Storms and Desolation

This is the 3rd image in a series of works I was photographing in rural south-east Queensland referencing early Australian colonial painters such as John Glover (1767-1849) and others of his ilk. Storms appear to be gathering on the horizon but with the life giving rains, one can also sense the desolation of living in the harsh outback where the poem ‘I Love a Sunburnt Country’ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) springs to mind –

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”