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19.01.2022 . Here I am in China in the salt mines of the Chengdu basin, Sichuan Province. I traveled to Zigong China, where they've been drawing brine from the ground and turning into salt for almost 2000 years. Zigong Salt Industry History Museum is the only one of its kind in the whole of China. It was established in 1959 in the centre of Zigong City, Salt City, China - Ancient Salt Mining in Sichuan. There is an old guild building museum full of amazing history and a drill site stil...l operating since 1835, 1K deep that draws up brine that is extracted in these amazing pots that i am standing in. It’s like it always was. Such a buzz to be shooting in a time warp. The other pic I am shooting a salt and herb beauty product shop in the middle of Zigong shop centre. I was shooting for Temasek, the financial investment arm of the Singapore government. Salt is, and always has been, a very valuable commodity. Hard to tell but salt is not all the same and this stuff is rated as some of the best on the planet. At the time the wasn’t a lot of ‘whiteys’ in town, so I attracted quite an audience. In fact i never spotted another. Just up the road is also a mind blowing Dinosaur dig, loaded with heaps of them. Its as if they all decided to die in one spot. So many skulls and bones. Sichuan food is the absolute best!! The tea isn’t bad either. #Salt #Zigong #Chengdu #Sichuan #Temasek

16.01.2022 There are demons in the water and angels on the wind here at the bottom of the world. It’s a fine line from the edge of the world between land and sea and if you’re not careful you can fall off and plunge into the infinity of space and time. We were mysterious travellers in a tribal caravan camping in the wind that has blown across a land that has seen eons of stars pass over frozen desert nights. A scorching sun baked land rendered down into humility and respect. So into thi...s realm we were blessed to create a small moment of civilisation and build a recycled home and venture into perfect surf. We were naive about what was there but blessed to share a rare time in the history of surfing. As Chris Stroh put it ’73 Rolling Home was one of Paul Witzig’s last surf movies and it was an attempt to break away from the standard surf movie formula. It was a film doco of a trip across the Nullarbor via Cactus to West Oz with Hawaiian surfer Reno Abellira in tow. It was more than that tho, it was a journey into the tribes of this great southern land and in that sense it was better than a surf movie, but perhaps the target audience was too hard to find unless you were there on the journey. Then you understood. The journey is always better than the telling. The aboriginal tribes, the rodeo tribes, the spiritual tribes, the desert tribes, the north coast hippy tribes and more. A particular time on a timeless land. You can stop anywhere out here. Drive on top of a coastal desert dune and listen to Dark Side of the Moon, walk up onto a stony time washed mountain and hear nothing but a wind whispering in your ear ear telling all it knows or heard. Some insect or fly buzz past from wherever on its way to wherever more. So I did stills, sound, water camera, built and drove. We were a family of wanderers. Judy Bray, Jo Abellira, David Watson, Reno Abellira, David Lourie, Mindy Plater, Michael Simmons, Robbi Newman, Paul & Mariane Witzig, Dogs and Kangaroos. #RollingHome #Tribes #Suring #Cactus #History #Culture #Australia #Desert #Caravan #Culture #1973 #Greatsouthernland #Space #Timeless

13.01.2022 A flashback to a long hot summer and the burning of Barrenjoey. Barrenjoey is a Tombola, its also a sacred place, connected to a peninsula by a sand spit that has formed over an old reef. Early pics show that the sand was bare all the way from the ocean side to the Pittwater side and there are tales of how on rare occasions swell actually washed across. It’s possible but certainly not anymore as vegetation has totally covered the spit and this has allowed sand to actually be... captured and this has increased the dune height. The fire on a Saturday 28th of September 2013 was an epic event. A sort of bonfire of spiritual icons. It was a superb westerly wind blessed day with azure water and small swell kissing golden sands. It started on the smugglers track and quickly torched a millennium of native bushland. The iconic lighthouse was spared with the assistance of water bombing helos. in the late sixties the majestic sandstone ramparts and caves, the old customs house and more lured the psychedelic visionaries. The ‘joey surf as always, challenged the spirit of surfers. The place demands respect and awe. It lets you be there on its terms. I wandered across its barren landscape after the torching. Fire reveals what lies beneath. I found old bottles, an old bath set up above the cliffs, no doubt by a lighthouse keeper. Sadly on the east cliff, the charred remains of the fleeing wildlife, faced with the choice of burning or leaping from the cliff face. It remains in its majestic form. A rampart like watchtower against the ages of a relentless ocean. A church of time carved with the wind and salt. Majesty beyond our passing years. Blessed by passing sea mist and flood waters. Sometimes it even talks if you listen. #Barrenjoey #Northernbeaches #Icon #Spirit #Timeless #Icon #Fire #Blessed #Power

