The Desert Postman's Track

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The Desert Postman's Track
The Desert Postman's Track

I am tempted to paint this view of the desert, à la John Olsen's Lake Eyre paintings and entitle it "People who live at Turkey Creek" as an abstract painting, or maybe "The Desert Postman's Track" as a artwork in the Realism genre for the postman's track can be seen skirting the ironstone red dunes and crossing the lake.
Any way, this is Our Outback Australia: Lake Ulenia & Yantara Lake on Turkey Creek, NSW. The complex and varied landscape of the desert is revealed in this aerial image.

[To see John Olsen's Lake Eyre Paintings, here is one example: www.olsengallery.com/enlarge2.php?work_id=3488&&a...]

This image tells some of the major stories of the Australian deserts, with the red ironstone and old red dunes oriented by dominant wind direction, the clay pans of the internal drainage basins, the periodic floods that course down the flood channels after flood rains far to the north, the salt crusts around the edges of the pan, and the lonely tracks that cross the varied terrain.

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Taken on: December 9, 2004
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Camera: Canon EOS 20D, f/13.0, 1/250 sec, 47mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Lens: 18.0-55.0 mm
Aperture: f/13.0
Exposure Time: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length: 47mm
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Not Defined
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop 24.1 (Windows)
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