2023: It has been a long-held bucket list item to see and photograph the ‘lights’ and it finally happened on 24 April 2023. Here is the Aurora Australis, photographed from the Neck, the isthmus that connects north and south Bruny Island (about an hour south of Hobart in Tasmania). None of the colours in the photos have been pushed in post-processing, but resulted from a longer exposure.
2023: Disconformity at Fossil Bluff, northern Tasmania.
2005: Shear zone in road cutting on the Furka Pass, Switzerland. Sarah for scale.
2004: The famous Norwegian hike to the Besseggen ridge, a big day. The metamorphics here are a product of the Caledonian Orogeny (Cambrian-Silurian).
2012: The Lake District in north-west England, more than justifiably called an area of outstanding natural beauty, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. A complex of mainly Cambrian to Silurian sediments and volcanics glaciated in the Pleistocene.
2022: Heading back to Yulara after shooting the sunset at Kata Tjuta (with about 100 helicopters buzzing overhead), a bunch of cars were parked on the exit road intersection. Turns out they were watching the moon spectacularly rising up thru the gap of Walpa Gorge. Apologies for the over-exposure, had no time get the tripod out.
Are you a geologist ? Is that how you travel so many places ? If so how did you do it all? And what work do you do in your travels ? And what field are you in to be able to travel so much ? I want to be a geologist it is my dream job and I've never talked to anyone that is one !Im just so excited about it all I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about it. Thank you for your time !:)
Did geology at uni, but went over to IT, a profession which took me to all those fabulous places. Still love rocks.
I love your rocks! May I use a photo on my IntuitiveScribe blog?
Sure .. just credit it !
2022: The Little Bunkers Range in the eastern Flinders Ranges showing a nice geomorphology of Cryogenian sediments (720-635 Ma), particularly with the Trezonian cuestas.
2022: A section of the north-western fault boundary of the Bunkers Graben, found in the eastern Flinders Ranges (hanging wall on the right). Sediments shown are from the top of the Cryogenian, through the Ediacaran to the mid-Cambrian. These pics had to be done quickly as wedgetails eagles do NOT like drones. Also thrown for nix are a bunch of local emus.
Not a question: hi from Catalonia!
I love your photos and comments, Pirineus, Scotland, Iceland, Arizona, Patagonia...
Thankyou very much
2022: Always an interesting perspective seeing something on Google Earth and then actually seeing it in the field. The Ooraminna plunging anticline, near Alice Springs, with fossiliferous Cambrian sediments.
2022: Cuestas of Carmichael Sandstone lining Larapinta Drive, part of the infamous Mereenie Loop. The Carmichael Sandstone (near the top of the Ordovician) is disconformably overlain by the Mereenie Sandstone (Silurian-Devonian), seen further in the distance. Do not bring your BMW here.
2022: The West MacDonnell Ranges, as photographed with new Mavic 2 Pro drone from Honeymoon Gap. Strike ridges of Heavitree Quartzite (~800Ma) delineate the east-west orientation of the range. They are overlain by the madly-folded formations of the Bitter Springs Group. The ranges were uplifted as part of the Alice Springs Orogeny (500Ma to 300Ma), which was unusual in that it occurred mid-continent as opposed to on a plate boundary.
2022: A Brown Falcon (Falco berigora) staking out a quartzite pile on Ooraminna Station in the Northern Territory, near Alice Springs, with a bit of grass caught in his (her?) plumage. Able to be easily distinguish from the similarly-sized Black Kites by the characteristic tear-stripe below the eye. Canon 400mm f5.6 lens again handy here.
2005: 36 conglomerate domes make up Kata Tjuta (formerly known as The Olgas), which are 40km west of Uluru. These conglomerates are thought to be terrestrial fan deposits from the Ediacaran (550Ma). The ‘Valley Of The Winds' circuit here is one of Australia’s best walks.
2022: Pillow lavas and tuff bedding at Red Head, likely Tertiary
2022: Quite the laid-back Diamond Python .. that tongue is really blue.