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The Horse Sculpture, Broken Hill Sculptures, Living Desert, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The Horse Sculpture was done by Jumber Jikaya, who was President of the Georgian Sculpture Society. The sculpture is a tribute to horses, and particularly to the Georgian horse breed.
Today's theme is red seats; First the big red seat in Broken Hill, a mining city in outback New South Wales. In a city noted not only for its silver, lead and zinc, but also its art and artists, this outsized seat is located at the top of the city's biggest mine dump. It overlooks the city and was once open to the public to climb on. Now it's roped off with a chain fence and climbing on it is prohibited. I guess it's a public safety issue, not to mention insurance, yet I feel it was more enjoyable when I could climb on and interact with it. As a view only display it has lost it's impact, for me at least.
In Easter Island there are five coves or small bays (hanga in rapanui language) from which local fishermen go out to sea. The most remote are La Perouse on the northeast coast, Hanga Nui, near Ahu Tongariki, and Vaihu on the south coast.
Road trip to Broken Hill with Marty
This is the road to the top of the slag heap, where there is a lookout, a memorial and various museum pieces of mining equipment
Mulga Parrots usually feed on the ground or in low shrubs and bushes. At this time they can be quite approachable as long as you keep a low profile.
A big male Inland Bearded Dragon from the desert country to the north of Broken Hill in western NSW puts on an impressive threat display.
On this day in 2011 I visited Mutawintji National Park in outback New South Wales. Situated in the rugged, mulga-clad Byngnano Range, the 69,000 Ha park is dissected by colourful gorges, rockpools and creek beds lined with red gums. Scattered among the caves and overhangs are Aboriginal rock art and engravings. In this shot our Aboriginal guide tells us about the rock art in a vast overhand where his ancestors lived for thousands of years.
Looking west across the Mundi Mundi plains from the lookout 5 km north west of Silverton, New South Wales, Australia. This is where they shot many scenes for Mad Max 2.
Broken Hill at Sunset in Torrey Pines State Natural Park.
10Aug2017
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fiddling around with a sketch I started after a trip back to Broken Hill in 2014. Huonville Station, my grandparents used to own it - Sheep country.
Wide angle take of a cute little Eyrean Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis tetraporophora). He was spotted basking on an elevated stone on the roadside verge flanking the Silver City Highway to the south of Broken Hill in far western NSW on a mild afternoon, recently. The immediate habitat is a vast plain comprised of compacting red-soil, overlain with an open layer of mixed chenopod shrubland and perennial grasses.
CLP12,CLF3 have just placed the empty ballast string into the siding at Broken Hill for re loading after running a ballast train to Kaleentha and return on 2-6-23
Here's a moody image I made last year at Broken Hill in the Torrey Pines trails. Best viewed in full screen.
© Tony Aceves 2013
A huge dust storm approaching the sculptures in the Living Desert Park at Broken Hill, Australia. Definitely no sunset shots this evening.
drawing upon a mix of memory and photo - I was born in this town- on the edge of the Australian desert - when it was at its peak - the richest deposit of lead, zinc copper, gold and tin in the world - the mining giant BHP - (Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd ) started right here - the junction mine was close to where I played as a kid.
Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego. We stayed for seven days in San Diego on that trip, but only one evening the clouds cooperated with me and this is the one.
With its Lindavista caprock eroded away (remnants in lower right hand corner), the underlying softer Torrey sandstone, a remnant of sandbars from ~ 50 million years ago, weathers away easily, producing lovely fluted patterns accentuated here by the angle of sunlight hitting it.
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve (only 3 square miles in area) is mostly surrounded by exurban development, a major golf course, and the Pacific Ocean. The reserve’s namesake is one of the rarest pines in the world- the Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana), which occurs in scattered patches in the reserve (two trees of the total ~9000 in the wild seen here) and on Santa Rosa Island, although they are also planted as ornamentals. Torrey pines are named for the 19th century American botanist John Torrey, who provided many of the first scientific descriptions of plants of the southwestern US. Torrey pines are classified as an endangered species, threatened by habitat loss and climate change coupled with bark beetles (outbreak in the early 2000's) and fire.
The viewpoint from the end of the trail, actually one of many overlooks.
More info here:http://www.torreypine.org/parks/photo-album.html
It was overcast all day...
Sturt's Desert Pea takes its name from Charles Sturt, who recorded seeing large quantities of the flowers while exploring central Australia in 1844.
However the first sighting and collection of the plant occurred 22 August 1699 on Rosemary Island by William Dampier.
In the 19th century the plant was known botanically as Clianthus dampieri.
In 1990 the plant was reclassified by Joy Thompson under the genus Swainsona as Swainsona formosa, the name by which it is officially known today.
It takes its name from English botanist Isaac Swainson.
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
The Living Desert Sculptures, at Broken Hill, NSW, comprise 12 sandstone artworks which highlight the skyline, all with a story to tell. Located on a majestic hilltop within the centre of the reserve, the sculptures were completed in 1993 by artists from around the world.
See photo below...
Yesterday I promised an icon, and here he is. I saw this big Plains Bison twice in May. The first time he blocked the Ecotour Road for several minutes, standing sideways to display his bulk, not inclined to move for a mere Toyota or the SUV that was coming in the other direction.
After a while, it dawned on me: he's blind! Sure enough, when I look at the hi-res photos, his eyes are milky-blue. Here in Grasslands there are no predators that can take him down, so he should be okay until winter. He may be able to see shadow and light (who knows?); he can get around. The food is good this summer.
I made this shot the second time I found him, this time well off the road. This time, on foot, I gave him plenty of space. The light was soft and bright, ideal for bringing out the detail in his dark coat. In the background: the Broken Hills.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Road trip to Broken Hill with Marty
The town of Broken Hill is divided into north and south by a huge slag heap. This was Marty's find, we shot it from different ends. I was impressed by the bank vault quality of the door.. The car is probably owned by the business proprietor. XXXX is pronounced "Four X" - its a beer, or so the label claims.
DeeBees Deli - Lane Street Broken Hill. Re-visting a charcoal sketch I did of the corner store down the street from where i lived until I was 10 years old. it was called Laurie's then. Charcoal A2 size. You probably need to zoom into the shadows on this one.
Shelley's Soft Drinks was a family business started in Broken Hill in 1893 and grew to be the largest soft drink manufacturer in the state of NSW. It was sold to BT/Amatil (Coke a Cola) in the 1960s.