Running a bit late this month, half way through April already, however better late than never. This is a HDR photo of one of a number of salt lakes in the Swan Hill district. Hope you enjoy.
Photo of the Month
Photo of the month: February
I have included this photo not for it’s artistic merit but for it’s content, or lack of it. A couple of years back I had a job to photograph a number of outback pubs. I had just finished photographing the deserted Hatfield Hotel and my next job was the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel at Booligal, my GPS said that I needed to go via Ivanhoe which was over 200 km. I had a bit of forethought and had loaded a set of maps from Tracks4Australia which is a very detailed map without auto routing. It showed me a dirt track between Clare and highway 75 that saved me more than 100 km. The land scape was incredible, about half way along the track I stopped and climbed onto the roof of my 4×4 and took in the barren 360 degree view, a view with not a single tree or building, this is a photo looking back towards Clare.
“And people have an awful downUpon the district and the town –
Which worse than hell itself they call;
In fact the saying far and wide
Along the Riverina side
Is Hay and Hell and Booligal ” Hay, Hell and Booligal
A.B. “Banjo” Patterson
Photo of the month: January
Wellington, New Zealand. I rose early on the last day of our trip to New Zealand in the hope of taking some great sunrise photos. The weather was against me, rain and total grey overcast. I returned with only a few images, I thought this HDR image of the Wharf Offices was quite pleasing.
Photo of the Month: December
Dry lake bed of Lake Boga during the great drought (composite photo). The Swan Hill area has suffered drought for almost 10 years, most farmers have only seen minimum production on their dry land farms during this time. Ironically last month we have had 79.6mm of rain which will most likely severely damage most crops that are ready for harvest. This is the first time that I remember Lake Boga being dry. The Lake Boga Yacht Club was formed in 1936, I started sailing on the lake over 30 years ago and such a sight would have been unimaginable then.
Photo of the Month: November
The golden glimmer of sunrise breaks over the horizon as we sail through the Heads of Port Philip Bay into Bass Straight on the 31st of November this year. Who would think this is one of the worlds most dangerous stretches of waters that has taken over 100 ships to their graves. Taken with a Canon 5D MkII. (This photo won my wife a new pair of shoes.)
