A slightly dusty scanned negative, from the archives, taken during a visit to Warrumbungle National Park about 18 years ago.

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Sunset at the Warrumbungle National Park (on a visit there 18 or so years ago).

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We came across this oil-production-related vehicle rollover during our Winter 1985 Outback trip. The vehicle was based with “Neil Mansell Transport, Toowoomba”.

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I’m still giving the new scanner a test run. Here’s a photograph from an early trip into the Outback – this would have been my third (or fourth) Outback trip.

Six of us, in three vehicles, crossed the Simpson Desert, west to east, in Winter 1985. We were following the French Line, a track made by oil exploration companies in the 1970’s.

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I’m still learning how to drive my new scanner so this gives me the opportunity to publish images from some (dusty) old negatives!

This photograph is of me taken when cross-country skiing over 20 years ago. It was taken somewhere between Perisher Valley and Charlotte Pass – I think

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While reviewing my recent photographs of christmas beetles, I realised that this photograph did a reasonable job in illustrating the hooked “claws” that the beetles have, and which they use to cling to all and everything.

[The beetle's head is on the left hand side of the image].

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Detail of the flowers on the hyacinth orchid.

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There haven’t been as many Dipodium sp. (a species of myco-heterotrophic orchids) around this year as compared to previous years. Given that we’ve all but reached the end of January, I was surprised to find this healthy specimen not too far from the house.

This one is, most likely, D. punctatum, the Hyacinth Orchid.

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I’ve no idea what a frog gets up to atop a thermometer. Perhaps it just wanted to check the temperature. [Or perhaps it's Mr. Frog checking out that he's "hot stuff" before visiting Ms. Frog?]

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