Tonight’s adventure on Garden Island was cold, windy and scattered with intermittant rain showers. I sat for a while watching the light fade in the gloom before the rain finally stopped. There was still enough time for a few images before the curfew of maritime twilight. The landscape was forlorn and moody but as the […]
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Exploring Sunset
At first it seems that the Torrens Island Power station dominates this industrial sunset but the more I look the more I see and am drawn into exploring this visual feast. The story begins right at the centre of that striking western sunset and its reflection in the waters of the North Arm Creek and […]
Read MoreAtomic Mangrove
It looks as if something exploded here in the salty shallows just off Torrens Island One large mangrove might be to blame or possibly the outcome. It is curious to note the perimeter of benthic disturbance encircling the entire group. Perhaps it is indeed the fallout of the large mangrove; wind, waves and tide doing […]
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I often come here on the way home from my day occupation. Perhaps not so often in these short winter days when I seem to leave and return during the in-between light of twilight. The little tidal creeks of Torrens Island in the last rays of sunset always make be feel like I have stepped […]
Read MoreThe All of It
Expansive vistas are hard. Looking out over a landscape that takes your breath away and trying to articulate to someone else why is the realm of poets. It’s not easily expressed. It’s easy to see why you say; “just look at it, out there, at all of it!’ And that’s it right there, the ‘all […]
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