Stories or articles about people, places, nature in the various states and regions of Australia.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Outback when it is wet is amazing. When it floods and takes human lives, and livestock, then it is truly terrible. The damage caused by the recent Queensland floods was so so extreme because it mainly hit the heavily populated coastal towns. Further inland, the Outback towns are used to the river channels breaking […]
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Bird Images, Did You Know?, On the Beaton Track, OutbackReading Time: < 1 minuteI arrived at Cooper Creek, in South Australia’s Channel Country, in the middle of this year’s unusual rains. The scene I planned to photograph was grey and ordinary. But after spending an hour or two – and after I stopped whinging about the gloomy skies – the real beauty of the scene emerged. To get
Magic happens when you least expect it Read More »
Did You Know?, On the Beaton Track, OutbackReading Time: 2 minutesA recent media release announced that scientists had measured the most carbon dense forest in the world. No, it’s not in the Amazon – it’s right here in Australia and I know it intimately. I worked hand in hand, for over a year, with well-known ecologist David Lindenmayer, one of the team of scientists who
Is this the Most Important Forest in the World? Read More »
Did You Know?, Ecology, Habitats, VictoriaReading Time: 2 minutesIn 1999, as I sat at this cafe in the centre of Marysville, I had no idea of the consequences of my upcoming assignment. David Lindenmayer and I were outlining the chapters of a new book, Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests, and planning my shooting schedule for the next 12 months. Over the following
Marysville, Healesville, Kinglake: Names Burned into Our Minds Forever Read More »
Conservation, Environment, On the Beaton Track, VictoriaReading Time: 2 minutesI was sitting an at Italian restaurant in Palm Desert, California with 10 members of the Desert Cities Coachella Valley Camera Club. As their guest judge, I had been invited to dinner beforehand. One of them asked what I thought of the movie “Australia”. I figured it was a trick question so I carefully answered
The movie “Australia” – what did YOU think? Read More »
On the Beaton Track, Western AustraliaReading Time: 2 minutesOne of the most significant environmental events in Australia occurred in 1983. And I was there. It was January, I was on my honeymoon with my French photographer husband, Jean-Paul Ferrero and I was on a mission to try my hand at my first ever photojournalism piece. We cruised down Tasmania’s Gordon River and camped
Photographers, Politics and the Environment Read More »
Conservation, Tasmania