Landscape
A Glimpse of the World that was
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Tracks through the past: COVID lock-downs encouraged us to rediscover our neighbourhood
Tramway track at Darks Common, Lapstone (Aug 2021, 900kb)
Abrupt about face: The first explorers got a nasty surprise when they tried to follow the rivers inland
Glenbrook Creek boulders, Lapstone (Aug 2021, 524kb)
Features of heritage redevelopment: Mate, if you want to make an omelette then you gotta break a few eggs
1920s heritage stores at Lawson in the Blue Mountains NSW, prior to demolition in Dec 2010.
This linear panorama — divided into three strips for easier viewing — was composited by hand from 62 source images. The master image is a continuous panorama 52000 × 3300 pixels (Oct 2006, 263kb)
Temporary respite: All morning crawling over truck-sized boulders before having a break and doing it all over again
Glenbrook Gorge, Lapstone (Aug 2021, 608kb)
Leave No Trace: There will come a time when it will be hard to believe we were ever here
Fern Dell, Springwood Blue Mountains National Park (Oct 2019, 836kb)
Beneath the steps: The smallest details were often overlooked
Sassafras Gully Track, near Springwood (Aug 2021, 631kb)
The way out was not easy: The unprecedented was discreetly normalised
Florabella pass track, Blue Mountains National Park (Nov 2019, 792kb)
Peak oil: Rapid obsolescence was just around the corner
Motorcycle parking at the top of Hill Street, North Sydney (Oct 2020, 343kb)
Golden mean: The rise and fall of the west glowed with unfulfilled promise
Garawarra Ridge, Royal National Park NSW (Oct 2019, 629kb)
Precipitous descent: Decades of wandering through a hostile terrain, only to flounder in the sea
Ocean cliffs south of Little Marley, Royal National Park NSW (Aug 2020, 428kb)
Past escarpment: It was easy to forget how dramatic the landscape could be
The view south from Thelma Head, Royal National Park NSW (Jul 2019, 464kb)
A crown of ashes: Every Christmas when pyrocumulus stretched across the sky, we would kiss beneath the epicormic shoots and exchange Bushfire Survival Plans
Woodford bushfire aftermath, Blue Mountains (Dec 2019, 736kb)
Rewilding the wilderness: Civilisation was only a few kilometres away, although you would never know it
Magdala creek, Blue Mountains National Park (Oct 2019, 732kb)
Unlimited potential: Entire hillsides of these things, just standing there not doing anything
The lower portion of the Wodi Wodi track, near Coalcliff NSW (Oct 2020, 941kb)
The false autumn: The mist was smoke and haze, the leaves fallen due to drought and fire
Woodford bushfire aftermath, Blue Mountains (Dec 2019, 735kb)
Zigzag environments: Our infrastructure was forever being burned down or overgrown
Zigzag Railway upper and lower viaducts, Clarence (Jul 2019, 717kb)
Retro refurb: Tranquilly versus adverse possession
Whitely Gardens on reclaimed NSW Railway land, Lavender bay in Sydney (Oct 2020, 789kb)
Pac-Man rock: Eventually the environment will reward us for our diligence
Florabella pass track, Blue Mountains National Park (Aug 2021, 779kb)
Across the rill and into the trees: The way out was much easier than Papa feared
Fern Dell, near Springwood NSW (Oct 2019, 755kb)
Notes
These images are multi-shot panoramas, typically 120° wide and 38° vertical
They were assembled from 6−10 rectilinear images, shot in portrait-format and aligned using a nodal camera mount. The individual shots were then “stitched” to create partial-panoramas @ 110 MPixel in size.