Today I was lucky enough to photograph this beautiful chunk of specimen gold in quartz. Here with my watch placed on top for scale is 2.6 kilograms of gold in a 4.6 kilogram nugget specimen. A lucky strike indeed for a very lucky amateur prospector who found this gorgeous rock last month in central Victoria. […]
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Surrounded by vineyards a rainbow has fallen on a fallow field lit by the sun through a rent in the clouds. Misty rain falls elsewhere giving this Barossa landscape a dreamy feel. It’s not a full rainbow, and the gold at its base is just stubble. The surrounding vineyards are the true gold of the […]
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Somewhere between clear blue summer skies and rainy grey wintery days is a special place where beach and horizon meet in a golden celebration of texture and colour. It’s a good place to be…
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When ever I see a solitary shoe lying on the ground, or on a bench, caught in a tree or dangling from an overhead power cable my imagination runs crazy. Did someone come off the worse for a joke with friends, did something tragic happen here or was it just left and forgotten. Two shoes, […]
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There was a great sense of expectation as we entered the hallowed vault in Edinburgh’s Scotch Whisky Experience. There, bathed in the glowing gold of its own making were 3384 unique bottles of Scotland’s most renowned export, scotch whisky. This collection was once the 35 year passion of Brazilian collector, Claive Vidiz. Purchased by global […]
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