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I took this picture recently on a hot sunny day while driving from Sydney to Canberra. The Wind Mills are the Capital Wind Farm which is around 30 kilometres (19 mi) north east of Canberra. It is the largest wind farm in New South Wales.
An old shot from 2018 from a trip from Sydney to Perth and back. This was from our roadside camp just out of Esperance W.A.
sunrise near Roma, Queensland, the clouds were hanging in small clumps that were glowing red as the sunlight hit them.
Revisiting some photos from the very heart of Australia. The locals say that More people have been to the South Pole than have been here. The only sound that could be heard was the hooves of a quickly approaching brumby looking for water.
Not quite as wild as in Down Under, but disturbing enough in civilised Hertfordshire. It actually is the policy of the National Trust, owner of these woods, to keep them as natural as possible which is a difficult task as the woods are open to the public. So, you watch out for branches that are about to fall or have already broken off the tree. Photographically speaking, this is wunderbar. Leica M Mono, Voigtlander CS 2.2/50.
Having dropped 2820 off at Cloncurry, 2805 and 2844 continue West away from Malbon with 6M40 bound for Mount Isa.
Saturday 23rd July 2022
Fenceline near Lake Frome. It is hard to imagine what creature would have been farmed out here that required fencing. I suspect sheep, goats & cattle but that was long ago.
Ghan liveried locos NR18,NR75 combine to work 4DA8 Ghan service from Darwin approaching the crossing loop of Chandler, north of Marla on the evening of 11-3-21
At a viewpoint near Uluru, Australia, just before sunset.
I'm not a big fan of blown out shots but for some reason this one.....
Nikon D810, Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6, @ f/5.6, 210mm
Something a bit different, for a change. If setting your camera on self-timer and taking a photo of your back is a selfie, then I guess this counts as a selfie. This is a vast salt lake a mate & I just had to take a drive on back in May on the road between Tibooburra and Broken Hill, within a 100k's or so of the Packsaddle Roadhouse. It felt like the right place to pull up a pew and have a cold beer and enjoy the incredible emptiness.
I couldn't believe the incredible quiet, like no world existed outside this vast empty isolation, only crusty salt and blue sky. And the occasional stubby of beer being opened. Other worlds is the term that comes to mind. I love the NSW outback!
We took similar pics with the chairs in lots of the places we visited, just a bit of fun 😀
Have a great week everyone!
PS If you were wondering which is me, I was the one thinking it's time to Ramble On ;)
Yancowinna Creek, a typical bed load channel, only recently activated by substantial but short-lived flood flows. Large sand banks, deep dry pools and some more abandoned concrete blocks are testament to the power of these desert streams. Yanco Glen north of Broken Hill, northwest NSW.
HD PENTAX-D FA 24-70mm f2.8
A fading vision of the Australian outback as solar pumping takes over as a more reliable source of water, galvanised simplex Windmills hold an iconic status in Australian culture pushing the frontier of settlement outwards into areas with no running surface water. Initially imported from the USA and the UK, Australian made windmills first appeared on the market from the 1870s with the development of the Intercolonial Boring Company who manufactured the first Simplex windmill. The white discoloration is a result of the salty bore water as the groundwater from overgrazed lands is becoming increasingly saline.
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Some of the best landscape shots I've never taken have been seen in my car wing mirror. They appear and disappear in an instant and are lost forever. Today's theme is wing mirror shots I've seen and captured.
Normally, I would never stop in the carriageway to take a photo, but there was no traffic on this secondary road in Outback South Australia.
This image was taken west of St George, Queensland where there is nearly zero light pollution. It was so dark when I was shooting out there I could see the starlight reflecting off my car. And so quiet I could hear my ears ringing! very spooky but very awe-inspiring!
Taken in wide angle with our drone from about 6m hight.
SW Queensland, near Eromanga
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