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In an ideal world the bar that drives the shears could have been better positioned but this was not a posed shot.<\/p>\n
I was more interested in framing the photo to include the dog, the window and the sponteneity of the two old shearers in conversation.<\/p>\n
It is one of my favorite images from the Commonwealth Hill Station shoot in Outback South Australia I did for the R M Williams publication “Best of Outback Stataion”s back in March.<\/p>\n
The old chap on the right is 73 years of age. He’s been shearing for 53 years and his tally is over a million sheep shorn in that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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