poking around the back-blocks

The chronic fatigue I have had for 11 years limits me in many ways. It is frustrating that I cannot get out to the places I would like to do a bit of photography.

We are not far from Sydney, for example, about 1 hour 45 minutes but that is beyond me for a day trip. Even Newcastle, about an hours or so, is a bit far at the moment.

So this makes me change my mind about what I photograph (the photography must go on!). I like making photographs so much. I noticed, for example, when last loading pics from my camera to the computer, that I had taken 5,000 shots on my present digital camera in about 18 months. That is a lot! But it has been a lot of fun. I like the process so much.

I have always liked the scrappy bits of our towns. On a recent expedition to a corner of Toukley (we are on the Central Coast of NSW), I had fun poking around a short length of the main street, down near where the bridge goes over the water to Gorokan. I found a lot of interest in the old bits of buildings in odd lanes and back-blocks.

It’s a subject I could get used to – “scraps of the town”. I am certainly going to do it again. And soon!

Here’s one of my shots from last time: