Monthly Archives: February 2011

With a little imagination this could just about be anywhere in the world.

I can imagine it being in Canada, the United States, even many places in Europe.

But it’s in the Flinders Ranges looking down the Aroona Valley towards Wilpena Pound.

It was one of those scenes that is quite striking when you come across it.

Something that is worth a photograph.

It looks almost out of place in the Flinders due to our unusually wet spring and summer.

Shot at f22 @ 1/125 sec, ISO 400. Focal length 190mm with the usual Canon 5D MK II and a 28-300mm lens

The southern side of Wilpena Pound taken a couple of years ago.

The ravages of the long, drawn-out drought clearly evident in comparison to some of the photographs that have been published over the last couple of weeks.

Even so, there was still a beauty that even the harshest drought could not suppress.

I wonder if you can pick some big differences to the previous shot of Wilpena Pound in the South Australia’s Flinders Ranges.

This is the opposite side of the pound, taken from Arkaba Station and not far from the Moralana Scenic Drive.

It was also taken before all the recent rain. There is not that ”sparked up’ vibrant look that’s very evident now.

As is the case around Mt Mary’s Peak on the north side, the wall of the Pound is very imposing here too.

The joy of taking this shot in the afternoon.

A contrast from yesterday’s morning shot of almost the same scene – St Mary’s Peak and Wilpena Pound from Bunyeroo Gorge in the Flinders Ranges.

Climbing to the top of this vantage point meant dodging the many Golden Orb spider webs strung between almost every tree.

In the morning, of course, when going up the same hill for the previous panorama it was a different story. You were climbing in the dark.

Shot with the same camera and lens as the previous panorama at f22, shutter speed 1/30 sec with a 2 thirds stop down in exposure compensation at ISO 200. Focal length 28 mm.