The Big Blog
Back to the birds
Budgerygahs at FarinaI'm not sure why it's six months since my last blog, I guess I can blame COVID19? I shall wind the clock back to our Oodnadatta trip when I returned to my photographic roots somewhat and engaged with the birds and other animals. I moved...
18 June 2021
No Horizons
The Painted Hills, Anna Creek StationSometimes in the outback everything looks the same no matter which way you look. It's often flat with no apparent landscape features to guide you, no wonder many souls get lost and perish. The extraordinary mega Lake Eyre...
1 December 2020
Cosmic Blast
Maree S.A.We managed to get away from contemporary life for a few weeks to where self reliance and weather became the main focus. Traveling on the Oodnadatta Track, an unsealed road linking Maree and Oodnadatta and running just west of the vast Lake Eyre in...
17 November 2020
The Scot on the hill
Very occasionally in life I have experienced a strange feeling of having just arrived home when arriving at a place for the first time ever! The first occasion I recall this was in 1994 when I visited Ireland for the first time. I remember very much feeling...
10 August 2020
The Deity of the Desert
Cradled in the arms of the disappearing giantRecent rains in north eastern Australia have given some relief for the starved grazers and the graziers. The tributaries in the catchment of the Darling River have been flowing, birds have begun to sing again and...
31 March 2020
Love and lust under the Kissing Tree
It's hard to imagine anything more wonderful than a "Kissing Tree", especially during the present viral pandemic. This glorious Moreton Bay Fig tree planted in the 1890's stands today at the top end of Perth's Murray Street. Its great branches span across...
19 March 2020
The Mail Bag tree
This venerable brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri) tree was once the local post office!When diggers were working the Blackwood Gully goldfield in the 1880's in South Australia, the mail to and from the prospectors was left in a bag hanging on a hook on...
31 October 2019
Fleeting moments
The sun perked up as we crossed the Tay Road Bridge in DundeeThe weather hasn't been too kind over the past month, actually it's been pretty drizzerable with rain falling everywhere we have been every day. The few exceptions being a couple of days on the Isle...
6 September 2019
The words unsaid
The master, John McGuinness on the run down Bray Hill.Our trip was organised to coincide with the Isle of Man Classic TT, on the world's most famous motor racing circuit. On the first day of racing we took our spectator point from advice given in the race...
3 September 2019
Combestone tor, wind, the dart and moor
Above: into the unknown, Combestone farmOn top of a hill sit a great pile of rocks, belligerent, defying gale force winds and driving rain, at least for the moment. A few metres downslope a track winds its way slowly down the hill and onto a little shoulder...
11 August 2019