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Dalgety_20120720_120 Ten-Mile Stare
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Living off the fat of the land
  Mt_Townsend_Panorama1.jpg - Mt Townsend, 19 November 1862. Eugene Von Guérard’s painting North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko (1863) actually depicts a view from the top of Mt Townsend.It’s a panoramic view from near the summit of Mt Townsend in the main range of the Snowy Mountains, looking northeast across Lake Albina and Watson’s Crags to Mt Twynam and Mt Jagungal in the distance. Shown in the central foreground are the members of German scientist Georg von Neumayer’s 1862 expedition team (including Hector the dog) which was undertaking a magnetic survey of the colony of Victoria. A storm, which later visited extreme and almost catastrophic conditions upon the party, can be seen approaching from the left background. Apart from the pile of boulders in the left foreground, which do not exist in the actual location, the scene is shown with a fair degree of topographical accuracy.In my image, Von Guérard’s sketches and words from Neumayer’s journal are written onto a winter photograph of the scene.  
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Dead Horse - Ramshead
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Written on the Land

 Mt Townsend, 19 November 1862. Eugene Von Guérard’s painting North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko (1863) actually depicts a view from the top of Mt Townsend. It’s a panoramic view from near the summit of Mt Townsend in the main range of the Snowy Mountains, looking northeast across Lake Albina and Watson’s Crags to Mt Twynam and Mt Jagungal in the distance. Shown in the central foreground are the members of German scientist Georg von Neumayer’s 1862 expedition team (including Hector the dog) which was undertaking a magnetic survey of the colony of Victoria. A storm, which later visited extreme and almost catastrophic conditions upon the party, can be seen approaching from the left background. Apart from the pile of boulders in the left foreground, which do not exist in the actual location, the scene is shown with a fair degree of topographical accuracy. In my image, Von Guérard’s sketches and words from Neumayer’s journal are written onto a winter photograph of the scene. | Mt_Townsend_Panorama1.jpg
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II | Date: 19-Jul-12 | Resolution: 11535 x 4298 | ISO: 100 | Exp. Time: 1/400s | Aperture: 13.0 | Focal Length: 27.0mm
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