Lake Bumbunga, South Australia
I just love taking a dirt track off the highway, with no signposts, lets see where it goes ( I lie, I know where it goes, it goes to the east side of Lake Bumbunga, as luck would have it, I'm here again exactly one year later, check my post form this time last year ) We are, I'm sure, in the grain capital of Australia print big, love it. Just made a wee little mistake while taking this shot, but turns out the mistake gives me this amazing colour in the sky partner in crime :-) and there she is, Lake Bumbunga, but this time of the beaten track, we had to drive through a farmer's field, then this amazing lush section of low shrubs interspersed with all these colourful succulents, and then this great view You know what I'll say now, 2 things 1 print big 2 wanna do a production here :-) like a mirror, but there is actually quite a breeze blowing, wonder the lack of ripples has anything to do with the fact that it is salt and therefore heavier ? loving this location, and loving even more my "mistake " sorry to bore you with all these photos, but Jacqui & I just walked around here for ages taking hundreds of photos, I mean look at this photo, and no, no photoshopping or tricky computer effects, just camera , lens, filter and location
Just to prove no tricky photoshopping, here we have our lovely Jacqui, and as you can see, it's still Jacqui no shift in colour. And the colour of the salt is exactly like that, amazing rose colour, but the sky, yes, the sky's colour has changed some what through this "mistake " :-) and that's rock hard salt, also, Jacqui walked on it barefoot, and it is maybe a little too hard for tender feet just fascinating
we are both mesmerised and in awe with its beauty our foot steps in the salt
we head back to the car to go and check out the west side
on the west side we have Lochie, and check out how much drier it was this time last year, compare the photos
the colour !!
like an alien landscape
Lake Bumbunga has mood. It is always changing especially when there is water. I like it in the morning, the late afternoon, midnight, when there are storms with large clouds but a few days ago it was so windy there white caps. It has a white man and an aboriginal history about it. There are also some graves on one of the islands. My great great grandmother moved to Lochiel 133 years ago. I live 6kms away. I love the lake, and also photograph it at times. Check me out if you come thru. Jonny Pickles
Posted by: Jonny Pickles | July 21, 2013 at 15:59