This picture of a melaleuca in the morning light was made on an early trip to the Coorong in South Australia in the late 1990s. We stayed at some cottages at a property called Gemini Downs, which was just north of Salt Creek. I remember that it was very cold at night and that the heating in the cabin was minimal.
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This was an edgeland around Salt Creek and it was just outside the Coorong National Park. It used by fishermen to access the water, and from memory, there was a fishermans’ hut nearby.
The gear that I used then was the one I used when I was starting photography over again —a Linhof Technika 70 with a 6×7 film back, a Schneider-Kreuznach 100mm f.2.8 Symmar lens and Kodak Portra 160ASA.
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