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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
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I continue to play with the lightbox. It’s just inconsistent lighting which always needs a temp adjustment but it’s fun to play with. Candy is easy to get and cheap to work with. It’s not a big lightbox. (I have two) so this sort of thing works well. The iPhone 13 pro has a great Lens setup for this. It takes better macro photos than my M50.
The Luxury of being yourself
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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they said, don't rush for that dream,it will ruin you
i said, i will dream that dream
even when i knew as well,that it will ruin me
but once you reached all the limits of not getting and not wanting
you can finally find and create your own wonderland
that wonderland, which is much more desirable than the vague dreams you once had
and have faith,it will never let you ruin yourself
Always nice to get and rather enjoying A glut of shots I have got recently after such A long time on my wanted list.Thanks to everyone that takes the time and makes the effort to comment and fave my pics its very much appreciated
Regards Clive
Thought I would repost this one as it's snowy. Can't be too careful you know...
Ok Hot on the heels of my last post (so to speak) but when you get a good idea you just gotta let it out and shoot it! Let that creation flow....
Also don't try to do this in public with real pee. you'll get arrested!! Yeh try telling the police it was a photoshoot for flickr, a night in the cells will cool off your photographic zeal ;-)
So here's how to do it. Safely without getting and ASBO or an entry on the Sex Offenders Register... click on the bottom left corner comment
I've been struggling over the last few weeks with a bad back, so I was nice to get and with the camera today. This little chap certainly brightened up my day.
Me and my girlfriend went for a day out around Anglesey with the hope of getting to this lighthouse for sunset. It didn't go to plan and we was a bit late getting there, a 1.5 mile walk from the car park and we had missed any light. I decided to take a pic anyway to see what i could get and this is it. A lovely place to visit and will definitely go back there again.... but this time in the daytime, the walk back to the car park was tricky in total darkness trying to find the car park again
A sunken lane, three quarters of a mile long. Narrow, dark, mysterious. It’s quiet here, aside from the odd rustle in the brambles.
To travel its length is to shuffle, wander, stoop, occasionally stumble. This is a slow place. Obscure and unpopular, it’s hidden away, and I am glad of that. It feels like mine, mine to explore and discover.
From the moment I first set foot here, I knew it was special, and the longer I spent inside, the more I was drawn back, each visit as enchanting as the last. During the weeks that I made these photographs, I dreamt of little else. Returning in my sleep, the visions were so real, so vivid, that I half expected to wake and find I’d captured new images during the night.
A tunnel of earth and nettles, roots and shadows, hundreds of years in the making. It’s utterly haunting.
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This time it’s different. At the entrance to the path lies the body of a deer. I stand and stare for longer than I should, then drag myself away, try to concentrate, and plod on.
But something’s changed - it seems smaller, closer, more restrictive. I look up, peer through the branches and catch my breath. I watch a buzzard circling overhead until it vanishes into the low cloud.
The deeper I go, the darker it gets, and it’s colder too. Maybe my time here has come to an end. Having given me so much, perhaps it’s now ready to share its secrets with somebody new.
Suddenly my heart’s racing. I panic and start to run, scratching and cutting my skin in the undergrowth. I am not welcome here. With the end in sight, I keep going, stagger into the light, and don’t look back.
In the morning of 25 September 2015, six of us were lucky enough to explore a tiny part of the land belonging to Frances and David Dover. For two of us (myself and our leader), this was our second visit - for the rest, it was a first time there. This photo was taken looking across the large pond on the Dovers' property.
I will copy and paste the description I posted on Flickr from our first visit to the Dover's acreage, on 7 August 2015:
"Yesterday, 7 August 2015, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. It was while walking around the latter that a large brown 'shape' could be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and will slip one of them into my photostream sometime soon, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that have passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for this, Frances! Yesterday, while I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45 ."
After our visit to the Dover's on 25 September 2015, I decided to drive eastwards along a road that I'd never driven before, until I reached the main road going south. From there, it was a fairly short drive to the Saskatoon Farm. As usual, I wandered round the grounds with my camera and then, when I was ready to leave, I ordered a pizza to take home with me. The inside of the gift shop has recently been renovated and they now have a pizza oven and area.
Getting Dani is like who is the quickest... :D My local BL seller had her and she sold out very quickly. Lucky he restocked and I managed to get one before she was sold out again. This past weekend he restocked again and she is still in stock. I wonder how many sets did he actually get...
And I bought some older CMFs just for those pumpkin containers... :D Didn't know they had different designs on them...
Why boxing?
It is a big question, when considering the injuries you get, and the toll it takes. Strangely it was a song, and a deep look into that song, which produced this consideration of the question. In 1982 Midnight Oil released Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers, and over 40 years later, I found some answers. To help put it in a personal perspective, it was produced when I was ten. Here is a link to it on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_TxQ-Aarc if you haven’t heard it, or haven’t heard it recently. My recommendation is that you play it with a good dose of volume, through the best audio you can get, it is worth it. It is a brilliant track to listen to, with wonderful audio engineering involved. An exceptional recording, which was meant to highlight the issue of worker exploitation, and for me it does, but probably not in the way, they thought it would affect someone.
It is a song, sung about, the reported, and or supposed exploitation of Australian Aboriginal boxers, by an Australian Boxing promoter, and those, that use to be voyeurs of his mobile itinerant boxing tent. But where the band, may have had a heart felt or genuine concern, they had an upper class, modern Christian puritan lack of pragmatism. A lack of pragmatism that was devoid of on the ground options, to solve the problems they raised. This is not a put down of the song, nor of the band, and it should be noted, I do not have solutions, for the issues they raise either. But the song, for me instigates the questions, where does a warrior earn his place in history, except on a battlefield? And how will he live for eternity, if he cannot father a child, or children? The legacy of their song was in part, that the band had metaphorically boxed many Australians regardless of race into intellectual corners. Yes, it is that deft of a song, and because of their music many copped an absolute social hiding. To use a thought generated for me by the song, and to paraphrase a little, what are we the listeners, or the Australian people, “…fighting for…”? I can only speculate on their motives, but most professional fighters fight for recognition and cash. Sharman’s fighters were, professionals, so I do not see them as an exception to the rule. In the process, were some endeavouring for the public, to “…remember their name…,” to paraphrase Brad pit from Achilles. Here is a YouTube link to Brad Pits portrayal of Achilles for you to consider, the motives of a warrior www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-TrC03Aklo
Let us have a look.
Where they, or are they, fighting for the not so grand but ever so humble, and idealistic, but not so attainable these days white picket fence? Or was it a fight, so that they would live in a double brick, with a special roof insulation, so important, it was worth dying for. Was the only alternative for a life to revolve around pugilism? No! But the unicorn like existence, for physical labourers here in Australia, was one, that only briefly appeared, and it vanished during the eighties. It vanished in the “recession we had to have” to quote Paul Keating, an Australian Labour party prime minister. And unlike the current labouring environment, in the eighties permanent physical injury while working was commonplace.
What other choice was there for Sharman’s boxers or any boxers regardless of their race? I personally, would not begrudge a man, for trying to earn a living, or even striving for international success in the ring? And that, is with all due respect, to the brain damage that most certainly happens. How could I be dismissive of brain damage? Well, I am not, as when it happens it is serious. And to qualify my statement, after having suffered brain injuries from being knocked out, on more than one occasion, while ironically being paid less than Jimmy Sharman’s boxers, or if I am honest, being paid nothing at all, I do appreciate what it does to a person, on a very personal level. I have a firsthand appreciation of the effects of being hit hard, but after doing a repeated cost benefit analysis, I still concluded, even after an additional risk analysis, that it might not have stopped me giving it a go, despite being confronted with a recurring conclusion, of permanent injury, as being foreseeable. Why?
Being trapped in a job that is going nowhere fast, for an exceptionally long time, and while earning so little that I would never be considered to father children, is not a good thing. In those type of jobs, and I have done them, you can break your body for very little net reward, sometimes none. With little to no chance to father a child or children, where is the incentive to even exist, let alone not take a gamble with your life. In a breakdown of natural, or genetically gifted aptitudes, what happens to the man, a man who his best chance of survival, and having, or fathering children, is aided by skill of his fists? What happens if he has nowhere to legally fight? What happens to the professional fighter without a promoter? Unfortunately, the band may not have had lyrical space to delve into it, but the universal struggle, that of fighting for your life, still occurs. It may not be your chosen battlefield, but it is someone’s. It is a battle where it does not matter if you are white or Black, and Sharman had both in his tent. If the choice were to slowly die, or fight for your life, the choice for me at least, becomes academic. It makes for me, the consideration of getting in the ring, not such a crazy option, although I am too old, slow, and broken for it now. The consideration of being exploited, as we all are at work, one way or another, when considered, or compared, to a childless or near eternal bread line future, is for me at least a no brainer?
