Tark's Australian landscapes

[Tark]

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.

Taylor, did you ever come across these endearing creatures, rather than they having come across you! - green ants - very territorial critters.

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

Not that I recall. But busy at times with many other routine nuisances, big and small: fire ants, inland taipans, BIG scorpions, snakes of every shape and size like bizarre white/black-striped hoop snakes, giant wasps, tiny 'lizards' that were actually venomous snakes, feral pigs, camels and lunatic truck drivers! That's before adding infernal heat, dust storms, flooding rains, tornadoes and stone-fish .

More than a few occasions I slept on the roof my Commodore wagon at night, mostly to escape the ground heat, and so too, the odorous ferals couldn't eat me (no, not the love-in refugees from the Age of Aquarius in the tent next door... ) .

I think aboriginals on the NT like the tasty green ants for their lemon-y/citrus taste (?). Not a dish I'm inclined to fancy.

 

[Tark]

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 ...

 

[Tark]

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.

Pardon the belated reply, TKN. I do remember good old Kodachrome well, and also David Stallard - we had a very congenial business relationship - I spent the bucks, he supplied the goods! Stallards also processed my Fuji Super HR wedding films.

I have never printed or framed that image, or indeed any others; they take up less space in my two 2TB external drives that back-up one another.

BAY OF FIRES

 

[koraks]

Ah, that's a nice one @Tark!

 

[Tark]

Ah, that's a nice one @Tark!

Gracias señor!

 

[Tark]

Ah, that's a nice one @Tark!

Break-O-Day Beach - one atop the other - uncanny.

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

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 ...

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.

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

Break-O-Day Beach - one atop the other - uncanny. View attachment 418931

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.

 

[Tark]

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.

OMG! you were one of those free-love, free- spirted, pot smokin' hippies - I would never have dreamt ... you lucky devil...

 

[Tark]

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.

Truth to tell, I'm not sure that it has a name. I couldn't find it on Google.

 

[Tark]

As a non-resident of NSW I am eligible for an"OPAL (travel) CARD" that allows the holder unlimited travel on all public transport in Sydney, capped at around $2 per day - Sydney Harbour Ferries, Suburban Trains, Light Rail, Buses, etc. Is it any wonder then that I love Sydney!

But at Bondi Junction this form of transport will cost you money!

 

[Tark]

XPT - SYDNEY to MELBOURNE TRAIN -
(She almost missed it !)

For high speed rail travel, Australia is way behind UK, USA, Japan, France, Germany, Italy etc. The XPT (Express Train) is a twice daily Melbourne-Sydney service (+900kms - 12hrs 10mins.) As a many time passenger aboard this train - if you're in a hurry I can thoroughly discourage it - at one station, a late passenger was almost left on the platform! However, aside from the rockin'-an-rollin', creakin'-an-squeakin' it is a comfortable ride with an onboard buffet service, and a generally very friendly staff.