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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.

Frozen Waves

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 17, 2020
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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. […]

Changing Seasons

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 6, 2015
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In some ways the change in seasons is gradual. In others it comes quite quickly. It’s no so hot anymore and you realise summer is gone. The first cold weather, showers, the end of daylight saving all indications winter is not too far away. Still autumn is really the best time to be in the Flinders […]

Summer Rains and a Carpet of Green

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 11, 2015
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The recent rains have opened up all sorts of opportunities that have kept me on the road or in the air over the last few weeks. The most obvious result of those rains has been the greening of the countryside over a wide area of the Flinders Ranges and Outback. It is something of a […]

Mt. Alec in the Mist

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 1, 2015
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Mt Alec in the Elder Range is often photographed. It’s formation is spectacular, highlighted in the morning by the rising sun. A different view of the mount this morning, its peak almost hidden in the clouds still hanging around from the night’s previous storms. There has been summer rains several times in the previous weeks […]

Outback Floods in Summer

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 26, 2015
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Only six creek between me and home and the rain is falling so hard the windscreen wipers are struggling to clear the water. Summer in the Flinders Ranges and for another thousand kilometres north means occasional unpredictable rains, swollen fast running creeks and what seems like oceans of water. The next day the sun is […]

Summer Storm

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 1, 2014
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Over a number of years from time to time, I have passed this lonely skeleton standing in a tree-less plain and thought it needed a dust devil to complete the picture. Dust devils are quite common here but none came close anytime when I was there ..until by chance the God of summer storms smiled […]

Electric Light

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 16, 2014
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Electrical storms are good for photographs..either before, during or after the event. There’s a certain blue colour that not seen at other times that has been caught in this picture. The colour is quite pronounced. It’s usually seen in the afternoon on a stinking hot day when the storm clouds are building and there’s a […]

A Lack Of Colour

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On September 2, 2013
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Spring Days in the Flinders Ranges can be idyllic or windy and unpleasant. Dust storms aren’t unusual and days when raised dust leaves a a grey pall hanging in the air aren’t exactly ideal for photography – like the other day. A full blown rolling dust storm is a spectacular event.. White outs can be […]

Summer Storm

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 27, 2013
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Gum Creek Station

Bad weather is a one of the best times to get interesting photographs. A case in point is this shot taken recently on Gum Creek station in the Flinders Ranges. There’s a well known landmark on Gum Creek called the Great Wall of China. It’s a spectacular line of exposed rock atop an extended row […]

The Vagaries of Summer

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 18, 2013
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The Vagaries of Summer

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 17, 2013
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A week and a few kilometres from the location of the previous post… a dry summer storm and tonnes of top soil disappearing to who knows where.

On the Road

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 12, 2013
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Depot Springs – Disaster

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 31, 2013
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The dead trees along this creek tell a story of heartbreak and hardship. While quick and heavy falls of rain are nothing new around this part of the world, particularly in summer and often caused by thunderstorms, nothing prepared Geoff and Di Mengersen for devastating floods in April 2010. Depot Springs received about 100 millimetres […]

Depot Springs Station – Jack’s Camp

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 29, 2013
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First light at the Jack Camp yards on the Eastern side of Depot Springs station A thunderstorm approaching from the left…the sun rising on the right. A great recipe for an electric sky.

Old Stone Tank

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 11, 2013
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It was 45 degrees on my back porch this afternoon at 3 o’clock and it wasn’t much cooler when I took this photo last week. This old tank has seen a few hot summers and temperatures sometimes in the 50s. It was built in the 1870 as far as anyone can remember. Even today it […]

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 […]

Another Prairie Sunset

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 15, 2012
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Camera details: Fuji X-100 camera fixed lens. f5.6 @ 1/50th sec ISO 400

A Prairie Sunset

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 14, 2012
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This site doesn’t set out to be topical or up to the minute, but this sunset is but a little under an hour old. View from the front porch of my house – a safe place in yet another a thunderstorm. Camera Details: f6.3, exposure 23 seconds in Bulb mode ISO 100. Canon 5D Mk […]

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