{"id":43,"date":"2009-08-03T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmacdonald.com.au\/dev\/?p=43"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:33:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:03:54","slug":"magnificent-gums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/2009\/08\/magnificent-gums\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent Gums"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
River Red Gums line this creek bed in the northern Flinders Ranges near a place called Mt Serle. The trees grow large and stately, their trunks always a mixture of fascinating colours, the blazing sun filtered to softness through the leafy branches.<\/p>\n
It was the middle of summer, the temperature over 40 and the gums, forming a sort of tunnel made it seem like the coolest place around.<\/p>\n
I went to the Hans Heysen exhibition that ran for several months in the Adelaide Art Gallery. In fact I went several times. What inspiration for studying gum trees…magnificent gums.<\/p>\n
These may not be in the Heysen style but he was certainly the inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
River Red Gums line this creek bed in the northern Flinders Ranges near a place called Mt Serle. The trees grow large and stately, their trunks always a mixture of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n