{"id":3069,"date":"2012-06-24T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T08:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesentimentalbloke.com\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2012-06-24T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T08:23:25","slug":"sheep-muster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/2012\/06\/sheep-muster\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheep Muster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mustering-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mustering-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mustering 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mustering-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mustering-1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the many photos I took for a magazine article about life on a sheep station in the northern Flinders Ranges.<\/p>\n<p>I spent about two weeks taking the pictures for the story in the R.M. Williams magazine, &#8216;Best of Outback Stations&#8217;  which should be in newsagents in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on Depot Springs Station, east of Leigh Creek at the height of summer, I was able to follow Geoff and Di Mengersen and their family during the gruelling sheep muster, shearing and general station life.<\/p>\n<p>The story shares too the hardships they have had to face in recent years at the hand of mother nature and the impact wild dogs are having on their flock.<\/p>\n<p>Here Geoff Mengersen herds sheep at picturesque Jacks Camp bore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many photos I took for a magazine article about life on a sheep station in the northern Flinders Ranges. 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