Images from the worst week of camping...ever...!

Point Hicks National Park, East Gippsland
I can barely believe i have captured any good photos on what was intended to be a photo rich week. The light was gloomy, overcast and seldom not raining. I had some very positive thinking time though, so i suppose i can count that as a bonus between the rainshowers. A lovely region, but i just picked the worst week to visit it! Luckily there were some good country op shops to make up for it...

I'm going camping...

.... back to the Gippsland/Croajingalong NP Coast
Having a week off to explore and photograph this beautiful region in more depth. Lots more photos to come next week then...

Moody Waters

Hume Dam, Albury-Wadonga

Lerderderg River, Wombat State Forest

December 25th 2011. Christmas day exploring the tranquil waters of the Lerderderg River headwaters. It eventually flows through Bacchus Marsh and out to the ocean near Geelong.

Summer Wheat Harvest

November 2011. Before i got in the harvester (I have worked on a friends grain farm for the last few years over summer) one morning I had a walk through the crop. The sound of the wind rustling all the dry wheat stalks together is a really peaceful experience. Is amazing to be in such a big sea of one plant as far as the eye can see. A day later its all cut, threshed and on the way to becoming flour.

Jan Juc Beach

Boxing Day 2011. A visit to the tranquil beaches of Jan Juc. This is near South Side of Bells Beach

Carlton Museum...Again (I love it)

November 2011. There is always a new season of light to illuminate or shadow the building that is the Carlton Gardens Museum. I love the micro scale patterns and angles of the steel panelling and the unique button head screws. Thrown in for good measure is a nice paint bomb on a high victorian wall. It looks lovely next to the weathered textures of the old paint.

Winter Lake Mountain, Six Months Ago!

May 2011. It was early winter and the first snow falls had began. Photos here are mostly taken on or near Lake Mountain. The days were crisp and the air was clean, and despite being overcast, occasionally afternoon sun would open up for some good contrasty shots. Much of the hills were still stark pencils of dead trees killed in the bushfires.

Warburton, Reservoir Wall Bridge

May 2011. Winter exploration of the Yarra Ranges yielded some interesting late afternoon  shadows from a vehicle bridge over the deep concrete spillway.