After long discussions with labourers, and old men with broken bodies, black and white, friends and family. We concluded that those that were meant to be, or where historically represented by Garrets political associates here in Australia, the Australian Labour Party, where always hit with the same wall. A wall, constructed with logic. It stopped us in our philosophical tracks. While we hit a wall, Garret, his band, and ideological associates seemed to hit the slippery slope instead. The law here in Australia, Garret’s first calling, nearly made Garret’s song utterly redundant, in any form of social commentary. At one time, the law here in Australia was trying to ban any, and every, physical sporting endeavour that involved injury that did not politically Aline with them, who every they were. In the process, they were neglecting the beautiful mathematics, done by John Nash, on the path of least resistance, (for lack of a better analogy, an analogy still easier to digest, than invoking the mental visual of Russel Crow staring at pigeons at least, but I will anyway). : ) Here is a link to the movies seen on YouTube if you haven’t seen it www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlSSSN7C78
They the band, and their sympathetic critics, missed the beauty of the existence of biological distributions in human populations, a beauty that exists regardless of race. Despite the plasticity of the brain and its extraordinary adaptabilities, they neglected Darwin and his survival of the fittest, and its applications to warriors. They did not see the remarkable variation that exist in all races, and the potential of how Darwin’s theory would play out, on any group, they were trying to exclude from its best, or strongest natural aptitude. Not all people are cut out to do white collar jobs, and not all people can box. To miss quote Nash’s work to the extreme, find your niche. The wall we hit every time when it came to discussions on boxing, was why not? Why wouldn’t you take a big risk with your life in a gamble? The non-existent conundrum for me, or those I spoke to, was if you are going to end up with a broken body of a labourer, why would you begrudge the man who risks it all, to escape poverty in the ring? If the broken body is inevitable, why not try to escape poverty in the ring with the certain knowledge of permanent injury, while you are at it? Why feel pity for someone, who may, or may not, even want it? The Australian Aboriginal politician Jacinta Price said, and to quote, “the problem with the idea that there are two classes of people is that it doesn’t recognise people’s true capabilities as human beings,” “When you say I am a victim, you are effectively handing your power to somebody else.” She did not say it in relation to boxing, or anything closely, or even indirectly related, she was talking about colonialism. To me, it seemed that what she had said, was profoundly universal to not just her people, the Australian people, but everyone. It was applicable not to just her nation, but to all. It worked on multiple issues, and for me it seemed applicable to men entering Sharman’s tent and its ring.
Is it that victim hood sells albums? Is it that victimhood is an industry for some Australian Labour Party members, academics, and its political associates? The Australian Labour Party is no longer a nationalistic semi socialist group that they once were. A political party formed in 1890 to represent pastoral workers, or the working class of Australia. It has been argued that it has morphed into a mouthpiece, for groups absolutely opposed to the needs of the true working class, and especially lower income males. They failed, and fail, on many fronts, especially when it came to self-determination for blue-collar males, regardless of race. Ironically, the boxers of Sharmen’s tent were applying Nash’s rules on economics in Sharman’s tent, even if they didn’t know it. I personally find it condescending to the struggle of the men involved, and a reduction of their perceived intellect, for anyone to suggest otherwise. Yes, they did not have a beautiful algorithm as per Nash to explain what they were doing, they just knew instinctively that it was the thing to do.
When it came to men’s rights, and their capacity to earn a respectable living while labouring, they, Garrett’s old political party, the Australian Labour Party, did not publicly concede defeat on this topic. They replaced it with a fairy tale, and the idealist assumption that all blue-collar individuals will or could be all retrained into metaphorical non-back breaking jobs. It was, and has, turned out to be a fallacy. There have been workplace and safety advancements for sure, and they were welcome, but it is by the nature of the physical repetition where most injuries are unavoidable, and or unreported. If injury for some is unavoidable, isn’t it a process of self-determination by the men involved, to decide for themselves, where, and how, that injury occurs? Or if they want to box or not?
How far, they, the Australian labour party moved from its working-class mantras! And the song Jimmy Sharman’s boxers, was in part responsible for that shift. One labour politician went as far as to publicly lament, or question, who would make his café lat’e, and cook his meal for him, if it were not for mass migration! How very working class of him. His personal plight was epitomized by his self-perceived right, to be served like a historical aristocrat once was. His right to be served by those that he saw as should serve him, was more important, than trying to not dilute the ability of the working class, to use market forces to get a higher wage. And his insistence on educating foreigners on mass, before locals, made it essentially impossible for blue collar males, regardless of colour, to break the Australian glass ceiling of many, when it came to getting a higher education. His simple statement was ugly and revealing. He was either complicit, or blind, to a process of demographic social cleansing of people who no longer vote for his party. Social cleansing, is like ethnic cleansing, done along demographic lines, not along ethnic lines, and you cleans workplaces, and areas of employment with it. Potentially you take the cleansed group’s land. Not only had the Australian Labour Party, which was part of Garrett’s cohort, banned self-determination, for some socioeconomically poorer Australian males, regardless of race, some of his political group, had deemed it, that they should be waited on, by those that they saw as unfit to make up their own minds.
Regarding maiming yourself with physical labour for the profit of others, with little to no reward, the discussions I had, or have, range around what are the options? Everyone cannot be an academic, not everyone can be an international music star. Marriage until death, was essentially made obsolete by the political policies of the Australian Labour Party when they pork barrelled individuals instead of electorates, here in Australia. The result was, it was very possible, to have a broken body, no money, no woman, no shelter, and be denied the ability to father a child. So why wouldn’t you give anything a go? Why wouldn’t you even give boxing a go?
The challengers of Sharman’s tent risked public humiliation, brain damage, and broken bones for a little bit of local fame. In response so did Sharman’s men. So why wouldn’t Sharman’s men risk lifelong injury just to break the drip feed, of perpetual labouring or forever social welfare, in a system that has no reward here in Australia? Yes, it is, a near life and death competition, of man against man. To summarise the reward of the endeavour as they did to just revolve around a potential a racial exploitation for grog or dollars, as Garret and his band were speculated by some critics to have done, is to position them as academic social economic minimalists, ones that neglected the social rewards of boxing, that go beyond the publicly promoted, or visible. Strangely a member of what used to be a semisocialist group, made a song insinuating that the boxing ring of Sharman revolved around only the dollar and exploitation involving grog, physical, and alcohol abuse. Not a propaganda peace for the once Nationalist labour party, and their longest serving prime minister Bob Hawk, who had had a world record for the consumption of a yard glass of beer. They did not make a propaganda piece about the struggle of the proletariat to leave his station, or break his class barriers, or social constraints. A strange position for Garrett and his band, given his, and their political stance.
Why not risk it all? Why not try to break the cycle? A cycle that would have and see many drink themselves to death, or later in history turn to drugs in an in vain attempt to alleviate a life, which is wrongly characterised as having no meaning. Ironically while Garrett sang about alcohol abuse of Sharman’s Boxers, his political party ensured through legalisation of its legal sale, that whole communities would be exploited by the grog shops. The Labour policy would have maximum effect, on a scale that would literally leave Sharman’s men’s drinking for dead, to use and Australian euphemism. It the policy would go on, to decimate, person, after person, and child after child with the social effects. Garretts political associates would leave actual Aboriginal politicians like Jacinta Price, at wits end, trying to deal with the fall out, in her and their extended families.
Garrett sung and to paraphrase “Their days are darker than your nights, they will not be the first to fall,” but he was wrong, as sometimes they did, if you ask my dad, who went along to watch as a child. Sharman himself, had lifted the side wall of his iconic tent, to let his friends and him in. Why would Sharman have surrendered money if he were such a financial abuser? Why would he grant them entry, albeit through the metaphoric back door. Probably to make sure no one saw the non-paying underage members of the crowd enter. He let the local boys in, so that dad and his penniless mates, (and if you do not know, pennies where a coin, or pre 1966 currency, here in Australia), could see the spectacle.
For sure, Sharman’s men were not big money prize fighters, but that I presume, was not all they were striving for, they were fighting for their little piece of immortality.
Although it must be said that the drudgery of fighting so many fights would have been weathering. It should be noted that having personally lived in a tin shed, as a child during a mouse plague, and having done a lot of jobs well below that of the station of a janitor, or cleaner, does not make me bitter. I did jobs no one else wanted to do, jobs that broke my body, but that is ok as in the end I do not blame others for my choices. Correspondingly I do not blame those that chose to box in Sharman’s tent. I do not blame them for what they did, and I do not feel sorry for them either. And when it comes to fathering or having kids, both for Sharman’s men and their challengers, might just have given themselves a chance. A chance that was, and is not, available to all. Most men are unable to fight their way out of their childless and or fatherless poverty, as they cannot, or do not have that chance, and or, the natural ability! Sometimes you get, “one shot,” as M&M sung in his biographical take on his personal escape from poverty. Here is a link to M&M’s song www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuAzR2XVAM
And sometimes that shot for some, is in a boxing ring!
