Early light on gum trees
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Early light on gum trees
The sun had not long cleared the horizon when I noticed that it was catching this particular group of gum trees while most of their surroundings were still in shade.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, negative scanned at 7MP.
Huck's Lookout
An easily reached little lookout just off the road from Wilpena to the Brachina Gorge.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, negative scanned at 7MP.
White gums
The low sun was catching the white bark on these gum trees brilliantly.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, negative scanned at 7MP.
Late afternoon on the Ulowdna Range
Looking toward the Wilpena Pound from near Rawnsley Park. There are many marked walking trails in the Flinders Ranges.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, negative scanned at 7MP.
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A yacca on St Mary's Peak
The primative looking plant is commonly called a yacca in South Australia, although more often known as a blackboy in Western Australia, and sometimes just as a grass tree. Its botanical name is Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata.
This view could be seen from the old trail (no longer marked or used) up the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges (and in the southern part of SA), St. Mary's Peak.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, negative scanned at 7MP.
Old house near Gulnare
A morning in autumn or early winter around 1965.
Photo taken with a Canon FT 35mm SLR, scanned at 3360 x 2240 pixels, then cropped
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Emu family
Father emu and his chicks. I believe they also baby-sit other emu chicks as well as their own.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
Overlooking Angorichina
Angorichina Tourist Village is in the middle distance. Further away, on the right, is the Haywood Range.
Taken in the early morning light.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
North from Angorichina
There is a big hill on the oposite side of the Blinman to Parachilna road from Angorichina Tourist Village. This is the view north from the top of that hill in the early morning.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
Spinifex
On the same hill. The very spiny grass in the foreground is called spinifex, Triordia irritans.
Looking toward the low sun in the early morning.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
Gums in low sunlight
The gums (Eucalypt trees) are catching the late afternoon sunlight beautifully.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
Toward the morning sun
I like the back-lighting on the ?senna bushes (see detail on the right) in the foreground and the early morning sunlight catching the tops of all the ridges marching away into the distance.
Near Angorichina Tourist Village.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
Wilpena Pound and dune
The red sand dune in the foreground sets off the impressive south-west wall of Wilpena Pound in the hazy distance.
Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, 5MP
A rare misty morning at Coober Pedy
Taken on my first visit (of very many) to Coober Pedy, in the early 1960s. There had been a substantial rain, the roads had turned to soup and we took about six hours longer than scheduled to get into this, then the only real town in South Australia north of Woomera. At that time Roxby was only a sheep station and visiters were not allowed to enter Woomera.
Coober Pedy, too, would not have been recognised by anyone who knew it in the nineties or naughties. The only accommodation at this time was a tin shed pub.
Photo taken with a Canon FT or FX 35mm SLR, scanned at 1840 x 1206 pixels