The Stockman
The Stockmen
By Rachael Treasure
Published by Viking
ISBN 0 670 04293 5
Here’s a fun book, a good airport novel and a rollicking read. The fact that the Women’s Weekly has chosen it for its book club will alert you to the fact that the story is more Mills and Boon than Maxim magazine, but blokes who relate (a) to the country and (b) to training working dogs will soon be absorbed in it.
Dogs, with their many and varied characters, are as important as the people in the pages.
Rachael Treasure is a Hobart girl who worked as a jillaroo before studying at Orange Agricultural College and Charles Sturt University, in New South Wales. Her first book, which was quite a hit, is titled Jillaroo.
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Wild Tasmania 2005 calendar
Wild Tasmania 2005
Photography by Rob Blakers and Grant Dixon
Online Galleries
http://www.robblakers.com
http://www.view.com.au/dixon
Wild Tasmania 2005 is a large landscape view calender, approximately 32cm across and 25cm deep. And featuring imagery from not one superb wilderness photographer but two.
Rob Blakers [see more of his work in his fabulous Leatherwood Online portfolio] covers some of the same territory as in the smaller calendar (below), but where on the occasions he’s in the same spot the pictures still look very different owing to angle or atmospherics. And in this calendar Grant Dixon takes us down into sub-Antarctic waters and Macquarie island Nature Reserve for November’s powerful, starkly beautiful image.
Wilderness Tasmania 2005 calendar
Wilderness Tasmania 2005
Photography by Rob Blakers
Online Gallery
http://www.robbblakers.com
This small calendar features more of Rob Blaker’s dramatic interpretations of Tasmania’s wilderness. For the year ahead, he journeys from Ben Lomond in the north to Schouten Island in the south, with the magnificent Tarkine Wilderness as the centrepiece.
Skip to February and on to August for a soaring view of Myrtle trees in Coupes MBo68C and E of the Tarkine. Though so many of us find is impossible to see how anyone could even think of levelling such impressive beauty, both are zoned for logging.
Photographs of untouched wilderness like these can only help keep the forest debate alive. In the meantime, all is not gloom and doom on the forest front because Rob’s photography takes in other areas where nature is left to reign supreme, such as Walls of Jerusalem National Park and Freycinet National Park.
Each month is a visual delight, amazingly different from the month before and open one month to a page.
Wilderness Tasmania 2005 Diary
Wilderness Tasmania 2005 Diary
Photography by Rob Blakers, Jon Bryan, Grant Dixon and Dave Watts
Published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo
As a line-up of Tasmanian wilderness photographers today, they don’t come much better than the one above. Their work appears throughout the diary, usually one picture to a week but the format varies so that every so often there is a double-up week for entries followed by a stunning double page spread photograph.
The latter are the Diary highlight, and for me it’s a tossup between Dawn over Barn Bluff, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, where a crescent moon hangs in deepening blue over the rose pink-rimmed land, or snow on autumn rainforest, Walls of Jerusalem, or the intricate close-up detail of myrtle in the Tarkine all by Rob Blakers.
Special mention must be made of Jon Bryan’s insouciant little fur seal and Dave Watts’ shot of a White-bellied Sea Eagle snatching up a fish.
Even dentist appointments and PAYE reminders won’t seem too bad when noted on pages opposite photographs such as all of these. They’re a promise that on other, freer days, you can take off to the great outdoors yourself. PH
Antarctica Calendar 2005
Antarctica:
Images from a frozen land
2005 Calendar
Photography by Andy Townsend & Lyn Irvine
Produced and published by Lyn Irvine and Andy Townsend
Feast your eyes on our special preview here and then get the big, bold and beautiful calendar, a whopping 35cm across and 48cm deep, with a spiral binding that gives a handy hanging hook.
Striking though the images on our site are, they are even more breathtaking when printed on glossy paper in a much larger format. Each month takes you to another aspect of the strange and eerie place we know as Antarctica or introduces you to some of furred or feathered inhabitants.
On the title page of their calendar, the publishers state they will make a donation to Greening Australia (Tasmania), who will plant a tree for each calendar produced.
As they write: “This is over 1000 times the number of trees used in the production process and sets an environmental precendent for other publishers.”
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