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Lyrebird display, Dorrigo
Lyrebird display, Dorrigo Between the two waterfalls we heard him, the loudest bird in the rainforest. We crept along the…
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Boxing Day, Valla
Boxing Day, Valla Began with the roos coming our of the forest and the young joey, just two weeks or…
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Christmas Eve, Valla Beach
. . . and a few days ago I interrupted lunch with friends hearing a ruckus, and two ospreys were…
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Street photography
Henri Cartier-Bresson thought that each scene had ‘Images a la Sauvette’ a ‘decisive moment’. Some do, some don't.
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Why is the best Aboriginal art so powerful?
Song cycles are performative and enactive, an example of language, thought, gesture and action immersed in the world (in Merleau-Ponty’s…
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Clifford Possum & Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri ‘Warlugulong’ – one of the great paintings anywhere in the world
Derived from the men's secret-sacred religious world, the painting is an adaptation from this realm, deliberately manipulated to allow for…
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Letter to an older poet
In the first of his Letters to a Young Poet, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke demanded the poet pay…
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