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These shots at Quarry Beach,
south of Mallacoota, were taken on one day, morning & afternoon
during unsettled weather.
This section of Australia's coastline
in the Croajingolong National Park is extraordinary. Trees and
plants almost meet the sea, and the flora appears amazingly diverse.
There is also, for me, a primal quality, almost Gondwana-like,
about its forests of Banksia trees and its Heath, and the cries
of birds. The ambience is ancient, tough and very durable: in
its ordinariness it is also other worldly in the way that it
is so unmannered and seemingly elsewhere.
I was sensitive to this ordinariness
as I walked along and taking these shots, for the most part not
composing, preferring the soft brutality of this special place.
Gary Proctor |
