Around Piangil
Piangil is a small town 40-kilometres north of Swan Hill. It is a wheat-processing town and is surrounded by Mallee shrub and crop farming country.
I was looking forward to the opportunity to take some photos of Mallee shrub (a drawf-like tree that grows in the semi-arid landscape of North-West Victoria and other parts of Outback Australia).
Despite the landscape being generally parched (due to its semi-arid nature), there was a tinge of green even here as a result of high-rainfall (I love the grey-green and orange look to the landscape). Just a stones throw from the shrub is an aquifer (formerly used to supply irrigation water to the farmlands) with an orchard behind it. Whilst there, I also experimented with some close-up photography of a wheat field.
Following that, we stood on ‘hills’ (covered in tarp) storing the wheat harvest and I had the opportunity to take some aerial photographs. I experimented particularly with the shape and composition of the photograph and particularly with scale.
Piangil is literally at the end of the railway line and a place where crops are loaded onto trains to be taken to Melbourne. Hence, the inclusion of the railway line in this gallery.
In addition, I also took some shots of a nine-year-old boy being ‘the king of the mountain’ and some photos of the ‘hill’ from ground level. Following this, on the trip back to Nyah, I took some photos of cricket willows (the wood is used to make cricket bats). I was so taken aback by the fact that a plantation of tall exotic trees are growing in a semi-arid Australian landscape and also, by the line work that occurs in this landscape.
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