How wonderful it was to get away from it all and spend 4 days on a friends property near Bundarra, NSW over the Easter break. With very little phone reception and no real agenda other than to relax and take some photos just for fun, it was just thing I needed to recharge the batteries. The weather was perfect and I was even gifted a nice and early, foggy morning on Sunday which I took advantage of to get some great Australian country flavoured images.

The other great photo spot I encountered was an authentic old shearing shed on a neighbouring property. Full of charm, cobwebs and the unfortunate stench of countless sheep gone past, it was a perfect way to reinvigorate my love of photography exploration.

This is a selection of the images captured over my Easter break on the farm. The colour images were shot with a Nikon D3 with either a Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 or a Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR while the black and white images were shot with an Infrared converted Nikon D300 with a Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8.

All the editing was done using Nik Software’s Snapseed for iPad/iPhone and desktop computers. Snapseed is an amazingly powerful piece of editing software and is also very inexpensive. For around $6 for the iPad / iPhone and around $20 for a desktop machine it’s one of the cheapest photo editing programs around. If you haven’t tried it out, make sure you do so soon!

Cam.