Regardless, of if the efforts of Sharman’s boxers were seen as insignificant, or not. Even, if it was viewed that they were not suitably rewarded, by those that did not value their skill. Despite the fighters most visible physical sacrifice, that of public corporal suffering. And without any concern, of if, it had been seen as a waisted misery, by some. It, there endeavour, was not observed for what it really was. It was a life and death fight, for life itself. A fight for an existence, and an escape from a death that many Aboriginal men would suffer, outside of those who plied their trade in Sharman’s tent. They may not have achieved the historical magnitude or status of the warrior Achillies. But by utterance of their very names, and or their families’ names, regardless of what instigated that utterance; and despite being held up for public display in a song, and branded as victims, they had hit their mark. And just like Achilles, one way or another, they would live on, forever. Somewhere, part of them would exist for eternity. They would live, not because they were victims, but because, they had deliberately fought to exist.
I was on my way home from the office on the longest day 2024. My target was the full moon rising behind Glastonbury Tor, which I managed to get and the photo has been Explored here. On my way to my shooting location I spotted this Barn owl scanning the hedgelines. My first ever shot of these majestic birds. My settings were all wrong I was in a panic as I just pulled the car over on a country lane but a great learning experience.
Canon R6m2, Sigma 150-600 Sport. Handheld - 550mm f/6.3 1/200s ISO100.
I found this single wildflower growing in a spot of sunshine along a trail in the woods - and had never seen anything like it. Dr. Huegel down in Florida tells me it's a blazing star, Liatris. Our Bot Society then told me there are 20 varieties in GA (and that they are different from the SW desert ones)! I've kept an eye on this lonesome wildflower and it has become shaggy as the tiers of buds open up.
at the woods at the wetlands, N. Georgia
Sunday prayer:
To Everything There is a Season - Ecclesiastes 3:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
To everything there is a season. Turn! Turn! Turn!
Spring, especially March, is strange - warm, cold, stormy, calm, dry and wet. Using the umbrella one day, I looked up and turned it slowly, using the camera to capture that.
From the Book of Ecclesiastes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Much better if you press L.
The site of the former boiling down works, about 1.5 km to the east of Burketown, comprises the remnant machinery of the works and a ship’s tank, scattered across a site on a silted-up meander of the Albert River. The ship’s tank may be a remnant of William Landsborough’s exploration of the region in search of Burke and Wills in 1861. An earlier boiling down works had stood operated just south of Burketown from 1866 to the early 1870s, producing cured beef and tallow. A new operation was established on this site, east of Burketown, by the Carpentaria Meat Export Company in 1892 and extended in 1893. The works was abandoned around 1904.
The grazing potential of the Gulf of Carpentaria region was identified by John Lort Stokes during his 1841 exploration in the Beagle. At the time, the area was occupied by the Mingginda People. Stokes referred to the country between the Albert and Flinders Rivers as the ‘Plains of Promise’. William Landsborough, leader of an expedition to find lost explorers Robert Burke and William Wills, also found the area promising for pastoralism. On his arrival at the ‘Plains of Promise’ in August 1861 in the brig-turned-hulk Firefly, Landsborough noted sufficient saline herbage he considered suitable for sheep. Landsborough’s party established a depot on the banks of the Albert River, where surplus provisions were buried in a ship’s tank near a marked tree (Site of Landsborough’s Blazed Tree, Albert River Depot) in case the party needed to return to the depot. Returning to Melbourne in 1862, Landsborough promoted the region through the publication of his journals and a series of lectures.
The new pastoral district of Burke was opened for settlement on the 1st of January 1864. The fledgling town of Burke (later Burketown) was established beside a port on the Albert River as squatters, wool agents and storekeepers made for the Gulf. Pastoralists took up substantial landholdings and stocked their runs with sheep, converting to cattle when sheep proved susceptible to disease. However, the isolation of the ‘Plains of Promise’ restricted graziers’ opportunities to market their cattle. Without refrigerated transport, cattle could only be sold to other graziers or driven to southern markets. Failing these options, cattle could be boiled down for tallow.
In the 19th century tallow was a product with a wide range of applications, including use in cooking, soap and candle making, and machinery lubrication. Queensland’s boiling down industry began in 1843 when Mackenzie and Co’s works opened in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. Similar establishments were opened at Ipswich (1848), Maryborough (1850), Townsville and Toowoomba (both 1866). As cattle holdings spread into the Kennedy and Gulf districts in the 1860s, a number of small-scale boiling down works were established on pastoral properties in the region. Many of these works were private operations which provided remote landholders with access to otherwise unattainable cattle disposal facilities.
Graziers did not favour boiling down their stock, as the process wasted valuable meat and reduced profits, but the process was necessary in times of economic hardship, when graziers struggled to maintain their land and livestock. In 1866, with the colony in the midst of a depression, partners Morehead & Young established a public boiling down operation on the Albert River near the Burketown settlement. Boilers, vats and other equipment were shipped from Sydney to a site south of Burketown. The works, managed by the Edkins brothers, produced tallow, beef, and sheep products between 1867 and the early 1870s. Flood, disease, and a lack of demand appear to have contributed to its closure around 1872. Disease in particular had a dramatic impact: Europeans deserted Burketown after a mystery illness swept the fledgling township in the mid-1860s, and it is believed that this disease contributed to the demise of the Mingginda people. They were succeeded by the Ganggalida people.
Cattle numbers rose in Queensland during the 1870s and 1880s. By 1885 Queensland was the principal cattle producing colony in Australia, but export opportunities remained limited. Experimentation with freezing meat for export occurred over the next decade, but the first freezing works in Queensland, the Ross River Meatworks in Townsville, did not open until 1892. In the interim, a glut of stock, a drought in 1884 - 1886 and another economic depression in the 1890s left graziers with an oversupply of cattle and few outlets for their disposal. The final straw came in 1892 and 1893 when New South Wales introduced, and Victoria increased, taxes on stock crossing the border.
As a result, the early 1890s saw a number of enterprises formed to establish boiling down operations near grazing country in northwest Queensland. One such company was the Carpentaria Meat Export Company (CMEC), registered in June 1891 with the intention of setting up a new meatworks facility at Burketown. The town had begun to repopulate in the 1880s. As a location for a cattle processing plant Burketown had a number of advantages, including its proximity to both the ‘Plains of Promise’ grazing country and coastal shipping via the Albert River. Rather than taking up the site of Burketown’s first boiling down works, the CMEC leased 22 acres (8.9ha) near the former Albert River Depot, approximately two kilometres downstream of the town.
The CMEC engaged ironmongers Burns and Twigg to design and supply equipment for their new Burketown boiling down works. Twigg & Co, later Burns and Twigg, had operated a foundry in Rockhampton from around 1877, and supplied machinery to Lakes Creek, Alligator Creek in Townsville, and the Barcaldine boiling down works. In February 1892 Burns and Twigg shipped 25 tons of machinery to Burketown, comprising ‘a pair of thirty-horse power Cornish boilers’. While installation work was undertaken, Queensland Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman was shown over the site in April 1892, a highlight of his northern Queensland tour.
With the boilers in place by May 1892, the Burketown boiling down works received 40 bullocks for its inaugural process. The stock reportedly came from Lawn Hill, a station run by former Burketown boiling down works manager ER Edkins. Burketown’s first process coincided with the opening of two other Gulf boiling down works, ‘Dalgonally’ in Normanton and the Torrens Creek works. Despite this competition, Burketown’s works had a successful first season. Cattle numbers were still rising in North Queensland, peaking at 1.3 million in 1894 but with cattle prices still low there was a market for numerous boiling works.
Machinery upgrades were installed at Burketown before the processing season began afresh in March 1893. By April 1893 the works had its own train and wharf facilities. Though the works were closed briefly following an outbreak of tick fever, the works was processing over 100 bullocks per day by 1895, including stock from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and South Australia. In June 1894 Burketown was the third largest producer of both tallow and hides and skins in Queensland, out-produced only by Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1898, the CMEC was replaced by the Burketown Meat Export Company. The works was leased to the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company, which commenced operations on the 7th of June 1898. Three days later, a steaming vat of tallow sparked a fire, and the boiling down works burnt down. Within a day, Burketown residents had raised £400 for rebuilding, and meatworks employees offered a month’s labour for rations only. The company also sought assistance from the Queensland Government under the Meat and Dairy Produce Encouragement Act (1893) to rebuild. Engineer WH Swales, a partner in the Burketown Meat Export Company, was engaged to install new machinery, while the construction work was contracted to William Brown of Townsville.
Rebuilding was completed for the 1899 meatworking season, and the North Queensland Register described the redesigned Burketown boiling down works in detail in February 1899. A new ‘imposing, substantial building’ housed the works. Equipment which had survived the fire, including the boilers, digesters and refiners, had been repaired and refitted, while new machines including an extract plant, mincing or shredding machine and a filter press and pump were added to the works. A 12 horsepower horizontal engine made by British company Tangye powered the mincing machine, dynamo and bone lift. The works also featured slaughtering pens and drying space for the hides, an engine and repair room next to the boilers, electric plant (powered by a small one horsepower engine), a manure grinding mill and a coopers’ shed where tallow barrels could be made.
