Sundays are great for drives in the country, even when one lives in the country! This morning a thick fog had cloaked the landscape, and stayed until after midday, so we meandered along gravel tracks, stopping many times for photos.
Panasonic Lumix DMC GX7 with 14-140mm lens. Edited with Snapseed app.
The other day I visited friends at nearby Connewirricoo (a locality, not a township), and as we were wandering around the property we came across a docile red-necked wallaby. “Oh he lives here, along with another bigger fella,” my friend told me. He barely batted an eyelid at our intrusion, slowly hopping off to a quieter patch as we passed.
According to a recent list published in a leading newspaper, my town of Harrow, in southwest Victoria, Australia, is one of Australia’s top 50 “most irresistible, exotic, historic and postcard-worthy small towns in Australia”. The list has caused a stir by many who are disappointed their favourite town wasn’t mentioned. While I understand that such a list is ultimately very subjective, I am very proud of my village and its community. Last night I paid $3 to attend a yin yoga class at the bush nursing centre, and today I wandered around the street and river in gumboots, feeling very much a part. Congratulations, Harrow – this recognition is well-earned.
At the time I took this photo, I didn’t notice that the gum trees in the background seem to echo the pose of the roadside mail boxes in the foreground.
Fujifilm X30, edits and border applied in Snapseed app.
This little slab hut is located on the western side of the Grampians. What’s particularly fascinating about it is the timber chimney – it reminded me of the old joke about the wooden car with the wooden wheels and the wooden engine that “wooden go”!
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I recently travelled to Melbourne for work. Being a passenger, I amused myself with some drive by shooting. Trawling through all the not-so-amusing resultant photos, I found this one, with a little lamb gazing longingly through the fence.
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Naturally I couldn’t pass by this simple but handsomely proportioned shed without trying to capture some of feeling of space in this coastal landscape.
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I was as excited about – and humbled by – being in this giant shed as one might be to visit the classical architecture of the ancient world.
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Standing, staring agog, in this vast, rustic cathedral of a space, I was struck with how like a streetscape the inside of the shed was, with people walking between arcades of poles up to 60 feet tall.
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