Category: Coorong
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The Coorong’s wetlands
The Coorong wetlands in South Australia are a Ramsar listed wetland and is often seen as natural, given that it is national park. But it is deeply historical as it has been shaped by entangled changes to human and nonhuman lives.
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revisiting Salt Creek
We stayed a night at Salt Creek in the Coorong on our return to Adelaide after spending a few days on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne with family. The overnight stay allowed me to do some photography on an early morning poodlewalk around the eroded calcified limestone formations at the Salt Creek outlet…
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the photographic landscape tradition
The picturesque in Australian landscape tradition has become part of picturesque tourism and it is misleading in so far as there is no reference to human presence or activity, no visible signs of natural history, no scars from taming the wild river to make it suitable to extract water for irrigated agriculture, towns and cities.
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Photography in the Anthropocene
It was a welcome relief to come across pockets of habitat in the Lower Lakes and the Coorong National Park that were in a healthy condition, despite the lack of river flow during the Millennium Drought (1997–2009) in south-eastern Australia. These low flows happened within the proposed Anthroprocene period, which is a time when much of…
Nourishing Terrains 