By the turn of the 20th century, the boiling down works was Burketown’s major employer. The town’s population boomed from 164 to 300 during the six month meatworking season, with meatworkers, firewood getters and drovers flocking to the works. The works also provided a market for a local salt industry, as salt was used to tan hides and preserve meat. However, the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company succumbed to financial difficulties and wound up in March 1901.
The Burketown works was taken over by the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company (QMEA), which was expanding its operations into the Gulf. Considerable improvements, including canning and preserving facilities, allowed for the treatment of 10, 000 cattle in 1901 and 1902. QMEA’s November 1901 export report indicated that Burketown was the second largest supplier to the London market, exporting 1, 588 cases of canned meat and 212 casks of tallow compared to Townsville’s 7, 275 cases of canned meat and 707 casks of tallow. Dalgonally, also operated by QMEA and formerly the larger of the Gulf meatworks, exported 801 cases of canned meat and 82 casks of tallow.
Despite this apparent success, there were hints of the Burketown works’ uncertain future. Cattle numbers in North Queensland dropped to a record low in the wake of a significant drought, and large numbers of graziers walked off their runs rather than restocking. In November 1903, a QMEA director suggested that the meatworks would only operate in 1904 ‘if cattle became plentiful’, and noted that unlike freezing works, Burketown’s limited operations did not use every part of the processed animals. Operations at Burketown were discontinued around 1904. A 1912 enquiry into the meat industry blamed transport difficulties, high wages, and lack of stock for the closure. Despite its eight year hiatus, the inquiry confirmed that the Burketown machinery was still in ‘good order’, though the meatworks buildings were reportedly being ‘eaten away by termites’.
QMEA retained the Burketown property until 1914. Rumours circulated that the buildings would be restored or removed, but the new proprietors appear to have had little interaction with the site. The buildings were removed in the late 1910s or early 1920s, possibly for reuse at another meatworks. A range of machinery was left on site, including the Burns and Twigg Cornish boilers, a Colonial Boiler and a set of vertical boilers, three engines, and other miscellany. No reference was made to the ship’s tank, though it was likely on the site at the time. Ships’ tanks were used all over Australia to store food and water. They were particularly useful in remote areas which lacked a guaranteed water supply. The tank on the site may have been left from Landsborough’s expedition: the Firefly sank in the river near the meatworks site, and an attempt to salvage two of her tanks was made some time in the 19th century. The tank has no other identification, such as a maker’s mark; these marks were usually on the tank lid, which has not survived.
From June 1917 the Burketown lease (Special Lease 472) was divided in two and leased to local residents, although they seem to have undertaken little activity on the site. Both tenants forfeited their leases and left Burketown by the early 1920s. The land was resurveyed as Portion 78 and gazetted as a Pound Reserve in July 1926. The old meatworks equipment, machinery, bricks, and other remnants remained on site, attracting sightseers who came to visit the nearby Landsborough tree.
In 2015 the Federal Court recognised the non-exclusive native title of the Gangalidda people over the site. The site remains in the trusteeship of the Burke Shire Council.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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He is paying very close attention to my command to remain still. Right, I got lucky to find him in a stationary state for a few seconds while he scouts out another stick to get and chew up. He is a retriever so retrieve he does........sticks, rocks, bark from trees, tennis balls and many other objects that are not securely secured. Love him though. :-)
The site of the former boiling down works, about 1.5 km to the east of Burketown, comprises the remnant machinery of the works and a ship’s tank, scattered across a site on a silted-up meander of the Albert River. The ship’s tank may be a remnant of William Landsborough’s exploration of the region in search of Burke and Wills in 1861. An earlier boiling down works had stood operated just south of Burketown from 1866 to the early 1870s, producing cured beef and tallow. A new operation was established on this site, east of Burketown, by the Carpentaria Meat Export Company in 1892 and extended in 1893. The works was abandoned around 1904.
The grazing potential of the Gulf of Carpentaria region was identified by John Lort Stokes during his 1841 exploration in the Beagle. At the time, the area was occupied by the Mingginda People. Stokes referred to the country between the Albert and Flinders Rivers as the ‘Plains of Promise’. William Landsborough, leader of an expedition to find lost explorers Robert Burke and William Wills, also found the area promising for pastoralism. On his arrival at the ‘Plains of Promise’ in August 1861 in the brig-turned-hulk Firefly, Landsborough noted sufficient saline herbage he considered suitable for sheep. Landsborough’s party established a depot on the banks of the Albert River, where surplus provisions were buried in a ship’s tank near a marked tree (Site of Landsborough’s Blazed Tree, Albert River Depot) in case the party needed to return to the depot. Returning to Melbourne in 1862, Landsborough promoted the region through the publication of his journals and a series of lectures.
The new pastoral district of Burke was opened for settlement on the 1st of January 1864. The fledgling town of Burke (later Burketown) was established beside a port on the Albert River as squatters, wool agents and storekeepers made for the Gulf. Pastoralists took up substantial landholdings and stocked their runs with sheep, converting to cattle when sheep proved susceptible to disease. However, the isolation of the ‘Plains of Promise’ restricted graziers’ opportunities to market their cattle. Without refrigerated transport, cattle could only be sold to other graziers or driven to southern markets. Failing these options, cattle could be boiled down for tallow.
In the 19th century tallow was a product with a wide range of applications, including use in cooking, soap and candle making, and machinery lubrication. Queensland’s boiling down industry began in 1843 when Mackenzie and Co’s works opened in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. Similar establishments were opened at Ipswich (1848), Maryborough (1850), Townsville and Toowoomba (both 1866). As cattle holdings spread into the Kennedy and Gulf districts in the 1860s, a number of small-scale boiling down works were established on pastoral properties in the region. Many of these works were private operations which provided remote landholders with access to otherwise unattainable cattle disposal facilities.
Graziers did not favour boiling down their stock, as the process wasted valuable meat and reduced profits, but the process was necessary in times of economic hardship, when graziers struggled to maintain their land and livestock. In 1866, with the colony in the midst of a depression, partners Morehead & Young established a public boiling down operation on the Albert River near the Burketown settlement. Boilers, vats and other equipment were shipped from Sydney to a site south of Burketown. The works, managed by the Edkins brothers, produced tallow, beef, and sheep products between 1867 and the early 1870s. Flood, disease, and a lack of demand appear to have contributed to its closure around 1872. Disease in particular had a dramatic impact: Europeans deserted Burketown after a mystery illness swept the fledgling township in the mid-1860s, and it is believed that this disease contributed to the demise of the Mingginda people. They were succeeded by the Ganggalida people.
Cattle numbers rose in Queensland during the 1870s and 1880s. By 1885 Queensland was the principal cattle producing colony in Australia, but export opportunities remained limited. Experimentation with freezing meat for export occurred over the next decade, but the first freezing works in Queensland, the Ross River Meatworks in Townsville, did not open until 1892. In the interim, a glut of stock, a drought in 1884 - 1886 and another economic depression in the 1890s left graziers with an oversupply of cattle and few outlets for their disposal. The final straw came in 1892 and 1893 when New South Wales introduced, and Victoria increased, taxes on stock crossing the border.
As a result, the early 1890s saw a number of enterprises formed to establish boiling down operations near grazing country in northwest Queensland. One such company was the Carpentaria Meat Export Company (CMEC), registered in June 1891 with the intention of setting up a new meatworks facility at Burketown. The town had begun to repopulate in the 1880s. As a location for a cattle processing plant Burketown had a number of advantages, including its proximity to both the ‘Plains of Promise’ grazing country and coastal shipping via the Albert River. Rather than taking up the site of Burketown’s first boiling down works, the CMEC leased 22 acres (8.9ha) near the former Albert River Depot, approximately two kilometres downstream of the town.
The CMEC engaged ironmongers Burns and Twigg to design and supply equipment for their new Burketown boiling down works. Twigg & Co, later Burns and Twigg, had operated a foundry in Rockhampton from around 1877, and supplied machinery to Lakes Creek, Alligator Creek in Townsville, and the Barcaldine boiling down works. In February 1892 Burns and Twigg shipped 25 tons of machinery to Burketown, comprising ‘a pair of thirty-horse power Cornish boilers’. While installation work was undertaken, Queensland Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman was shown over the site in April 1892, a highlight of his northern Queensland tour.
With the boilers in place by May 1892, the Burketown boiling down works received 40 bullocks for its inaugural process. The stock reportedly came from Lawn Hill, a station run by former Burketown boiling down works manager ER Edkins. Burketown’s first process coincided with the opening of two other Gulf boiling down works, ‘Dalgonally’ in Normanton and the Torrens Creek works. Despite this competition, Burketown’s works had a successful first season. Cattle numbers were still rising in North Queensland, peaking at 1.3 million in 1894 but with cattle prices still low there was a market for numerous boiling works.
