Monthly Archives: January 2011

Just Add Water

Posted on January 31, 2011 by admin

It looks good enough to get out the fly rod and go after a trout or two, except it’s far from fly fishing country.

Another waterhole created by summer thunderstorms not far from Bolla Bollana on the Arkaroola Creek.

Just Add Water

Posted on January 31, 2011 by admin

Just one of scores of unexpected and beautiful waterholes created by summer thunderstorms and rain fronts that have fallen on the Outback and the Flinders Ranges.

This one near the Nepabunna aboriginal community in the northern Flinders, like the others, is not destined to last long.

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Dawn versus Dusk

Posted on January 30, 2011 by admin

What a different 12 hours makes. The same landmarks as the previous post and almost the same location but taken at about eight in the morning.

Generally, Dinnertime Hill is a just a rocky, barren formation pretty much devoid of noticeable vegetations.

Thanks to the changing weather patterns, to see it with a distinctive green tinge, particularly at the height of summer, is a rarity.

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Dinnertime Hill

Posted on January 28, 2011 by admin

Dusk on a hot summer’s day. Dinnertime Hill is a standout landmark on the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. Lake Frome is off in the far distance on the plains behind.

Here’s a good reference map for what you might call My Backyard and a good reference for many of the locations where my photographs are taken.

Canon EF24-70 mm f2.8L USM lens @ f22 0.3 sec ISO 200

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View from the Top

Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin

It’s been a hectic few weeks mostly banging my car around on some of the roughest tracks in the Flinders Ranges and climbing many a rocky mountain.

I’ve had a couple of commissions to produce three images that will print to 6 metres wide – as someone said to me …”going where angels fear to tread”

Well, the photos are in the can and one at least will soon be on a wall.

What has been outstanding though when working through the country is the amount of greens, oranges and yellows mixing with the normal reds and browns of the rocks and hills.

Apart from the lushness evident in this photograph taken in one of the northern most parts of the Flinders Ranges, is the splashes of golden colour everywhere from flowering spinifex, seen here in the foreground.

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