Landscape
A Glimpse of the World that was
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Zigzag environments: Our infrastructure was forever being overgrown or burned out
Zigzag Railway upper and lower viaducts, Clarence (Jul 2019, 677kb)
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, 354kb)
Peak oil: Rapid obsolescence was just around the corner
Motorcycle parking at the top of Hill Street, North Sydney (Oct 2020, 341kb)
Retro refurb: Tranquilly versus adverse possession
Whitely Gardens on reclaimed NSW Railway land, Lavender bay in Sydney (Oct 2020, 786kb)
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, 283kb)
A crown of ashes: Every Christmas we would exchange Bushfire Survival Plans and kiss beneath the epicormic shoots
Woodford bushfire aftermath, Blue Mountains (Dec 2019, 679kb)
Onto Sydpolen: The path ahead wasn't easy, but there was no going back
Palm Jungle, Royal National Park NSW (Oct 2019, 479kb)
Past escarpment: We tended to forget how dramatic the landscape could be
The view south from Thelma Head, Royal National Park NSW (Jul 2019, 358kb)
Golden mean: The rise and fall of the west glowed with unfulfilled promise
Garawarra Ridge, Royal National Park NSW (Oct 2019, 676kb)
Rewilding: Civilisation was only a few kilometres away, although you would never know it
Magdala creek, Blue Mountains National Park (Oct 2019, 547kb)
The false autumn: The mist was smoke and haze, the leaves fallen due to drought and fire
Woodford bushfire aftermath, Blue Mountains (Dec 2019, 537kb)
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, 630kb)
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, 831kb)
Pac-Man rock: Eventually the landscape will reward us for our diligence
Florabella pass track, Blue Mountains National Park (Nov 2019, 743kb)
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.