truly worked over in Irfanview, I present the essential elements of this wilderness landscape image in stunning contrast.
To me, the true to life colours take second place to the forms crying out for [...]

I came across this old print from my B&W days so scanned it to post.
It’s a pinhole image, that is, it was made using a home made pinhole camera.
Pinhole Image – Melissa in the Old Spenco Building
For this image, Melissa sat still for three and a half minutes during the exposure. There’s a shelf about [...]

Came across a couple of files of IR images from back in my film and darkroom days.

Found these negatives from a trip to Thurra Dunes in Croajingolong National Park which is a coastal national park located in the East Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia.
So since I had the scanner fired up I scanned them and enhanced them a little in the GIMP.
Taken maybe five years ago using the Seagull 6 x [...]

Well, I’m home from my trip to outback South Australia.

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My place in Bega New South Wales

My sleeping bag was filthy and smelly from many nights sleeping pretty rough. It was rather dirty from the red dust of the outback. Dirty inside and dusty outside. It was also rather smelly from the many warm [...]

Well, I’ve created a new blog, Australia Travel. Its an online accommodation, travel and tour booking facility for holiday, vacation and business travelers.
Australia Travel has two main sections:
1) Book Online
At this stage, Australia Travel has online accommodation booking for Australia only, set out by state and region. However, as the site becomes more established, [...]

My sister, Rosie, died the other day.
The timing could have been worse. As it was, we packed several days early and returned from our trip, via Melbourne. Two days drive to Melbourne from Roxby Downs in outback South Australia. But that’s nothing in comparison to the real issues and the brunt of the whole episode, [...]

Traveled up the coast to Narooma the other day.
Narooma is about an hour’s travel in the car up the Princes Highway from Bega.
The weather wasn’t brilliant. A few showers. For a while I was stuck behind a big semi-trailer, the spray coming off his many wheels, filling the air in my path. But eventually, on [...]

Pear tree in blossom, out of season.
While much of Australia is still in the grip of a lasting drought, here in Bega we had good rain toward the end of summer.
It’s now early autumn and because of the soaking rain, coupled with the mild weather, this flowering pear tree in Littleton Gardens thinks it’s spring, [...]