I am a writer and photographer, passionate about art and the natural world, and deeply concerned about the future. Wyn and I live beside Jagun Nature Reserve in Gumbaynggirr Jagun [Gumbaynggirr country]. Jagun means home/dwelling/country.
Until recently, this was a toxic dead zone saturated in poisons . . .
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The morning's highlight was not a bird, but a Koala and her young. It is ridiculous that this was a…
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A while ago I was cutting a dead branch off this very Tallowwood, when Wyn warned me - Stop! Just…
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This site has been in a renovation stage. I am gradually adding pages from the last couple of months of the pandemic project. We need (when we can) to use these strange, uncertain times to re-evaluate what is really important, and in a time of lockdown, appreciate what is in our immediacy – the natural world. Natural Aesthetics is a way to cope with the anxiety of lockdown, disease, depression, unemployment and the uncertainty of what lies ahead, a way of enjoying being alive, and also a spur to resetting how we live and recognising the damage we are (all) doing to the natural environment and all life forms. Also have a listen to An Authentic Christian Christmas: an epic two day journey across Pakistan in search of a drink (7 min).
March 5, 2021, Bongil Bongil National Park. First sunny morning for a while. After all the rain, I knew the Paperbark swamp would be a beautiful site, visually and musically, with bird song.
Bumagin, a Gumbaynggirr man arguing. Logging protests after logging began in Nambucca State Forest. This council supports logging even after the devastation to habitat caused by November’s bushfires. 15 May 2020. SEE Nov/Dec Art Almanac.
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White-faced Heron, Miilba, Valla Beach, 15 May, 2020. An elegant turn as if on a runway, unblinking eyes, perpetually wide, the sleek head delicately textured, Tang brush-strokes white and blue, Persian cobalt from the Silk Road built into a powerful weapon.
In this time of lockdown and physical distancing getting up for Eos is a joy. Let’s get some perspectives on this pandemic that has reached every country, and which the news doesn’t cover. Early posts on COVID-19 and the Cadigal peoples of Sydney and COVID-19 and Lucretius. 
Sunrise, Valla. In these times of physical distancing, Eos has become an even more healthy opportunity. 19 March, 2020
Little Corellas are/were an inland species that have started to appear in large flocks on the coast. 17 March 2020. This day is included in the Digital Album VIRUS 2020, available on Bandcamp HERE.
Young Grey-headed Flying Fox in the garden
8 Nov 2019. NEW BUSHFIRES in our region (70 today, many out of control). New analysis confirms the relationship between climate drivers such as El Niño, climate change and the Australian bushfire season. The JL/JB team made a video of a two week extract from my visual and textual journal beginning November 8 (the first signs that fires were approaching) to November 21 (with a project meeting to help restore devastated Koala habitat). You can see it HERE. 
I catch sunset smoking red-handed, a lovely scene insulated from conceding carelessness of other lives.