Ever
since Mad Max, a burned-out landscape under a blue sky, with a
two-way blacktop highway running through it has been a symbol of
Australia. Up the country, roads can be so quiet you can stretch out
on the white line to get really low shots without any danger. In 2021
I photographed a number of locations way north of Adelaide, but due
to a hard drive crash I lost my 2021 pictures—there were many
lamentations, as you would imagine. On April 3rd, 2023,
that particular expedition was recreated—going back to the same
spots and recapturing lost frames. For good measure, here are two
from that day. It’s a highway juncture about 300kms north of
Adelaide, up beyond Burra and Tarlee, where the land is wide and flat
and, by April, burned as dry as it’ll ever be. Here some bright
spark named the road “Worlds End Highway," which feels like it
belongs in a Mad Max movie to start with. Those ridges in the
background? The “Hallelujah Hills,” and that fits the picture
too, along with the ruins of settler homesteads and the abandoned
towns up there. It’s an interesting place to visit, for sure! No photographic cleverness here, it was all about the place. Minor
adjustments to colour, contrast and sharpness in Irfanview; Fuji
FinePix S5600. Image by Mike.
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