photography
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at Stokes Hill Lookout
As mentioned in an earlier post we stopped at Stokes Hill Lookout on our way to Hawker from Blinman the day after finishing the camel trek. The lookout offered a view of Wilpena Pound after the overnight rain. The deep past of the Flinders Ranges was historically defined as terra nullius: a land belonging to no…
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Lake Frome: long history and deep time
I never made it to Lake Frome proper as we camped on a sand dune on the edge of Chambers Creek floodplain near the western shoreline of this ephemeral lake or salt pan. This stretches over a depression approximately 30 miles wide and 60 miles long It is the most southerly playa in an arc…
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Captain Sweet, the Flinders + topographics
In 1882 Sweet travelled on, and photographed along, the Great Northern Line from Port Augusta to Farina
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SA colonial photography: a note
In my search for information on expedition photography in South Australia I recently came across a book on colonial photography in Australia entitled Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography 1850-1920
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Colonial expedition photographs: an absence
I have been going through books on early photography in South Australia looking for 19th century photographs of the northern Flinders Ranges and northern South Australia. I was expecting to find examples of colonial expedition photography,
The Long Road to the North 