The Top End
Pigs will fly no more!
I can remember my first ever model airplane because it was the General Dynamics F-111 in USAF livery and around the time the RAAF was buying a fleet of them and soon changed it’s USAF name from the F 111 Aardvark to rename them affectionately as ” The Pig”. My model turned out to be... »
A Darwin Media Confrence
The cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove has been operating for a while now and when ever some celebrity type visits town it usually means a photo op at the cage of death, so far I have resisted making any pictures here just for the fact that it is probably only good for one... »
Featured on ABC TV
I just had a spot on the new ABC arts show, “Arts Nation”, see it here , 2 days of filming with me gamboling around the bush shooting my project 42/45, usually the only time I make it onto the box is in the background on a news job, very weird to have that... »
Mutika # 9
The day that I took this particular picture was not only marked by the fact that the town of Katherine had been inundated for the second time in a decade but it was also the day that country music legend Gene Pitney died as I was wading chest deep through the waters that covered... »
Mutika # 8
I got myself a flat tyre on the road out of Wadeye when the light started to get low more and more mutikas trying to get off the dirt to the bitumen before the sun sets because you really don’t want to be on that road at night , I took this picture and... »
Best Dressed at the Adelaide River Races redux.
Revisiting the Adelaide River Races the ladies winner of the fashions on the field was looking for a look that was to the right of Carmen Miranda and to the left of Dame Edna. »
Mutika # 7
Just goes to show that in the Top End it takes a long time for the country to dry out as we found out on the Tompkinson River flood plain near Maningrida as the Djelk Rangers and I were scouring the flood plain for a few buffalo to shoot a full 5 months... »
Best Dressed at the Adelaide River Races!
2008’s male winner of the Adelaide River Show Society (ARSS) fashions on the field is wearing a worsted woolen suit with tropicalised trousers and matching pith helmet. The outfit is topped off by dual a green can ensemble and an accessorised bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label. »
Just down the Sailing Club for a few!
Wishing a happy new year to the the good folk enjoying this view from the Sailing Club on Fannie Bay yesterday…..not bad for a few blocks from home! »
Mutika # 4
I was out in Gunbalunya (Oenpelli) in June 09 and found this Mutika, decaying gracefully, abandoned outside Anthony Murphys place on the Gunbalunya Billabong Now Murph’s a picture person and the long serving administrator, motivator, and energy source of the the world renowned Injalak Arts Centre, so when GDF contacted him about this particular... »