Lake Frome Archives - Peter MacDonald Photo

Frozen Waves

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 17, 2020
0 Comments

Lake Frome, Outback South Australia Interesting backstory to this image. I was working over outback salt lakes that had recent rains. We’d been shooting at high altitudes but were finished and descending as we headed for base. Sitting in the back with the door open I was watching the waves in the water below. […]

“The Bloke” on Instagram

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On September 2, 2015
1 Comments

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, […]

Lake Frome Dune

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 23, 2015
1 Comments

Here’s further evidence of the whiteness, the brilliance of the salt on Lake Frome in South Australia’s far north, particularly when it is dry. Pilots of aircraft flying low near the surface of the lake are likely to experience a phenomenon usually associated with the Antarctic or Arctic where the horizon becomes indistinct because of […]

Whiter than White

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 19, 2015
0 Comments

The whiteness of the salt on Lake Frome is startling. Whiter than white as the soap suds ad goes. I’ve been told astronauts used the salt expanse to do their white balance checks for the cameras on their space stations. The other remarkable things is the numerous sand dunes that are trapped on the salt […]

From the Air – Day One

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 12, 2015
3 Comments

Fresh rainwater surrounding islands of pristine white salt…so beautiful. Unable to get to Lake Eyre after some very heavy rainfalls a couple of months back the opportunity to fly over Lake Frome in South Australia’s vast outback was something of a surprise. After all the images of Lake Eyre that have been posted here previously, […]

Wind Blown

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 2, 2015
1 Comments

The images I have been posting about Lake Frome in recent times have centred around a sand dune location at the edge of this giant salt lake. It is hard to imagine the size of Lake Frome and like the work I did around Lake Eyre to the north, the images posted here are trying […]

A Line in the Sand

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 25, 2015
0 Comments

The link between sand and salt on Lake Frome is probably stronger than any of the rest of the dry lake system in South Australia’s Outback. Lakes Eyre, Torrens, Gairdner and the other smaller ones that cover large areas of the deserts have little in common with Frome. This is where the salt along one […]

Shores of Lake Frome

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 21, 2015
0 Comments

Lake Frome in South Australia’s far north is a a bit over two and a half thousand square kilometres of salt, glaringly bright in the heat of the day, deceptively beautiful on the first light of the day. Occasionally a rabbit scampers from one clump of bushes to another along the shoreline. You wonder how […]

Legends of the North – Akurra, the Snake

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 11, 2015
0 Comments

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 […]

Lake Frome – A World of Salt

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 1, 2015
1 Comments

The memory of a scary night caught on Lake Eyre, not that long ago makes me very wary of driving or even walking on salt lakes. The surface is treacherous. Underneath is thick, deep black mud, about the constituency of treacle. Not something to get caught in as I did. Of course the salt eventually […]