Monthly Archives: September 2012

Choosing a favourite photo of a favourite subject! Settlers Cottage, Burra, South Australia

Well, I’m on holidays and it’s lovely! I’m visiting my family spread all over South Australia. I deliberately brought very little with me in the way of editing software so that I would focus on holidaying and seeing family than working! Of course I have cracked a LITTLE bit. I have been taking happy snaps of my family but also throwing in some landscape photography for fun when I can. So while I can’t get right into my editing like I want to, i’m sorting, culling and narrowing down my favourites to edit when i get home and wouldn’t you know it I have TEN favourites of my favourite house!

This house is located just outside of Burra in South Australia. It’s a great little house, right on a main highway, so easy to spot and get to. I had a grand total of 10 minutes to spend photographing this house, I wish I could have stayed longer because some nice clouds rolled in as I had to leave. You have probably seen this house before. It has been photographed a LOT. Probably the most famous photo of this cottage would be the one on the cover of the Midnight Oil album ‘Diesel and Dust’. The wonderful Pete Dobre has also captured some magnificent shots of this house. Check him out if you haven’t already! He’ll rock your socks!

So here’s a couple of favourites that I have to share. I’d love to hear which one is your favourite! I cannot believe that I had no clouds for these images. It was raining and horrible on our way to Burra in the morning, so I thought for SURE I would have some really interesting cloudy skies by the time I got to photograph this house, but no, it had totally cleared up! ARGH!

This first shot is a dodgy mobile phone photo while driving to Burra Wednesday morning…I was sure we were in for a shocking day! Surprisingly it cleared and all of this cloud pretty much VANISHED!

can you believe it was the same day!