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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Port Noarlunga Manticore
I’m not referring to the baby shark in the foreground. That’s a Port Jackson Shark of course and there are plenty of them around at the moment. Recent reports from divers at Port Noarlunga often cite up to 10 of these beautiful creatures either resting on the sand or nestled under ledges of the reef. […]
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A few weeks ago I was asked to do some waterproof testing on a new product about to be released, Minelab’s new coin and relic metal detector called Manticore. The brief was simple, stay down at depth for an ‘extended’ amount of time and work the detector hard. Twist it, flex it, shove it hard […]
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I don’t often give away too much about what I do but even my ‘day job’ does not escape my lens. Today is a very special day marking the ‘for sale’ release of a new product we’ve called ‘Equinox’. For the past 18 months it has been a privilege working with an extraordinary and dedicated […]
Read MoreThe Echidna and the Gold
For two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour. That intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years. Alas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece […]
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