Machinery upgrades were installed at Burketown before the processing season began afresh in March 1893. By April 1893 the works had its own train and wharf facilities. Though the works were closed briefly following an outbreak of tick fever, the works was processing over 100 bullocks per day by 1895, including stock from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and South Australia. In June 1894 Burketown was the third largest producer of both tallow and hides and skins in Queensland, out-produced only by Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1898, the CMEC was replaced by the Burketown Meat Export Company. The works was leased to the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company, which commenced operations on the 7th of June 1898. Three days later, a steaming vat of tallow sparked a fire, and the boiling down works burnt down. Within a day, Burketown residents had raised £400 for rebuilding, and meatworks employees offered a month’s labour for rations only. The company also sought assistance from the Queensland Government under the Meat and Dairy Produce Encouragement Act (1893) to rebuild. Engineer WH Swales, a partner in the Burketown Meat Export Company, was engaged to install new machinery, while the construction work was contracted to William Brown of Townsville.
Rebuilding was completed for the 1899 meatworking season, and the North Queensland Register described the redesigned Burketown boiling down works in detail in February 1899. A new ‘imposing, substantial building’ housed the works. Equipment which had survived the fire, including the boilers, digesters and refiners, had been repaired and refitted, while new machines including an extract plant, mincing or shredding machine and a filter press and pump were added to the works. A 12 horsepower horizontal engine made by British company Tangye powered the mincing machine, dynamo and bone lift. The works also featured slaughtering pens and drying space for the hides, an engine and repair room next to the boilers, electric plant (powered by a small one horsepower engine), a manure grinding mill and a coopers’ shed where tallow barrels could be made.
By the turn of the 20th century, the boiling down works was Burketown’s major employer. The town’s population boomed from 164 to 300 during the six month meatworking season, with meatworkers, firewood getters and drovers flocking to the works. The works also provided a market for a local salt industry, as salt was used to tan hides and preserve meat. However, the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company succumbed to financial difficulties and wound up in March 1901.
The Burketown works was taken over by the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company (QMEA), which was expanding its operations into the Gulf. Considerable improvements, including canning and preserving facilities, allowed for the treatment of 10, 000 cattle in 1901 and 1902. QMEA’s November 1901 export report indicated that Burketown was the second largest supplier to the London market, exporting 1, 588 cases of canned meat and 212 casks of tallow compared to Townsville’s 7, 275 cases of canned meat and 707 casks of tallow. Dalgonally, also operated by QMEA and formerly the larger of the Gulf meatworks, exported 801 cases of canned meat and 82 casks of tallow.
Despite this apparent success, there were hints of the Burketown works’ uncertain future. Cattle numbers in North Queensland dropped to a record low in the wake of a significant drought, and large numbers of graziers walked off their runs rather than restocking. In November 1903, a QMEA director suggested that the meatworks would only operate in 1904 ‘if cattle became plentiful’, and noted that unlike freezing works, Burketown’s limited operations did not use every part of the processed animals. Operations at Burketown were discontinued around 1904. A 1912 enquiry into the meat industry blamed transport difficulties, high wages, and lack of stock for the closure. Despite its eight year hiatus, the inquiry confirmed that the Burketown machinery was still in ‘good order’, though the meatworks buildings were reportedly being ‘eaten away by termites’.
QMEA retained the Burketown property until 1914. Rumours circulated that the buildings would be restored or removed, but the new proprietors appear to have had little interaction with the site. The buildings were removed in the late 1910s or early 1920s, possibly for reuse at another meatworks. A range of machinery was left on site, including the Burns and Twigg Cornish boilers, a Colonial Boiler and a set of vertical boilers, three engines, and other miscellany. No reference was made to the ship’s tank, though it was likely on the site at the time. Ships’ tanks were used all over Australia to store food and water. They were particularly useful in remote areas which lacked a guaranteed water supply. The tank on the site may have been left from Landsborough’s expedition: the Firefly sank in the river near the meatworks site, and an attempt to salvage two of her tanks was made some time in the 19th century. The tank has no other identification, such as a maker’s mark; these marks were usually on the tank lid, which has not survived.
From June 1917 the Burketown lease (Special Lease 472) was divided in two and leased to local residents, although they seem to have undertaken little activity on the site. Both tenants forfeited their leases and left Burketown by the early 1920s. The land was resurveyed as Portion 78 and gazetted as a Pound Reserve in July 1926. The old meatworks equipment, machinery, bricks, and other remnants remained on site, attracting sightseers who came to visit the nearby Landsborough tree.
In 2015 the Federal Court recognised the non-exclusive native title of the Gangalidda people over the site. The site remains in the trusteeship of the Burke Shire Council.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
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We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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Another one i didn't already have, nice. These ex NX presidents arrived in 2017 to replace eldery Olympians and seem to be found on pretty much anything, from private hire to St Marys to South Holderness. I should really make myself a fleet list for Ellie Rose, so i know what to get and where.
Seen near Hedon is V429MOA, a 2000 Volvo B7TL Plaxton President.
February 20, 2014
"The greater the effort, the greater the glory." - Pierre Corneille
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It's warmed up considerably outside today; the snow was melting and the birds were singing and taunting me from way up in the tree tops.
I was outside for about an hour; just waiting for a decent opportunity to get a decent bird photo, but once again they've vexed me.
This was the best I could get; and again I had to process it quite a bit to get somewhat of a decent look to it.
I would have stayed around longer trying to get a photo in, but the school nearby was let out and all the birds flew away.
That, and the dampness of the snow melting was starting to get to me. Since it was above zero degrees Celsius I figured a coat was not necessary so I was out in just a light sweater, and what a liberating feeling that was!
It's been quite a while since a coat wasn't a must to step outside! I know it's overly optimistic and I'll curse myself later, but today felt like spring! Maybe that's just in my head; I'm so tired of winter!
Hope everyone has had a good day! Time for me to go have some homemade soup to fight the damp chill!
Click "L" for a larger view.
Short of reversing lenses this is as close as I can get, and keep any DOF.
( Augochlora Sweat Bee.) The entire head is the size of a BB.
Even though this Po-Matoran Onuku isn't the same character as Toa Hagah Onuku, my self-MOC did take a lot of inspiration from this comic version. It's just as the backstory developed, one ended up as a troublesome Po-Metru inventor and the other as a Po-Kordak war hero. Pretty much as far apart geographically as you can get, and pretty far apart in their roles. But hey, if it helps you imagine Toa Onuku looking like this as a Matoran, that's a-okay with me.
Here is something pretty cool that happened back in 2019.
This is a nearly impossible shot to get, and I have two trustworthy and respectable witnesses that will vouch this really actually did happen!
Yes BOTH of these trains are moving. Milford-Bennington SW9 #901 is inching ahead as they unload hoppers at Granite State Concrete while Pan Am local NA-1 trundles slowly east (railroad south) with Maine Central GP40 #321 and one car on the Hillsboro Branch "main" - 16 miles of excepted track that stretches from Nashua to Wilton in southern New Hampshire.
To read the full story of this day check out the long caption with this post: flic.kr/p/2jgjWir
Milford, New Hampshire
Friday September 6, 2019
LH #765 BOM / MUC
Heading to Munich on the A350 - The A350 beacon is a LED and quite bright and at night it flashes and reflects off the winglet - a shot I wanted to get and not easy so happy with the outcome
The weather forecast was promising, so it was up early to see what i could get and i was not disappointed. Lovely morning.
The site of the former boiling down works, about 1.5 km to the east of Burketown, comprises the remnant machinery of the works and a ship’s tank, scattered across a site on a silted-up meander of the Albert River. The ship’s tank may be a remnant of William Landsborough’s exploration of the region in search of Burke and Wills in 1861. An earlier boiling down works had stood operated just south of Burketown from 1866 to the early 1870s, producing cured beef and tallow. A new operation was established on this site, east of Burketown, by the Carpentaria Meat Export Company in 1892 and extended in 1893. The works was abandoned around 1904.
The grazing potential of the Gulf of Carpentaria region was identified by John Lort Stokes during his 1841 exploration in the Beagle. At the time, the area was occupied by the Mingginda People. Stokes referred to the country between the Albert and Flinders Rivers as the ‘Plains of Promise’. William Landsborough, leader of an expedition to find lost explorers Robert Burke and William Wills, also found the area promising for pastoralism. On his arrival at the ‘Plains of Promise’ in August 1861 in the brig-turned-hulk Firefly, Landsborough noted sufficient saline herbage he considered suitable for sheep. Landsborough’s party established a depot on the banks of the Albert River, where surplus provisions were buried in a ship’s tank near a marked tree (Site of Landsborough’s Blazed Tree, Albert River Depot) in case the party needed to return to the depot. Returning to Melbourne in 1862, Landsborough promoted the region through the publication of his journals and a series of lectures.
The new pastoral district of Burke was opened for settlement on the 1st of January 1864. The fledgling town of Burke (later Burketown) was established beside a port on the Albert River as squatters, wool agents and storekeepers made for the Gulf. Pastoralists took up substantial landholdings and stocked their runs with sheep, converting to cattle when sheep proved susceptible to disease. However, the isolation of the ‘Plains of Promise’ restricted graziers’ opportunities to market their cattle. Without refrigerated transport, cattle could only be sold to other graziers or driven to southern markets. Failing these options, cattle could be boiled down for tallow.
