{"id":70,"date":"2009-09-15T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmacdonald.com.au\/dev\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-10-19T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:44:00","slug":"the-other-face-of-the-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/2009\/09\/the-other-face-of-the-outback\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Face of the Outback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Hot-Rock-miner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Hot-Rock-miner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hot Rock miner\" width=\"463\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Hot-Rock-miner.jpg 463w, https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Hot-Rock-miner-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon is a driller working on a massive rig out on the plains east of the Flinders Ranges.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s part of a crew drilling deep into the earth&#8217;s crust to find hot rock that may one day  soon produce vast amounts of environmentally clean electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Simon was a gold miner in Zimbabwe employing 300 people before Mugabe&#8217;s regime forced him to leave.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s pretty philosophical about it  though, saying Australia is a land of milk and honey. Working three air flights from home is OK too. He&#8217; s at the drill site two weeks on and two off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just spent a few days photographing at the rig, an &#8216;Eiffel Tower&#8217; in the middle of nowhere. Pictures of that coming up later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon is a driller working on a massive rig out on the plains east of the Flinders Ranges. 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