Australian bush, Victorian Alps

[NeilL]

August (winter) 2007. My brother and his family love this area. With friends they have cycled some of its long and winding roads. It is a fragile environment, living on a razor's edge, threatened each summer with complete devastation by bushfire. It holds onto its character, though pressured by human encroachments (including a goldrush) through 50,000 years to the present moment.

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/222138366-L.jpg

[NeilL]

...another

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/222138354-L.jpg

[NeilL]

...one more
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/222138315-L.jpg

[Andy]

Hi Neil,

We had to disable attachments on Dgrin for a short time. That's why your images aren't showing.

I made it so folks could see your gorgeous images :)

Sorry for the hassle!

[Skippy]

August (winter) 2007. My brother and his family love this area. With friends they have cycled some of its long and winding roads. It is a fragile environment, living on a razor's edge, threatened each summer with complete devastation by bushfire. It holds onto its character, though pressured by human encroachments (including a goldrush) through 50,000 years to the present moment.



Hi there Neil, nice to see another Ozzie on board,
Welcome to Dgrin :clap

You should fill more out in your Profile, like your location.

You'd get some real nice shots being about that area you've taken these shots in...... wow Mountains even... :D

Gotta love those Gum Trees :thumb

Hopefully summer will not bring too many fires our way this year,
but this drought is still causing a lot of problems.

My folks had damage done to their house from the ground being
too dry, it moved.

Thanks for sharing Neil, and please keep posting :thumb ... Skippy :D
.

[NeilL]

Thanks Andy and Skippy for your responses.

My location is not fixed. I move here and there around the world. I was home last August, when I visited this area with my brother and his wife. There had been good falls of snow up on the skifields. Good rain has fallen up there more recently. But anxiety about next summer doesn't go away. Nor will the people!

I am very much a beginner snapper with a kit which would be outclassed by pretty much everyone here. Yet, I hope the photos have something of the hushed, lonely, introspective quality of our bush. It is not dramatically spectacular country, but does have a brooding, ancient feel which is addictive to some people.

[Giphsub]

Yep, it never quite gets out of your blood does it. Looking at those photos makes me really want to get back home and out into the bush. Nice :thumb