Australia - Elizabeth Farrelly (Thu 03 Mar 2016)

water - Lake Burley Griffin / Canberra (Sat 23 Jan 2016)

Elizabeth Farrelly on Australia:

I've always loved how Australia – real Australia – is comprised of immense, aching absences; dry rivers, empty lakes, flat mountains, vanished seas.

via Indifference to water doesn't wash by Elizabeth Farrelly.

Australia - Paul Byrnes (Fri 30 Jan 2016)

Burnt Tree - Canberra (Mon 25 Jan 2016)

Paul Byrnes on Australia:

It was as if God had made the place [Australia] to scare us: black swans, hot Christmases, fires and snakes and spiders ..

via How Australia's landscape sears into our movies and inspires Looking for Grace by Paul Byrnes.

Australia - Marcus Clarke (1893)

landscape - NGA / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Marcus Clarke on Australia:

In Australia alone is to be found the Grotesque, the Weird,
the strange scribblings of Nature learning how to write. Some
see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without
perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have
not yet learned to walk on all fours. But the dweller in the
wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm of this fantastic land
of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the beauty of
loneliness. Whispered to by the myriad tongues of the wilderness,
he learns the language of the barren and the uncouth, and can
read the hieroglyphics of haggard gum-trees, blown into odd
shapes, distorted with fierce hot winds, or cramped with cold
nights, when the Southern Cross freezes in a cloudless sky of icy
blue. The phantasmagoria of that wild dreamland termed the
Bush interprets itself, and the Poet of our desolation begins to
comprehend why free Esau loved his heritage of desert sand
better than all the bountiful richness of Egypt.

via Poems, by Adam Lindsay Gordon - Preface (1893 Edition) by Marcus Clarke (Displayed at the Entrance to the Great Hall at Parliament House, Canberra).

Australia - Nisha Shrestha (Fri 11 Mar 2016)

painting (Fred Williams) - NGA / Canberra (Sun 10 Jan 2016)

Nisha Shrestha on Australia:

Australia is a wonderful place to be but we all shared the same fears. Uncertainty about a new land, leaving family in our homeland.

But we all also share the same hope for a better future. To strive and work hard for our children.

via Western Sydney migrant women find bonds in Mother's Spice at ICE in Parramatta by Lenny Ann Low.

Busy - Peter Maddison (Wed 04 Nov 2016)

abstract - Annandale (Sat 05 Mar 2016)

Peter Maddison on Busy:

staying busy helps

via Ageless Peter Maddison defies critics as Grand Designs Australia goes from strength-to-strength by Anne Brain.

Tim Winton - Mark Johnson (Thu 24 Mar 2016)

iron landscape - Alexandria (Fri 18 Mar 2016)

Mark Johnson on Tim Winton:

I'd never been to Western Australia .. Winton describes it with such love and respect and is so protective of the land that I felt like I had already known it

via Breath producer on Simon Baker tears and Tim Winton's "extraordinary" book by Harry Windsor.

Framing - Mike Johnstone (Wed 27 Apr 2016)

Landscape - Wilpena / South Australia (Tue 12 April 2016)

Michael Johnston on Frame:

The name of the game is to fill the frame

via Key Thoughts and The Zen of Fishing by Michael Johnston.