In the 19th century tallow was a product with a wide range of applications, including use in cooking, soap and candle making, and machinery lubrication. Queensland’s boiling down industry began in 1843 when Mackenzie and Co’s works opened in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. Similar establishments were opened at Ipswich (1848), Maryborough (1850), Townsville and Toowoomba (both 1866). As cattle holdings spread into the Kennedy and Gulf districts in the 1860s, a number of small-scale boiling down works were established on pastoral properties in the region. Many of these works were private operations which provided remote landholders with access to otherwise unattainable cattle disposal facilities.
Graziers did not favour boiling down their stock, as the process wasted valuable meat and reduced profits, but the process was necessary in times of economic hardship, when graziers struggled to maintain their land and livestock. In 1866, with the colony in the midst of a depression, partners Morehead & Young established a public boiling down operation on the Albert River near the Burketown settlement. Boilers, vats and other equipment were shipped from Sydney to a site south of Burketown. The works, managed by the Edkins brothers, produced tallow, beef, and sheep products between 1867 and the early 1870s. Flood, disease, and a lack of demand appear to have contributed to its closure around 1872. Disease in particular had a dramatic impact: Europeans deserted Burketown after a mystery illness swept the fledgling township in the mid-1860s, and it is believed that this disease contributed to the demise of the Mingginda people. They were succeeded by the Ganggalida people.
Cattle numbers rose in Queensland during the 1870s and 1880s. By 1885 Queensland was the principal cattle producing colony in Australia, but export opportunities remained limited. Experimentation with freezing meat for export occurred over the next decade, but the first freezing works in Queensland, the Ross River Meatworks in Townsville, did not open until 1892. In the interim, a glut of stock, a drought in 1884 - 1886 and another economic depression in the 1890s left graziers with an oversupply of cattle and few outlets for their disposal. The final straw came in 1892 and 1893 when New South Wales introduced, and Victoria increased, taxes on stock crossing the border.
As a result, the early 1890s saw a number of enterprises formed to establish boiling down operations near grazing country in northwest Queensland. One such company was the Carpentaria Meat Export Company (CMEC), registered in June 1891 with the intention of setting up a new meatworks facility at Burketown. The town had begun to repopulate in the 1880s. As a location for a cattle processing plant Burketown had a number of advantages, including its proximity to both the ‘Plains of Promise’ grazing country and coastal shipping via the Albert River. Rather than taking up the site of Burketown’s first boiling down works, the CMEC leased 22 acres (8.9ha) near the former Albert River Depot, approximately two kilometres downstream of the town.
The CMEC engaged ironmongers Burns and Twigg to design and supply equipment for their new Burketown boiling down works. Twigg & Co, later Burns and Twigg, had operated a foundry in Rockhampton from around 1877, and supplied machinery to Lakes Creek, Alligator Creek in Townsville, and the Barcaldine boiling down works. In February 1892 Burns and Twigg shipped 25 tons of machinery to Burketown, comprising ‘a pair of thirty-horse power Cornish boilers’. While installation work was undertaken, Queensland Governor Sir Henry Wylie Norman was shown over the site in April 1892, a highlight of his northern Queensland tour.
With the boilers in place by May 1892, the Burketown boiling down works received 40 bullocks for its inaugural process. The stock reportedly came from Lawn Hill, a station run by former Burketown boiling down works manager ER Edkins. Burketown’s first process coincided with the opening of two other Gulf boiling down works, ‘Dalgonally’ in Normanton and the Torrens Creek works. Despite this competition, Burketown’s works had a successful first season. Cattle numbers were still rising in North Queensland, peaking at 1.3 million in 1894 but with cattle prices still low there was a market for numerous boiling works.
Machinery upgrades were installed at Burketown before the processing season began afresh in March 1893. By April 1893 the works had its own train and wharf facilities. Though the works were closed briefly following an outbreak of tick fever, the works was processing over 100 bullocks per day by 1895, including stock from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and South Australia. In June 1894 Burketown was the third largest producer of both tallow and hides and skins in Queensland, out-produced only by Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1898, the CMEC was replaced by the Burketown Meat Export Company. The works was leased to the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company, which commenced operations on the 7th of June 1898. Three days later, a steaming vat of tallow sparked a fire, and the boiling down works burnt down. Within a day, Burketown residents had raised £400 for rebuilding, and meatworks employees offered a month’s labour for rations only. The company also sought assistance from the Queensland Government under the Meat and Dairy Produce Encouragement Act (1893) to rebuild. Engineer WH Swales, a partner in the Burketown Meat Export Company, was engaged to install new machinery, while the construction work was contracted to William Brown of Townsville.
Rebuilding was completed for the 1899 meatworking season, and the North Queensland Register described the redesigned Burketown boiling down works in detail in February 1899. A new ‘imposing, substantial building’ housed the works. Equipment which had survived the fire, including the boilers, digesters and refiners, had been repaired and refitted, while new machines including an extract plant, mincing or shredding machine and a filter press and pump were added to the works. A 12 horsepower horizontal engine made by British company Tangye powered the mincing machine, dynamo and bone lift. The works also featured slaughtering pens and drying space for the hides, an engine and repair room next to the boilers, electric plant (powered by a small one horsepower engine), a manure grinding mill and a coopers’ shed where tallow barrels could be made.
By the turn of the 20th century, the boiling down works was Burketown’s major employer. The town’s population boomed from 164 to 300 during the six month meatworking season, with meatworkers, firewood getters and drovers flocking to the works. The works also provided a market for a local salt industry, as salt was used to tan hides and preserve meat. However, the Endeavour Meat Export and Agency Company succumbed to financial difficulties and wound up in March 1901.
The Burketown works was taken over by the Queensland Meat Export and Agency Company (QMEA), which was expanding its operations into the Gulf. Considerable improvements, including canning and preserving facilities, allowed for the treatment of 10, 000 cattle in 1901 and 1902. QMEA’s November 1901 export report indicated that Burketown was the second largest supplier to the London market, exporting 1, 588 cases of canned meat and 212 casks of tallow compared to Townsville’s 7, 275 cases of canned meat and 707 casks of tallow. Dalgonally, also operated by QMEA and formerly the larger of the Gulf meatworks, exported 801 cases of canned meat and 82 casks of tallow.
Despite this apparent success, there were hints of the Burketown works’ uncertain future. Cattle numbers in North Queensland dropped to a record low in the wake of a significant drought, and large numbers of graziers walked off their runs rather than restocking. In November 1903, a QMEA director suggested that the meatworks would only operate in 1904 ‘if cattle became plentiful’, and noted that unlike freezing works, Burketown’s limited operations did not use every part of the processed animals. Operations at Burketown were discontinued around 1904. A 1912 enquiry into the meat industry blamed transport difficulties, high wages, and lack of stock for the closure. Despite its eight year hiatus, the inquiry confirmed that the Burketown machinery was still in ‘good order’, though the meatworks buildings were reportedly being ‘eaten away by termites’.
QMEA retained the Burketown property until 1914. Rumours circulated that the buildings would be restored or removed, but the new proprietors appear to have had little interaction with the site. The buildings were removed in the late 1910s or early 1920s, possibly for reuse at another meatworks. A range of machinery was left on site, including the Burns and Twigg Cornish boilers, a Colonial Boiler and a set of vertical boilers, three engines, and other miscellany. No reference was made to the ship’s tank, though it was likely on the site at the time. Ships’ tanks were used all over Australia to store food and water. They were particularly useful in remote areas which lacked a guaranteed water supply. The tank on the site may have been left from Landsborough’s expedition: the Firefly sank in the river near the meatworks site, and an attempt to salvage two of her tanks was made some time in the 19th century. The tank has no other identification, such as a maker’s mark; these marks were usually on the tank lid, which has not survived.
From June 1917 the Burketown lease (Special Lease 472) was divided in two and leased to local residents, although they seem to have undertaken little activity on the site. Both tenants forfeited their leases and left Burketown by the early 1920s. The land was resurveyed as Portion 78 and gazetted as a Pound Reserve in July 1926. The old meatworks equipment, machinery, bricks, and other remnants remained on site, attracting sightseers who came to visit the nearby Landsborough tree.
In 2015 the Federal Court recognised the non-exclusive native title of the Gangalidda people over the site. The site remains in the trusteeship of the Burke Shire Council.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
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Nice light? Ok. Nice skies? Check. Nice leader? Well, two out of three ain't bad. This big EMD is decent in today's world of railroading for a leader, when you consider it could have been the GE behind it. You take what you get and run with it. The 8811 is about to cross under Calumet Ave on a nice fall day. Check.
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In 1910, Mark Twain visited Bermuda.
Upon his arrival, he penned these words: “You go to heaven if you want to, I’d rather stay here.” That attitude captures what most visitors to this island paradise feel.
In fact, Bermuda regularly beats most islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean regions in surveys of the top vacation destinations, and for good reason.
Bermuda, with its pink-tinged shoreline, relaxed island culture and rich cultural history, is truly a vacation paradise.
No matter what your activity of choice may be, you will find it when traveling to Bermuda.
