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This is an ongoing gallery of shots taken within a few minutes of my home, including the farmlands, forests, tourist destinations and the city of Albury. My usual camera is a Nikon F6 with Ektar 100. I also use a small N75 with Portra 800.
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All my children attended a little two-room school opposite the Ettamogah Pub, pictured above. Certainly an interesting place to enjoy a beer after work.
Just down the road, although not signposted, is a lookout of the area offering expansive views of this lovely part of Australia.
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The imposing Albury railway station sees little passenger traffic, just a few trains a day running to Melbourne or Sydney. The Station Master's house is now the regional tourist information centre.
Freight has increased but the Albury yards are abandoned. A container loading facility near my home handles all local rail freight these days.
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The Murray River crossing from Albury to Wodonga used to be a quarantine checkpoint to stop fruit fly infestation spreading to Victoria. Today a public artwork Portus overlooks the highway between the two towns. It looks suspiciously like three pieces of fruit to me, a ghost of a past use of this land.
The quarantine area now features a jazz club, art gallery and drama theatre. A large open space is used for markets and visiting circuses. These images were shot on a Nikon F6 with Ektar 100 film.
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The Murray River, Australia's longest at 2,500km, flows past Albury. Several pleasant walks alongside the river or through adjacent wetlands offer a relaxing atmosphere for jogging, cycling and photography!
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I live outside Albury, in the midst of a large rural area where canola fields mark the beginning of spring.
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Albury is a large country town in southern NSW. The original Telegraph Office in the main street has been converted into a music school where I work. Just a few doors away is my local camera store who do such wonderful film scanning for me.
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In 2015 the museum mounted an exhibition of ANZAC material and a replica of the first plane to fly in Albury. These images were taken on Porta 800 with a Sigma 24-105mm.
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