Drought Years Archives - Peter MacDonald Photo

Summer Rain?

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 22, 2021
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It’s been a long hard battle with a particularly bad drought for many people in South Australia’s outback these last few years. Fortunately some rains came a few weeks back but despite some brief appearances of wildflower and ground cover things look grim if there are no follow up rains this summer. This picture is […]

Lifeless Land.

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 23, 2020
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Outback Australia’s constant battle with drought. A lifeless landscape with the remnants of what was once the dog fence built to protect sheep grazing country from the ravages of wild dogs.

“The Bloke” on Instagram

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On September 2, 2015
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Although the pictures posted on the Sentimental Bloke website have always been randomly selected there has always been an underlying theme. For more than a decade I have been recording the ever changing cycles of nature. These cycles have included drought, flood, dust storms, good weather and bad, the four seasons, the flora, […]

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 […]

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