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Photographing along Station Creek on Bosworth Station in outback South Australia, I came upon this fallen myall laying as it has for many a long yerar across the rocks where it fell.
It was a strange morning's photo shoot. Ya see, I'd irrived at my camping spot after dark, getting desperate for somewhere flat and not too rocky to lie for the night. The moon, near full, was illuminating the outback landscape.
I saw in the distance, maybe half a kilometre away, by the light of the moon, a waterhole, huge, maybe several hundred metres across. What photographic opportunities would this present?
So as daylight approached I fired up the bike and headed across the rough ground towards my destination. Funny thing, though: I'd gone only fifty metres and found myself already there. Yes, the moonlight had played tricks with my perception of distance and size. The waterhole was only four or five metres across.
So I took the bike back to camp, out of the way, walked back to the waterhole and as the light increaced started photographing.
As the sun rose, I wandered along the banks of the dry creek bed and came upon the scene pictured.
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