Readers may have seen in yesterdays Sunday Herald-Sun (which I do not usually read!) a spread of images by Ken Duncan, spruiking is soon-to-be-released book. One panoramic image was referred to me by a client as being the one I photographed outside the old mining town of Burra in 2012, and which she bought, but it is not one-and-the-same. Duncan had photographed another ruin – Reggies – which is not as close to Burra as the most famously iconic old pastoralists ruins to put South Australia on the map. Easily missed driving along at 100km/h, Cobb Cottage, 4km from Burra, shot to stardom as the sweeping, evocative cover image for Midnight Oils August 1987 album, Diesel and Dust. For my visit, the image I came away with was touch-and-go, with lingering heavy cloud that broke just long enough to cast a golden glow on the beautiful brickwork. None of the pretty blue/pink-streaked sky in Duncans idealist view. On the right of the ruin are the decaying ruins of the stables/cellar. The ruin, dating back to the mid-1800s, stands incongruously in the middle of a very substantial crop of wheat — with biosecurity restrictions, meaning no entry onto the land or near the ruin itself. The famously photogenic Cobb Cottage sees a large number of photographers taking the short detour off the road from Hallett to view the play of light over the hills yonder and watch and reflect as another day of sun sets on an everlasting piece of Australian history. • Cobb Cottage, Goyder Highway, Burra, South Australia Pentax 67, 165mm f4 LS, UVL41, Velvia 50, spot metered. Printed for private client in Echuca to Kodak Endura Metallic and dibonded.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:27:08 +0000
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