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| Category: | Landscape
Photography
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Posted: | June 30, 2012 |
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Artist Notes
Dorothea Mackellar(1885-1968) was an Australian born poet, and a truly great Australian. In 1905 she was visiting Great Britain, commonly known by many Australians at the time as the ' Mother Country', even though many of them never visited Great Britain during their life times. Dorothea, however at the age of 19 was desperately homesick. However, she was not homesick for family or friends, she was homesick for her country. So she wrote the poem "My Country", the second stanza says how she felt,namely "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains." This short stanza says a lot about what was Dorothea's country and my country. She was a proud Australian who loved her country warts and all. So do I. Also, the country she described so vividly has not changed much since 1905. This photograph does much to remind me of Dorothea Mackellar's poem. I took the shot very early one morning at a place called Netherby, which is in far western New South Wales about 10 km. From Wentworth, on the road to Broken Hill. Netherby is not far from the Darling River, our second biggest river, but the country can best be described as marginal. If it is not irrigated it is semi-desert. This piece of semi-desert had had a short sharp shower of rain overnight, which had eradicated all animal and reptile tracks, so it was absolutely pristine sunburnt country. I love the colour, and the ripples in the still slightly wet sand. This country is also quite mystical, as our Aboriginal brothers and sisters well know. At this time of the day, the only sound you will hear, except for the wind, is your own heartbeat. It is the closest you will get to nature. I used an Olympus E330 I had at the time. I have no record of settings, but I was using a zoom lens at a wide angle setting. Can you hear your heart beating?
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Has been behind many lenses since the mid 1950's. Addicted to good food, wine (has a particular weakness for Roses from Provence, Anjou and even Bordeaux), a movie buff with a humungous DVD collection. Hates commercial TV. Fond of classical and some modern music. Avid reader, particularly fond of modern history, crime and thriller novels. Likes pottering around in Art Gallerys (picky about some modern art), museums and hardware stores. Travels when there are $$$$ in the bank, and writes travelogues which some people actually enjoy. Very fond of older motor cars, particularly English and European vehicles (Sunbeam, Alvis and Delage) built between 1919 and 1930, but would be happy behind the wheel of a Stutz, Duesenberg or V12-V16 Cadillac and Cord. Has owned, restored,driven and enjoyed a 1928 Sunbeam built in Wolverhampton, UK and imported to Australia the same year. Now enjoys the luxury and performance of a 1991 Lexus SC400 coupe. Loves family parties, and going out for meals wi
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