I’ve been on the road again! You know how I just can’t wait to get on the road again! Try and get that song out of your head now!
This time I left Dunsborough, picked up my mate Stuart at Perth Airport and drove East all day to the Goldfields – just another 1000kms under the belt !! Forgetting all the boring hours of driving I got to wake up in Lake Ballard to a ballistic sunrise, it was worth every km.
It was a really crazy sky with unusual cloud, which is what I love especially when the light is getting better and better. I ventured out onto the lake and it was wet & muddy, a bit like my brain these days, but I battled on despite the slippery conditions. I felt like I was auditioning for “Disney on ice", I was all over the place. As a side note, I wasn’t on ice and I wasn’t at Disneyland! Attached to my sexy SL3 I had my new favourite Leica Super-Vario-Elmarit-SL 1:2.8/14-24mm ASPH lens. Now you may ask “why have Leica named a lens after a computer game character”, beats me! Anyway I got some great shots focus stacking the images to maximise quality. If you’re going to do it, may as well do it the best you can!
Lake Ballard is a vast salt lake is not far from Menzies and is a dramatic place to photograph. It is also home to over 50 Anthony Gormley statues which are quite ghostly and add to the slight eeriness and solitude of the place. You can spot a few in these photographs. I am definitely going back when the lake is completely full of water, and this time, I will be taking some wellies!
