LIFE ON THE PLATEAU

Baring some unexpected rain in the next few days I think it's safe to say the 2019-2020 Wet season is now a wrap. And what a fun 5 months...

One of the luxuries of having 5 months to photograph a place is being able to go back and refine previous shots but under different...

Back when I was photographing architecture and mucking around with street photography in Belfast and Melbourne I used to be quite...

Can't get enough of these pre-storm skies. Just a couple of happy snaps on the iPhone.

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow... and then...

Little Mertens ain't so little at the minute. :)

I'm usually quite happy hiding behind the photos and letting the images speak for themselves. In fact, that's my general approach to life...

I don't think I've got the words to describe seeing Mitchell Falls like this first-hand. This literally brought tears to my eyes. After 7...

Maybe I spoke too soon. 258mm in 4 days. Ex tropical cyclone Esther delivered!

Book of the day: How To Survive A Flood.

While ex tropical cyclone Esther didn't deliver the really big rains I had hoped for here on the Mitchell Plateau it was a wet end to the...

The calm before the storm. Or the storm before the storm.

With ex cyclone Esther now tracking across the Northern Territory and towards the Kimberley as a possible 'landphoon' it looks like it...

Another beautiful day in Australia’s north-west. Another day of magic in the Kimberley! The spectacular Mitchell Falls/Punamii-Uunpuu at...

The cyclone delivered! 223mm of rain in less than 48hrs!! That's almost as much as October and November combined. The Wet season has...

We're getting afternoon storms most days, usually around 4 o'clock. They last for about half an hour and drop anywhere between 10 & 30mm...

A couple of snaps from along the Gibb recently on the way into Derby. Great to see the Boabs lush with green leaves again.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,...

Big black skies, Kimberley sandstone and bushfires on the horizon - a perfect slice of the Kimberley's 'Build-up' on the Mitchell Plateau.

I think if I was God I would play with the clouds all day as well. When nature does its thing there's no need for fancy photography -...