Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1210

23 June 2002 It was 9am when I left for my next week's job in Temora, which is a small country town in central New South Wales. Always looking for new roads to travel on, I checked my map which indicated I could head into territory I had not visited before, although it was going to be forty-seven kilometres longer. From Seymour I followed the Goulburn Highway through Shepparton and Numurkah and crossed into New South Wales near Tocumwal. I was now on the Newell Highway; it was only a few weeks ago when I was in this area, working in Griffith. Just north of Jerilderie, the landscape doesn't change much. It's mainly farming country with both grain or sheep in the paddocks. I continued on the Newell Highway through the town of Narrandera where the ... read more

2 June 2002 I followed my usual direction through Yea, Seymour. When I was near the Shepparton airport I saw a yellow stunt plane fly low over the runway. It was about five hundred feet high and did three victory rolls before climbing high into the sky. As it reached a pre-determined altitude it rolled over and dived for the ground, pulling out at the last minute close to the runway then did another circuit of the airport. I pulled the car to the side of the road got my video camera out and ran across to the airport. I was just in time to watch the yellow plane land. I waited for about twenty minutes to see if it would take off again. It did, I was ready this time with the video camera. I ... read more

19 May 2002 I made sure my fuel tank was full before leaving for my journey into NSW. The trip through Yea and Seymour was with overcast skys looming overhead. Every now and again spots of rain fell on the windcreen but the further from home the better the weather became. Once into NSW there was only about an hour and half of my trip left until the outscirts of Deniliquin was reached. I booked into the Centrepoint Motel just on 4 pm. That evening I went to the RSL for a meal but not before I photographed the local flocks of Corellas roosting in the trees on the banks of the Edward River. 20-21-23 May 2002 It was a couple of years ago the last time I was working in Deniliquin and I remember it ... read more

7 APRIL 2002 I started the day explaining to my girlfriend about how hard I'm finding taking photo's of little children, even after six years getting good shots of little children is not easy, what with dirty noses to wipe, children either love or hate strangers. When you get the good child in front of the camera, there might be a bunch of children standing in the background. What parent wants a picture of their child with somebody's leg or arm in the corner of the photo. I can't rely on the old saying, "If it’s a picture of my child, I will buy it" The Hume Freeway starts in the inner suburb of Coburg and finishes in Liverpool on the outskirts of Sydney. Its been said to be the most boring trip between two capital ... read more

16 May 2003 Bored with morning TV I left my motel early and arrived in Mathoura an hour before I was due to start work. Parked the car outside the centre and took a walk down to the local creek. A very sorry sight greeted me as I looked down the bank to an almost dry watercourse. It appeared that some of the water had been pumped out for the town's inhabitants, another sign of the continuing drought. The morning session went well, even though the threat of rain gave the outside activity shots some urgency. I finished around mid-day and left town for Melbourne.... read more