Playing Sports on Land and Sea
The beautiful weather, sprawling beaches and miles and miles of coastline all add up to one thing – a destination where sports activities are abundant.
From golf and volleyball on the land to boating, fishing and swimming on the water, you will find ample opportunities to get and stay active while visiting Bermuda.
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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This is a moc I did after obtaining some new tree pieces, and bricks, it is mainly based off a friends house in China. This build will be getting and upgrade in the near future. Here is my lego discord community. it has no members and needs promotion, it is for lego fans to hang out, chat, share pictures and have fun discord.gg/rjcwB6n6
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We do once in a while have discounted luxury fine art, please do keep checking:
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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This is another image made on the Fuji X-Pro 1 with the 18-55mm lens. I had a brief burst of beautiful light just before the sun dipped below the horizon and it really made the forest glow inside.
This is an in-camera jpeg, just with a slight levels tweak and a touch of high pass sharpening - nothing else. I have yet to process the raw file.
I am now the proud owner of the brand new 23mm f1.4 prime lens for the Fuji (35mm full frame equiv). I am off to Norway in a few days to co-lead an aurora workshop north of the arctic circle so the Fuji is coming with me. I will be testing the new 23mm, as well as the 35mm and the 18-55 up there to see how the Fuji perfumes in extreme cold and also at high ISO in total darkness capturing the aurora. I will have my 5D mk3 kit too and so comparisons between cameras will be interesting.
In no way do I expect the Fuji to be as good as the 5D, but what I am keen to see is how close it gets and then weigh this against the cost of the Fuji kit as opposed to the cost (and weight) of the Canon gear.
Watch this space, and my blog at dougchinnery.com where I hope to be posting trip reports fem the arctic with early images and thoughts if time allows.
Lamington National Park includes a series of densely forested valleys and ranges rising to more than 1,100m on the crest of the McPherson Range, which marks the New South Wales--Queensland border. The park lies on the southern edge of the Scenic Rim, a chain of mountains stretching from the Gold Coast hinterland to Mount Mistake and is joined by parks, such as the Border Rangers National Park, in New South Wales.
First Nations people lived in this area, carefully managing and using its rich natural resources for thousands of years. Known as ‘Woonoongoora’ in the Yugambeh language, the mountains of Lamington National Park are sacred and spiritual, places to be nurtured and respected.
The Yugambeh family groups are identified as the Wangerriburra, Birinburra, Gugingin, Migunberri, Mununjali, Bollongin, Minjungbal and Kombumerri. They shared language, ceremonies, celebrations and economic exchange.
This kinship group used both the open forest and rainforest. Evidence of their occupation has been found in various parts of the park, including the ‘Kweebani’ (cooking) cave near Binna Burra. It is believed a traditional pathway passed through the southern section of Lamington National Park.
Lamington National Park is born—the Gazettal:
Lamington National Park has found a place in the hearts of many that have visited over the last 100 years. The campaign to preserve the resource-rich, mountainous land as national park began in the 1890s with a particularly passionate grazier Robert Collins, who, while travelling overseas, learned about the world’s first national park, Yellowstone, in the United States.
‘… within sight of Brisbane there is a fine area with a climate more equable than any New Zealand town enjoys, volcanic soil of surpassing richness, deep shady forests and scrubs, cool running streams, and splendid, bold mountain scenery.’
Mr Collins was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1896 and campaigned to have the area declared a national park. While New South Wales and Victoria had successfully declared national parks by 1900, many in Queensland still saw the land as a timber supply or potential dairy farm, and opposition remained strong. Attitudes began to shift by 1906 when the Queensland Parliament passed the State Forests and National Parks Act 1906. This led to the state’s first national park, Witches Falls (Tamborine Mountain), being declared in March 1908.
In 1911, Romeo Lahey, the engineer son of a Canungra sawmiller, joined the campaign and continued the fight after Collins’ death in 1913. Lahey argued that an even larger parcel of land should be protected, and drummed up support from locals with ‘lantern lectures’ (slide shows) and door-knocking.
In July 1915, 19,035ha of mountainous, forested land was declared Lamington National Park, in honour of the past Queensland Governor Lord Lamington. It was the state’s ninth national park, accomplished by a 20-year campaign.
Lahey and Lamington:
For Romeo Lahey, the campaign to protect the area that would become Lamington National Park would be a life-long passion that would last long after gazettal. The son of a timber-getter and Canungra sawmill operator, Lahey would often explore the surrounding region. In 1911, while studying an engineering degree at Sydney University, he returned to South East Queensland with a friend, William Potts, and documented their journey up the Coomera River to the border (McPherson Range). The article set in train his concept of a larger national park on the Queensland side of the McPherson Range.
‘…it is a land of mountains, waterfalls, valleys, rivers, scrubs, forests, magnificent panorama and charming spots teeming with native animals and plant life. Its mountains run up to 4000ft. high, and its waterfalls are not equalled outside the State. Within a five mile radius of the head of the Coomera River, there are fifty falls from 20ft to 600ft high, some of them the finest I have ever seen’.
Later that year, Lahey made his first approach to the Queensland Government for a large national park in a letter to Hon. E.H. Macartney, Minister for Lands.
‘This country contains some of the most beautiful country scenery I have ever seen…and culminates in the McPherson range in peaks over 4000ft high, from which an unsurpassed panorama is obtained over NSW and SE Queensland, including Brisbane. It is an ideal place in every way for a National Park… It will make a splendid preserve for game; at present it teems with all forms of native animal and bird life, many forms of which (e.g. lyre bird) are becoming extinct.’
In 1913, Lahey continued to write letters promoting the area of the McPherson Range for consideration as a national park to the Lands Department and copied letters to the shire councils of Tamborine and Beaudesert and then Premier Hon. D.F. Denham. He emphasised the economic and national importance of leaving scrub in rough country and articulated the responsibility of his generation in handing down to the next the ‘great heritage’ that had been handed to them.
‘I implore you in the name of, and for the sake of generations yet unborn, to vote for the immediate and total reservation of that area.’
The Beaudesert and Tamborine councils responded favourably to the idea, with the Tamborine Council supportive of the whole area being national park while the Beaudesert Council was agreeable to setting aside around 400ha for national park.
When World War I (WW1) broke out in August 1914, focus shifted away from the national park proposition. Undeterred, Lahey continued the campaign and in April 1915 he wrote to the Lands Minister, Hon. James Tolmie about his exploration of the McPherson Range. By May he had used lantern lectures (slide shows) and canvassed residents around the area of the proposed park for signatures on a petition in favour of the national park. He then wrote to the Minister of Lands Department advising that 521 residents of the district, a clear majority, had signed a petition in favour. He included an 11 page letter setting out 10 reasons for reserving the proposed national park; including the health benefits, the economic benefits, and the benefit to flora and fauna species preservation.
‘The reserve should be set apart for ever for the use and benefit of our people as a whole and not sacrificed to the short-sighted greed of a few.’
Following the state election and the new TJ Ryan Labor Government in May 1915, Lahey appealed to the newly appointed Minister for Lands, Hon. John Hunter, with a letter, photographs and signed petition. On 30 July 1915, the park was proclaimed and gazetted as Lamington National Park in honour of Lord Lamington.
After the area was proclaimed and gazetted as Lamington National Park, Lahey continued to fight for the national park ideal. In October 1915, he delivered a lecture to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia Queensland Branch titled ‘Some reasons why national parks should be established in Queensland, with special reference to Lamington National Park’, and called for other large areas to be reserved as national parks as well as an extension of the state forest system. While enlisted in WW1 with the 11th Field Company Engineers AIF, Lahey continued to steer discussion about the park’s management, protection of all species, its access and the naming of locations (he suggested Aboriginal words be used as placenames).
‘There is only one way to “improve” a national park and this is to leave it absolutely alone.’
Hon. J. Hunter responded:
‘I could wish that you were here to help with your advice and other ways on this great matter which although to-day is not of much consequence will to come generations be of the greatest moment because the preservation and value of these creations cannot be overestimated. …One thing I am quite determined upon and that is the preservation of the park—an heirloom to the State as nature left it.’
By September 1919, Lahey had returned to Australia and was available to act as guide for Mr J. Hunter (now Queensland Agent General elect.) on his first visit to Lamington.
Rangers of Lamington:
When Lamington National Park was first gazetted in 1915, the park was barely surveyed, and there was no protection against illegal logging and poaching. In July 1918, Lamington National Park was declared a ‘reserve for the protection and preservation of native birds and native animals’. In December that year, the Queensland Naturalists explored, collected and recorded the flora and fauna found in the remote wilderness areas of Lamington National Park. New plant species were collected and the name ‘Green Mountains’ was coined as a result of their visit.
The park remained largely unpatrolled apart from scientists and government surveyors, until early 1919, when the O’Reilly brothers and cousins, along with Mr George Rankin were appointed unpaid honorary rangers under The Native Animals Protection Act 1906. Later that year, Mick O’Reilly was made the first paid park ranger, for £4 a week, an above average wage for the time (the average wage then was about £3 18s 7d a week (3 pounds and 18 shillings 7 pennies)). Mick O’Reilly had recently returned from the WWI Middle East campaign and was charged with protecting the park boundaries against illegal logging and poaching and eventually commencing the access tracks to scenic locations.
