Long weekend...a few pics

[kinetic]

Pic 1 is the old Mannahill Railway Station house.
I took this photo Saturday morning as the sun had just risen and I
was driving at 70kmh with the camera out the driver's side window!
I wish I had stopped and captured a better composition.
A lovely subject. Doesn't do it justice.

Pic 2 and 3 are of a replica(?) 1915 Picnic Day train wagon
which is part of a tourist photo op on the west side of Broken Hill.
Turkish sympathisers fired on the train in 1915 in what I think was the
only hostile act during WWI on Aussie soil. Several people killed including
the two Turks.

I just love the textures of old hardwood and rusty steel. Chris from
QLD (hotspur) took a photo inside his shed one day and the whole shed
oozed old world charm of rustic textures...He does it well, I can't duplicate it.

More to follow...

Steve

[bloodhound31]

Second one is great. Makes you feel close to the reality of it.

[kinetic]

A few more....

Pic 1 a creek near Mannahill S.A. after some recent rain.
Mannahill is one of my favourite dark sites.
This morning (Tues) it got down to -3C overnight :)

Pic 2 and 3 a large Orb spider under the bridge. The body was
about the size of my thumb or a 10c piece!

Pic 4 Menindee Lake regulator.
Pic 5 and 6: Pamamaroo Creek: Burke and Wills Expedition Camp
Pic 7 & 8 : Lake Pamamaroo . My son doing his first ever yabbying :)

Steve

[Liz]

Great pics & stories Steve, though flicked very quickly thru the spider ones :eyepop: ..... and the weather looked great. :)

[gary]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the nice pictures.

I thought Mannahill Station looked familiar and I checked my archive and had
snapped it in Dec 2002 on the way back from the eclipse. We probably stopped
there all but 15 minutes, but it is amazing how the human brain can recall an
arbitrary image like that.

Best Regards

Gary