Month: January 2013

Just north of Broken Hill is a New South Wales State Park called The Living Desert. And within The Living Desert is a series of 12 sculptures known as The Sculpture Symposium. This was another of those things on this trip that really needed bye shot at either sun up or sun down, not in the…

The apartment we stayed at was absolutely gorgeous. It was called The Majestic Oasis, and being Port Augusta, we were a little dubious as to just how much of an oasis it might turn out to be, but we were most pleasantly surprised when we got there. Two bedrooms, air-conditioned, fully equipped kitchen, back door…

We left Ceduna and started our trek across the Eyre Peninsula to Port Augusta. Looking at the map and how far we were travelling for the day, I felt we had time to make a detour through the Gawler Ranges National Park. So we stopped at a little place called Minnipa to grab a coffee. While we…

Yesterday was another big day on the road and believe it or not, I didn’t take even one photo. During my research for this trip, I had read about a dirt road which runs pretty much in a straight line from Esperance to Balladonia. Apparently, along this track, there are at least a couple of…

Well, Esperance did indeed turn out to be absolutely gorgeous. What they didn’t tell me though, was how it blows a freakin’ gale for 20 hours EVERY day. No, I’m NOT kidding!

Christmas Day was spent in Bruce Rock, hanging out with my Dad and all of that side of my family. First Christmas together since 2005. Awesome.

Today is a short day on the road (about 3 hours), so before we left, Keith and Christine took us for a quick tour of Kalgoorlie. This included a stop at the viewing area for the Super Pit. The Super Pit, as the name suggests, is a very large hole in the ground.

Even though you might have a location on your “photographic bucket list”, it doesn’t mean you necessarily know which way it faces and therefore what is the best time of day to shoot it. Such was the case with the Old Telegraph Station at Eucla.

The Nullarbor Plain. Australian readers, I beseech you… do this drive at least once in your life. Yes, it’s long. Yes, it can be monotonous. Yes, fuel WILL cost you an arm and a leg (we saw Premium 98 at $2.08/litre. For the Americans, that’s about $9.50/gallon by today’s exchange rate).

After a pleasant rest day in Adelaide, it was back on the road, with just a short stint up to Wallaroo to catch the SeaSA ferry across the Spencer Gulf.

Adelaide provided a welcome relief from the scorching temperatures we’d been facing over the previous 3-4 days. We awoke to a forecast of 25ºC… pure bliss. Cath, her girlfriend Allie and the kids headed off for a walk down to Glenelg Beach, while I headed off to do some shopping, and to search for a…

Well, as if the sunset wasn’t impressive enough, the sunrise turned out to be equally spectacular! The third image is the one I alluded to in yesterday’s post. I have been casually referring to this as “blue gold black”. Seriously considering a large canvas print of this one. I would put this in the top 5…

We packed up camp and hit the road by about 8:45, as the day was promising to be another scorcher. Today’s trek saw us heading west through Hillston, out to Ivanhoe and then on to the dirt road which follows the railway line out to the Menindee Lakes. I have been hearing for years that…

We headed back out to the zoo in the morning, and indeed the animals were a bit more active and visible. But my head was elsewhere.

The plan was to hit the road reasonably early so as to make it out to Dubbo by lunch time, thus allowing us time to visit Western Plains Zoo in the afternoon.