In 1937, the Forestry Sub-Department employed Lamington’s first forest ranger, Jack Gresty, and Gus Kouskos was appointed first track sub-foreman. An official full-time national park ranger for South Queensland, George Gentry, had also been appointed. Despite the Great Depression (1929–1939), government funding was approved for construction of tracks and other facilities beginning in July 1937. With the use of relief workers, groups of up to 50 men were employed to build a large portion of the track system, much of which is still open today. It is during this time that the Main Border Track was constructed. Built in two sections; one track crew from O’Reilly’s cut their way towards a second track crew working from Binna Burra, the 21.4km Border Track cost £1080 (approx. $90,300 today) and took 17 months to construct.
Construction crews lived in tent-like accommodation and spent their days clearing trees, shifting large rocks and excavating and benching slopes by hand along the surveyed route.
Many of the techniques, such as rock wall pitching and the construction of stone inverts, are still used in track building and maintenance today.
Today, Lamington is the second-largest national park on the Scenic Rim, and is internationally renowned for its ecological importance and inherent beauty.
In 1994, Lamington was World Heritage-listed and is now part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area that was previously known as the Central Eastern Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area.
QPWS rangers continue the role of protecting and presenting this World Heritage-listed park while managing increased visitation and the demand on facilities and park infrastructure.
Source: Queensland Government: Parks & Forests (Department of Environment & Science)
Three Bald Eagles, two mature and one immature, decided to try to have a Canada Goose for lunch. It would seem the goose was over-matched, right? The Eagles took turns hovering and diving at the hapless goose but never seemed to have any luck. While the temperature seemed warm at 42 degrees, the wind was gusting over the lake at 25 mph. This made the flying a bit dicey for the raptors. One or two of the Eagles would attack for a few minutes and then rest on the ice for a few as well. The goose was holding its own with timely maneuvering and a decent defense when required. I had to leave the battle after a half hour with the three Eagles sitting on the ice and the Goose no worse for wear. I'm sorry about the image quality but this was about as close as I could get and heavy clouds really ate up the details. It was an amazing scene to watch unfold!
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Summer is here, after a long winter and cold spring. Audrey is certainly not happy about the sun and heat in Sweden, and neither is Jasper. (because he has no summer clothes)
This is about as dressed-down as he will get (and still look somewhat presentable for an upcoming meet) ;D
And CDF. Still shaking my head in wonder at how effortless it is to get, and keep, this bike moving...
*** Ecclesiastes 3 : 1-11, kjv ***
1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
2. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.
4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones togather; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
8. A time to love, and a tinme to hate; a time to war, and a time to peace.
9. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10.I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11. HE hath made every thing beautiful in His time; also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
As close as we could get, and this took some climbing.
We were amazed at how perfectly flat and well preserved the one in the lower alcove was.
(Dry Wash Cave Ruins, Abajo Mountains)
Dirty socks from walking back & forth trying to hit the button on the camera.
So, I'm trying to get a new job this Saturday, my problem is I don't have my SSC which I'm trying to get and my other problem is I only have my permit which is expired because I don't have a car to drive and I don't have insurance. I feel like I'm screwed.
Winter has been notable for its absence so far this year in Grimsby, Ontario. Instead we have had dull grey skies and temperatures just above freezing. The result is that shore ice has not formed along the South shore of Lake Ontario. One of my go-to places is Fifty Point/Kelson Beach where I can photograph the groynes, but in the absence of any decent light, I have not visited it much the past couple of months. Yesterday, I noticed the sky was showing some tendency to form visible clouds, albeit on a dark grey sky backdrop, and a skiff of snow was on the ground. But at this point I took what I could get and head over to the groynes to see what I could get. This is looking North across Lake Ontario. The groyne has lost one of the large beams that run horizontally out along the pilings. The deterioration continues (another large beam was lost two years ago) and eventually they will be completely destroyed by Mother Nature. Meanwhile, photos recording their dilapidated state continues to be a source of fascination for me. - JW
Date Taken: 2017–01-29
Tech Details:
NOTE: This image blends a conventional with a Tone-Mapped version of the same image to get the look I was after.
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Nikkor 12-24m lense set to 12mm and fitted with a 10-stop Neutral Density/ND filter (to smooth out the water surface), ISO100, AutoWB, Manual exposure mode, f/8.0, 13 sec. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image up to 9000x6000, set exposure to as-shot, enable Graduated Neutral Density/GND filter tool and use it to darken the sky slightly and bring out the clouds by balancing their tonality better with the foreground, enable highlights-shadows tool and bring up the shadows slightly, slightly increase contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly boost vibrance, sharpen, save. HDR processing/Tone Mapping in free Open Source Luminance from tif file produced from the RAW/NEF processed version in the preceding stage: The Mantiuk tone mapping model was used on a single frame so the result is tone-mapped rather than strictly HDR. Settings area as listed below. PP in free Open Source GIMP: load the original image (i.e. result from the RAW/NEF processing into a tif file) as one layer and the tone-mapped result from the HDR processing as another layer, on the original image adjust the tone curve to darken the bottom 10% of the curve slightly and then lift/brighten the mid-point of the rest of the curve slightly above the default value, set the opacity of the tone-mapped layer to 50% to show a blend of the two layers and then create a new working layer from the visible result, adjust the tone curve slightly to brighten the mid-point of the curve slightly, slightly increase contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000, sharpen slightly, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
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Luminance HDR parameter settings:
pregamma_0.5
mantiuk06
contrast_mapping_0.1
saturation_factor_0.8
detail_factor_1
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
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NS loaded coal train 430 blows eastbound through Albers, IL on a typical spring afternoon, with AC44C6M 4036 in the lead and two DPUs pushing on the rear.
With the PSR and COVID-related downturn in traffic on the Southern-West District, you kinda have to take what you can get, and with a few exceptions, most trains seem to run the wrong way no matter the time of day.
I need your help with this one....This is NOT one of my favorites shots. I don't know what it is exactly about this image, but it just doesn't speak to me. I'd love feedback from you on how you think this photography could be improved. This is a shot from the Flatiron district, also known as "Midtown South." Very cool area of Manhattan...Lots of great structures and photo ops. This was not an easy shot to get, and perhaps that is why I feel it should be better. The reason being...I was standing right in front of a subway stairwell, and a homeless man was sitting on the top step directly behind me. He was very upset with me, as I was apparently in his "space", and this invasion of boundaries led him to scream at me the entire time I was setting up and taking this picture. This experience was truly an exercise of my peripheral vision. Talk about having to "watch your back." I had one eye on my camera and the other on this guy. Ohhh, the occupational hazards of a photographer. Hehe. See and hear about more photography goodness at my blog, phusionphotography.blogspot.com
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
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We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
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We tend to celebrate light in our pictures. Understanding how light interacts with the camera is paramount to the work we do. The temperature, intensity and source of light can wield different photography effect on the same subject or scene; add ISO, aperture and speed, the camera, the lens type, focal length and filters…the combination is varied ad multi-layered and if you know how to use them all, you will come to appreciate that all lights are useful, even those surrounded by a lot of darkness.
We are guided by three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, our longing to capture in print, that which is beautiful, the constant search for the one picture, and constant barrage of new equipment and style of photography. These passions, like great winds, have blown us across the globe in search of the one and we do understand the one we do look for might be this picture right here for someone else out there.
“A concise poem about our work as stated elow
A place without being
a thought without thinking
creatively, two dimensions
suspended animation
possibly a perfect imitation
of what was then to see.
A frozen memory in synthetic colour
or black and white instead,
fantasy dreams in magazines
become imbedded inside my head.
Artistic views
surrealistic hues,
a photographer’s instinctive eye:
for he does as he pleases
up to that point he releases,
then develops a visual high.
- M R Abrahams
Some of the gear we use at William Stone Fine Art are listed here:
Some of our latest work & more!
Embedded galleries within a gallery on various aspects of Photography:
There are other aspects closely related to photography that we do embark on:
All prints though us is put through a rigorous set of quality control standards long before we ever ship it to your front door. We only create gallery-quality images, and you'll receive your print in perfect condition with a lifetime guarantee.
All images on Flickr have been specifically published in a lower grade quality to amber our copyright being infringed. We have 4096x pixel full sized quality on all our photos and any of them could be ordered in high grade museum quality grade and a discount applied if the voucher WS-100 is used. Please contact us:
We do plan future trips and do catalogue our past ones, if you believe there is a beautiful place we have missed, and we are sure there must be many, please do let us know and we will investigate.
In our galleries you will find some amazing fine art photography for sale as limited edition and open edition, gallery quality prints. Only the finest materials and archival methods are used to produce these stunning photographic works of art.
We want to thank you for your interest in our work and thanks for visiting our work on Flickr, we do appreciate you and the contributions you make in furthering our interest in photography and on social media in general, we are mostly out in the field or at an event making people feel luxurious about themselves.
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