Taylor, did you ever come across these endearing creatures, rather than they having come across you! - green ants - very territorial critters.
No bull, I love the painting more than the photograph!! A very, very good interpretation of the scene with a sort of cubist interpretive quality to it.
I toured around Australia solo (tenting it!) in 2011 for 9 months, with highlights being Karlu-Karlu/Devils Marbles, Coober Pedy, Darwin, Kununurra, Broome and especially 80 Mile Beach, then the Gasgoyne region south down to (boring) Perth. Did some charcoal drawings of 80 Mile Beach, copping sunburn into the bargain! I do remember Edith Falls in the NT, along with the more popular (perhaps far too popular) waterfalls that doubled as famously crowded swim spots, along with Mataranka thermal pools.
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L to R: Pinhole camera 6x6 of a rock outcrop, Devil's Marbles;
Evening afterglow at Devil's Marbles, and
6x17 panorama from a home made 6x17 camera with an ancient Komuranon 90mm lens (the camera no longer survives); and Sturt Desert Pea, Gasgoyne beaches region, WA.
The two panorama prints were RA4 printed and framed; both in private collections with two Estate editions at home.
I was at Eddystone Point in 2005, camping at obscenely pretty Ansons Bay/Bay of Fires — and shot the month's travels and trevails on Kodachrome 200 (which was then processed by Stallards in Launceston)! Remember Kodachrome? Yep, thems were the good ol' days...
Have you printed and framed that image? Surely after 24 years you've made a decision...?
As @koraks observed, the colours are wild and this singular feature is one of the strongest pitches a photograph can have to carry the scene over the line.
TKN wrote: "(no, not the love-in refugees from the Age of Aquarius in the tent next door...)"
Tark: Did you ever consider joining them ...
Break-O-Day Beach - one atop the other - uncanny. View attachment 418931
Joining them?
I lived with them.
Uni gap year in 1985 was in a sharehouse at Nimbin for the full 12 months; I really did not want to leave! Address was (still is) 1 Alternative Way. One small town was like one really big family where everybody knew each other.
Nimbin is not the same now. Nor is its brother-in-arms, Mullumbimby.
That feature on the beach, the 'balancing rocks' has a name. What is it?? I have seen it before, though not from the point of view of standing on the granite massif as illustrated here.
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