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Legends of the North – Akurra, the Snake

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 11, 2015
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Exploring the edges of Lake Frome in northern South Australia, an amazing mixture of textures and formations, even aboriginal culture. The lake is part of the local Dreaming story told by the Adnyamathanha people explaining how the region’s geology and species originated. According to this Dreaming story, Lake Frome was emptied of its water by the Rainbow Serpent Akurra when he ventured down […]

Rock Wallaby

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 15, 2015
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Aah, the morning sun, a favorite rock hole out of the breeze….the perfect place to prepare for the day ahead. One of the many yellow footed rock wallabies that have grown in number around the Arkaroola waterhole in recent times. They seem to be quite used to people. I made no attempt to hide my […]

The Spectacular Flinders Ranges…No 6

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 28, 2015
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Experimenting with angles and light. The window is about 5 minutes before there is a dramatic change in the landscape. The Ridgetop track, Arkaroola as not often seen.

The Spectacular Flinders Ranges…No 4

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 6, 2015
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The scrambled foothills of the Gammon Ranges. The Munyalana Valley on Wooltana Station to the left. The Gammons are just a small part of the larger Flinders Ranges.

The Spectacular Flinders Ranges…No 2

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 1, 2015
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The dawn of a New Year….. To everyone who follows the Sentimental Bloke, best wishes for a happy, peaceful and healthy year ahead. The Freeling Heights, northern Flinders Ranges.

On a Clear Day

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 23, 2014
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On a clear day you can see for a hundred kilometres or more. A real sense of space. The vista taken in by tens of thousands of people over the last fifty years who bounce along in vehicles on Arkroola’s famous Ridgetop Tour. The stark contrast of the mountains of the northern Flinders Ranges on […]

East Mount Painter Gorge

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 11, 2014
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Photographers talk generally about the Golden Hour – that hour around dawn or dusk when photography is at its best. In this case it could be filtered down to just a few minutes after the sun has risen. East Mt. Painter Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges, taken in those few precious minutes at a time when […]

Red Hat

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 28, 2014
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It is not often I get the chance to include people in a landscape, so I take the opportunity when it arises. The touch of red from the artist’s hat is a nice splash of colour amongst the stark rockface and the reflections in the waterhole. It’s been a hectic three months and it […]

Ridges

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 9, 2013
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In looking through some of the photos I have taken over the last 6 months or so, often there’s a common theme. Without a doubt there’s plenty of ridges throughout the hills and mountains of the ranges but the contrast between them can often be quite pronounced. Lets start with the powerful, rugged volcanic and […]

Bare Bones

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 16, 2013
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I took this photograph at the height of the last drought. It is of Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges with Dinnertime Hill on the left and Mt Oliphant on the right. It doesn’t look anything like this at the moment. The regeneration of bushes, trees and all sorts of smaller plant life has been […]

A Tail or Two

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 19, 2013
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I have been working on a commission at Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges recently. It required an afternoon shot, so mornings were free. It was a chance to visit a really beautiful waterhole there. I have taken photos of Arkaroola Waterhole previously in the morning light but when it has been nearly full. You […]

Bureau of Meteorology Calendar

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 8, 2012
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Each year the Bureau of Meteorology puts out a calendar of spectacular weather scenes from around the country. The 2013 Met Bureau calendar features a photos of mine of a dust storm over Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges a few summers ago. It is one of three pictures taken of the front at pretty […]

Stubbs

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 9, 2012
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Having battled to get the spectacular Stubbs waterhole into perspective in the previous photograph, it is now easier to concentrate on the actually water hole without the massive rock face it sits beneath. Nevertheless the other surrounding cliffs provide a wonderful setting for this waterhole. Over the recent drought years this was a mostly dry […]

The Skull

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 4, 2012
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The photograph is of Stubbs Waterhole along the Arkaroola Creek…..something I’ve photographed quite often but never satisfactorily. The problem is the waterhole is small compared to the towering rock face is sits beneath. Then of course there’s the position of the sun which is often putting flare all over the lens or its overhead, and […]

A Quirk of Nature

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 29, 2012
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One of the bonuses of the recent workshop at Arkaroola was coming across a really rare sight. It’s an albino yellow-footed rock wallaby. Numbers of these animals have been in decline for many years so an albino is a fairly rare creature. Apart from having a striking resemblance to a stuffed toy, the albino is […]

Workshop

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 26, 2012
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Photographic Workshops

It is really nice to come away from a workshop with a nice shot in the bag. Keith and Glenda are two lovely people who I had the pleasure of taking on a workshop at Arkaroola a few days ago. I generally start at Bolla Bollana waterhole which transforms into something new at each visit. […]

On The Road

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 15, 2012
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I found this photo after a request for an image depicting the the Ridgetop Track at Arkaroola in the northern Flinders Ranges. I wanted something that wasn’t just the usual shot of a Ridgetop tour vehicle going up Sillers lookout and I came across this,. The Ridgetop tour has been running for over 40 years […]

Station Backtrack

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 12, 2012
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Almost on the border between the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary and the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park. A painterly quality in a landscape is a bonus. Often it is hard to achieve, but this one, I think, hits the mark. For those that want the technical details the photograph was taken late afternoon a few weeks before […]

A Certain Aura

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 29, 2011
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I’ve always thought Bolla Bollana waterhole on the Arkaroola Creek had a certain aura about it. It is something that is very hard to illustrate. I’ve taken and seen a lot of a few pictures of Bolla Bollana waterhole. A couple of my efforts can be seen here and here but I don’t think I’ve […]

Ancient Rock

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On October 20, 2011
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In a post a few days ago entitled ” Disappearing Act” the emphasis in the photograph was on the massive rock formations and the strata of rock that make them up. That was Brachina Gorge in the Central Flindfers Ranges but here in the northern ranges, the rock formations are volcanic – quite different in […]

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