LANDSCAPE
GALLERY
Golden City Walls
Blue Mountains, Australia.
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​Where else in the world can you find a city surrounded by golden walls?
The Blue Mountains is renowned for the blue haze seemingly standing at odds with a vast landscape saturated by green eucalypt is lined by rich golden walls in some areas over 500m high.
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HANGING ROCK
Blue Mountains, Australia.
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This slice of ancient sandstone reflects the sunlight bright. It ignores the norms of the walls in the Gross Valley and leans out in a grand golden and defiant display.
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Like fire Hanging Rock demands attention. The rock temps you to forget about the vast, open & unending valley that unnervingly drops off immediately right under your feet.​
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T H E T H R E E S I S T E R S
Blue Mountains, Australia.
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The images in this collection are a reflection of the changing atmosphere & mood found in this world renowned location. Meenhi, Wimlah & Gunnedoo will be central to any landscape photographic collection shot in the Blue Mountains. This is a record of my experiences moving around this space.
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I acknowledge & pay respect to the past, present & future custodians & elders of this landscape & the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In particular the people that lived & moved through the Upper & Lower Blue Mountains, Darug, Gundungurra, Wiradjuri, Wanaruah, Darkinjung & Tharawal people.
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SHADOW SCRIPT
This place is mesmerizing, it seems to defy gravity. Every day the light is different, altered by our atmosphere. Water vapour & dust causes the sunlight to diffuse & disperse, silently interacting with the landscape Each of the elements intertwined in a dance ensuring nothing will reflect the same light again. ​
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Early in the morning & again late in the afternoon moments of sunlight uncover intricate shape & texture on these grand walls. The hardened rock faces rise up out of the valley, often inverted, dwarfing everything else​. At odds to the way our vision works, it is darkness, the unfixed shadow that illuminates the crook & the crag, depth & render. Like a moving secret text that is every day otherwise hidden in plain sight.
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LUMENS
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We often seek shelter when bad or unsettled weather is forecast.
We plan to stay indoors for the comfort & certainty it can provide us.
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The rain, turbulent weather combine with scarped terrain offering us an uncertain perspective and the fluctuating light dances across ancient landscape. By chance and speed a photographer positions for a crescendo .
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In the uncertain weather it is true that we lose power & control and yet the uncertainty we plan to avoid is often truly wonderful, often eliciting the adventure & beauty we seek.
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THE TWILIGHT STORM
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In Australia, the lucky country, long hot summer days are often cooled by a fast moving sudden down pour of rain & storm activity that loom up in the afternoon. Here is a sequence of photos taken on one afternoon in December 2020. Large & dramatic clouds in the distance were moving closer & expanding fast. Just as the sun light dimmed & fell below the horizon, the storm flashed to life streaking in the distance.
This afternoon was a major inspiration for me to take up landscape photography. I felt incredibly humbled to witness nature in all its' beauty and terror & lucky to walk away with these single moments in time. Our natural environment is truly the most precious and priceless asset we have & I encourage everyone everyday in every choice we make to choose our natural environment.
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IMPOSING
Blue Mountains, Australia.
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Majestic
Unforgiving
Rugged, ancient & unbridled
Dangerous, mythical
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