Field Observations

Mad as Cut Snakes

There is always a simpler way of doing things. Sometimes it ain’t pretty but the further you are from the city, the less it seems to matter. In the “build-up” to the wet season in the Kimberley the days are long, hot and humid. Like the morning after a biggish night it’s kind of OK…

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6012.55 km

Most of the photos I’ve taken whilst pedalling my way round Perth this year have been of utes parked in cycle lanes and paths. A few have been of cars. I thought it might be nice to stop at my 6000th kilometre for 2010 and see what else I could come up with.

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Last Muster at Park Farm

My folks have lived at Park Farm for the best part of 50 years. We spent a couple of days there to be a part of their last shearing before they move; they sold the farm just over a week ago. This photo is from the last muster of woolly wethers after the shearers knocked…

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Third dawn shoot this week

Means occasionally having doubts re. one’s career choice. Being up at 4am for the weather check (all clear today), on the road at 4:30 isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Upside is eating out for brekky twice this week, today we’re at Sayers in Leederville. Yum.

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Museums of Rural Tasmania

We went to Tasmania not so long ago. Tasmania has a justifiably good reputation for it’s wilderness, well for the bits they’re not busy chopping down. Rocky gorges, remote windswept mountain tops, the outdoors in it’s untamed, chaotic and breathtaking glory. You’ve already seen those pictures though. What has been overlooked in the years since…

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