13.01.2022 Always been on the frontline to help fight for the life on this planet, not so much the humans but the other stuff, everything else that has taken so long to evolve and yet so quick to destroy. So one of my favourite organisations has always been the Humane Society (HSI)..because we are so wretched in our attitude to ‘dumb’ animals. An irony as we are the actual dumb onesno need to expand. The so called ‘research’ harvesting of whales in the southern oceans became cause cele...b. for the cessation of this farcical activity for HSI and also later on, Sea Shepherd. I had worked with Verna, the director for HSI, on many occasions. She was a no compromise, passionate lady who I also worked with on Nature&Health magazine. We had worked with some of these fabulous girls before on another campaign against the harvesting of seal pups, and they were totally into joining against the slaughter of whales for dog meat or whatever lame purpose they were killed for. Cant recall their names but I shot this in a side alley in town 14 April 2008. What ended up was the Japanese abandoned the ‘research’ as it became obvious that there was no real research going on and the truth of it all became more powerful than the shame or loss of face. Kudos to Sea Shepherd who made it so public, but hats off to HSI who actually won a court order against them to cease activity. I think its still is an active warrant against the members of Kyoda. In the judgement Accordingly, Kyodo is found to be in contempt of court and consequently, is to pay fines which together total $1,000,000. On 16 August 2018 the Australian Geographic listed this case third in a list of the Top 5 landmark environmental legal cases in Australia. Not bad for a small team based in Avalon, and thanks to a bunch of models and a photographer who all helped a tiny bityou just have to do whatever you can while here for what we are blessed to share time an amazing planet with If you see any of these girls say tnx from the whales #Whales #HSI #2008 #Southernoceans #NewIdea #Action #Conservation #Law #Judgement #Celebs #Passion

04.01.2022 Here are 2 illustrations i made for Tracks magazine in the early days at Whale Beach. I was the environment and ecology writer and wrote articles about the ocean environment and the creatures in it. I was, and still area bit out there. This was the era of the beginning of awareness of how we had lost touch with the earth. We were poisoning the planet and bulldozing or plundering every ecosystem. It was truly an enlightening erabut it all faded into greed and more war and mo...re plunder in the late 70’s and 80’s. We lost it. IMAGE 1 :For a story of dolphins and cetaceans, Minds in the Water. We were not the only conscious beings on the planet. An arc of the evolution. In the waves of time. The black and white of darkness and light, then the formation of matter and planet, then the water, then the fire and life formed in oceans and land. Humans evolved and discovered the planet, Then came the collapse and destruction of us and our cities,. Then just the spirits in and on the oceans and seas were left. The energy of those left behind at one with minds and spirit born from and returned to the spirt of life that was embodied from waters in the beginning. IMAGE 2: For a story of albatross. Wanderers on the wind across seas. A dedication to travel over oceans for love alone and dedication to serve another partner in carrying on the magic of existence . How an understanding of energy flows can carry you at the simplest of efforts to travel far and wide embraced by an invisible force. How to go with the flow in the simplest and most elemental manner. So what do they think of as they wander and soar day and night through time. To return to the source? In that way we are the same at least. All these were drawn with a rapidograph pen. yes I am apocalyptic. I believed, and still do, that much has happened on this planet that we are not aware of. Also that what is here will not be here much longer and it is, as it always should have been, that we must look after all the life here with us and carry it to the next epoch. #Tracks #Ecology #Time #Creation #Evolution #Epoch #Destiny #Spirit #Illustration #Waves #70’s #Vision