The Long Paddock

I was up in Central West Queensland - Springsure, Emerald area in December and had a great time with the horse and cattle folks up there. First, a photography workshop at Goodliffe - a cattle station belonging to James & Liz Speed in the shadow of Santa Rosa Carnarvon National Park and the amazing rock formations there.

They have had camping visitors before, although are not fully set up for it, but the workshop was a hoot with heli-mustering and branding, making for great photography. I would say if you ask nicely they would extend their hospitality to good-natured folks.

The Long Paddock Gallery

We also did a Portraiture Clinic there with Liz and her daughter Mel, which was also a lot of fun:

The Cowgirls shoot

Finally, we were off to Emerald for a workshop with the Emerald Camera Club, which was also a lot of fun - one of the shoots was of this old queensland lady.

I understand there's been a fair bit of rain up there lately, but it was dry as an afghan camel-trader's fart pretty much all the way there and back, except the two times when it did choose to rain when it poured - near Toowoomba and then near Wanering on the way home.

The Central West has some beautiful country, and I highly recommend it.

This year, the Vivid Adventures crew will find themselves in the Kimberleys for most of May - that promises to be a wonderful and extravagant trip, a houseboat trip on the River Murray in August, and the Simpson Desert Cycle Challenge in September.

I hope we'll see you out there - if you see the mean green machine, don't forget to stop us and say hello - you wouldn't be the first.

Cheers, good shootin and wonderful light to all,
Andrew.