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Dead Tree Dam
December 1, 2007Recent bushfires burnt the trees and more recent local floods have filled the low land that the trees stood in. It is quite a beautiful sight, and one that pays witness to the contradictions of the Australian climate, aptly summed up in the lines from the poem written in 1904, My Country, by Dorothea Mackeller:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Of course, driving past, seeing this, I had to stop and take some photos with my Diana. I have two flanking shots to this one which I will stitch together for a psuedo panorama eventually (not having my tripod or the panorama mask in the camera I simply panned the three shots as levelly as I could) which I will link to when I actually do it...A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Camera: Diana + Film: Kodak 400 VC 2
5 Responses to “Dead Tree Dam”
buddy
December 2, 2007 07:19
look out for the gurting sea though.......p.s love the photo, Cam.
December 2, 2007 07:19
look out for the gurting sea though.......p.s love the photo, Cam.
Susan S.
December 8, 2007 22:37
I love how the composition is horizontal stripes of alternating greens and blues. Australia really IS a country of contradictions.
December 8, 2007 22:37
I love how the composition is horizontal stripes of alternating greens and blues. Australia really IS a country of contradictions.
