what lurks behind the shadows of the moonlight?

Olympus E330

High Dynamic Range image using Olympus E330 and PS CS2 to combine 3 exposures and then convert to sepia.

an old Maldon gold mine chimney built 1862

this is the last remaining chimney of its type in Victoria

old Castlemaine Gaol with clouds swirling around a tree

old Castlemaine Gaol with clouds - guess this is what the prisoners used to get to watch day in, day out

old Chevrolet and outdoor dunny (toilet) in Daylesford district

the Pyrenees near Avoca - dappled sunlight raking across the landcsape

don't blow - the tree might just fall - looks like it was ring-barked.

abandoned Swiss-Italian farmhouse

close up in natural colour

Grampians see more here

desolation 9 months after the bushfires - Reid's Lookout looking south

Grampians

The Balconies after sunset

Grampians

Reid's Lookout looking southeast Oct 2006

and yes ... another look at the remnants of that bushfire

Wind mill - Bacchus Marsh

dead Eucalypt - Rowsley

no rain in them clouds - near Werribee Gorge

lost dreams - Mt Blackwood farmhouse

fallen tree in gully - Werribee Gorge State Park

Ghost town - Steiglitz

dry farmlands near Werribee Gorge State Park

2007 - will the drought end or will there be more ghost towns?

sheep during drought amongst farm ruins Loddon River (now dry)

Strathloddon farmhouse ruins

railway bridge Malmsbury