For a couple of years now I have been commuting along a route that takes me past the Barker Inlet Wetlands and the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre. I’d noticed the windmills, the prolific bird life and the sights and smells of a civic rubbish dump but in my head I was already at my […]
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It’s interesting that a man behind a movie camera is a ‘camera man’ while a man behind a still camera is a ‘photographer’. As photographers or camera men (the non gender version of the word) we don’t get photographed very often. Still I find myself drawn to capturing their images like some mirror of myself. […]
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It’s hot. The run off from the swampy on the roof fills a bucket under the the eave of the house. Every drop captured. Every drop precious. It’s nearly full. Time to water but not every plant can handle this almost brackish Adelaide water. Under the verandah with a glass of cold water in hand […]
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Lake Lockie and its big brother, Lake Hattah, in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park of northern Victoria is little natural wonder I have only just discovered. As the Murray River winds it’s way through the arid mallee scrub of this region it spills out onto wetlands that cycle from wet to completely dry. For much of […]
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The Bluebottle jellyfish (Physalia utriculus), also known as the Pacific Man O’War, is a complete stranger to my local South Australian waters but here on Bondi Beach, Sydney we found hundreds of them washed ashore. One poor unsuspecting child must have found these bright blue toys scattered all around too irresistible to ignore. We heard […]
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