https://mikebowers.com.au/home daily 1.0 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770088549945-FZ4OER3QAEUMT5FT7AKD/wedding-of-Prime-Minister-Anthony-Albanese-and-Jodie-Haydon.jpg Home - The wedding of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon At the lodge in Canberra. Saturday 29th November 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1759203507861-TTZ2Q3NG64E8TMTJA37E/Supermoon.jpg Home - 2024 Rural Press Photographer of the Year This photograph won me the Rural Press Photographer of the Year award for 2024 from the Rural Press Club of Australia. The Super moon rises over Canola Field beside the Old Gundagai Road near Cootamundra on the southwest slopes of NSW. Tuesday 17th September 2024. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770092344776-S924UUXW96JKEM6TTHTY/1Garma-2024.jpg Home - Garma Festival 2024 Yolngu red flag dancers from Numbulwar dance on the Gulkula ceremonial grounds at Garma 2024. It’s held each year in East Arnhem Land. Sunday 4th August 2024. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/7eb09bde-1f87-4404-84b4-88d1aa7a8813/Balranald.jpg Home - Dust storm approaches the highway near Balranald In the midst of a crippling drought in the Murray region of far south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town of Balranald is located where the Sturt Highway crosses the Murrumbidgee River in a remote, semi-desert area. Wednesday 12th December 2018. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770087767171-HN6FN5UBJRIXM6AXHSNC/Biloela1.jpg Home - Welcome home Emotional scenes as the Nadesalingam family arrive at Thangool aerodrome to a warm welcome from the locals. Priya and Nade with their daughter Tharnicaa are embraced by jubilant locals as they exit the terminal. Friday 10th June 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/bdd931bc-eba5-4162-a539-06b527745b8b/anzac.jpg Home - North Beach, Gallipoli Peninsular in Turkey Pic shows. With Ari Burnu, the point at which Australian Troops first landed at Gallipoli and traditionally the focus for Australian Dawn services, in the background, bugler David Shadforth from the Australian Army Band at Victoria Barracks in Sydney rehearses the Last Post at the New ANZAC Commemorative site, which will be dedicated at this year’s Dawn Service. Pic for General News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/ac9c9a04-9c34-4f9c-a57a-7eb3d10355cd/BillShorten.jpg Home - Bill Shorten Opposition leader Bill Shorten at a town hall meeting at the Albert Hall in Canberra this evening. Thursday 2nd March 2017. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/18f48202-dfd2-412b-af14-c187843f0712/GAM-Rebel.jpg Home - A young GAM "Free Aceh Movement", a separatist soldier with a tame bird that has adopted the soldiers since the Tsunami struck the coast on the 26th December 2004. Picture taken in their camp in the Hills near Banda Aceh. Friday 14th January 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770088563644-PE2PHXREBWVMJ9LP38Z0/Canola1.jpg Home - Canola Outside Harden-Murrumburrah on the South West Slopes of New South Wales, the canola crops come into full bloom. Monday 19th September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770092353659-V2WHB7YCFPM5E0GKRW4X/Bougainville.jpg Home - BRA Platoon Commander Rommy Joel Arawa, Bougainville: Pic shows: BRA Platoon Commander Rommy Joel rides shotgun in no-man’s land between BRA and PNGDF-controlled zones on the coast road between Kieta and Arawa in Central Bougainville. Pic for special on Bougainville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1759203507421-30YC4QD86BFBDZF5RQOJ/NPPP-2022.jpg Home - 2022 Finalist National Photographic Portrait Prize Stella Fernando is on the banks of the Gwydir River, where her grandson Gordon Copeland, a 22-year-old Gomeroi man, was last seen. Tuesday 27th July 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770088114946-PGHEV44RMJ0ODPKO479X/BillShorten2.jpg Home - Election 2016 Opposition leader Bill Shorten handles a baby croc during a visit to Maningrida, 500km east of Darwin, this morning. Friday 27th May 2016. Guardian Australia Election 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/de63c923-5cc6-4a91-94f3-f2bbdc83902e/DogTrial2.jpg Home - 2020 National Sheep Dog Trial Championships Held 11th-15th March at Hall Showgrounds in the ACT. Laurie Slater and Zeefree Marlon are in the top twenty final. Sunday 15th March 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770088563559-HVEEEGTYTO35CGBUOE8D/Chris-Hammer-photographed-by-Mike-Bowers.jpg Home - Author portrait for Journalist and crime writer Chris Hammer Chris re-released his non-fiction book The River in 2024. It documented his journeys along the Murray-Darling River and was the inspiration for much of his crime writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089634764-30B9I00VCOA4QRSEZVSD/Bowser-Bandit.jpg Home - The Opposition taunt the Prime Minister Tony Abbott With the headline from the Herald Sun newspaper, "Bowser Bandit" during question time. Wednesday 29th October 2014. The Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/db95afe1-e920-4970-ba45-ebb1f938030f/HayPlains.jpg Home - Storm on the Hay Plains Between Narrandera and Hay. Monday 28th February 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/7f5e578c-8b97-471d-b716-8628dd1ce36e/Brumbies.jpg Home - A herd of wild Brumbies On the plains above Kiandra in the Kosciuszko National Park. Monday 4th August 2014. For a special report on Brumbies by Gabrielle Chan for Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/87a175f1-1784-4d6a-b644-77a180358e1d/DogTrial3.jpg Home - The Working Dog Challenge At Carcoar, NSW. Megan Rutherford and "Mars" in the Sheep trials. Saturday 25th November 2023. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089151593-VEU7GR5RD6K3W74HGCQD/Kangaroos5.jpg Home - Kangaroos Compete for the small amount of water which remains in the outfall at Lake Cawndilla near Menindee, NSW. Thursday 17th January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089094699-DWPXGRR86LX9JR20CTYI/deniMuster1..jpg Home - 2022 Deni Ute Muster Deniliquin, NSW. The bullriders get ready out the back of the stockyards. Friday 30th September 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1759203505838-CYLRVIM49ZKSAE4A8BTD/NPPP-2014.jpg Home - 2014 Finalist National Photographic Portrait Prize I’ve been lucky enough to be a finalist in the National Portrait Prize (National Portrait Gallery Canberra), held annually 3 times over the last dozen years. For this photograph of Tony Abbott, which I shot for the portrait prize, I took a leaf out of my many cartoonist friends’ playbook. I wanted to strip back as many recognisable details as possible from the portrait and still have the subject immediately recognised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770088899703-B30CS47D5B5HIGITB1HW/Kosovo2.jpg Home - Kosovo Refugees A new influx of Kosovo Refugees crossed the border at Morina into Albania. Still defiant after many days on the road, they give the Victory sign as they head for the massive refugee camps at Kukes in Northern Albania. Pic for Age and SMH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089702535-43RVZ2ADJ2I110CB7G5G/Louth1.jpg Home - The Darling River at Louth NSW has ceased to flow due to drought Children with their dogs swim in the deeper pools around the bridge near the town. Tuesday 20th February 2018. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/9a60ed94-3ff8-4ea8-9aaf-0edacd1b5fe7/LightningPArliament2023.jpg Home - A thunderstorm passes over Parliament House Canberra Late Thursday, 30th September 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/99fe6151-1cd7-48d5-9f94-db2fa9b60b69/Menindee1.jpg Home - Dust storm over the Menindee cemetery Friday 18th January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/ce5cee50-afc4-467b-b7c8-2395ae106258/Menindee5.jpg Home - Dust storm at Menindee Friday 19th January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/7ce612a7-c451-4e33-857f-ab29a9cf4860/menindee6.jpg Home - Dust storm at Menindee Friday 18th January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/60977ccd-9e1b-4b90-823a-61f3b06587fd/Pelicans1.jpg Home - Pelicans on the Darling River Below weir 32 near Menindee, NSW. Thursday 10th January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1759203506095-LDG64DGTOANO7C48GACF/NPPP-2020.jpg Home - 2020 Finalist National Photographic Portrait Prize Prime Minister Scott Morrison sits alone during voting on the Medevac legislation in the last sitting week of 2018. At the time he only held the balance of power in the lower house by a very slim margin, and had to rely on the independents on the crossbench to maintain his grip on power. Behind in the polls and facing an election early in the new year, he seemed to have the weight of an entire nation riding on his shoulders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/95bfe4d7-c45e-44a3-86f3-08945a52c269/Paroo1.jpg Home - Sunset at the Paroo River On the West Wilcannia-Tilpa Road. Tuesday 18th May 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/b1d0f676-d638-47c0-b927-a147bca424b8/Nullarbor1.jpg Home - An electrical Storm passes over the vast Nullarbor Plains As a road sign warns drivers to avoid hitting Kangaroos, wombats and Camels beside the Eyre Highway near the Great Australian Bight between the Nullarbor Roadhouse and Eucla in South Australia. Photograph taken in 2018. Australian Bight, Nullarbor Plain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/428906f8-2ca3-43b3-b9f7-fae0787c2279/Paroo2.jpg Home - Sunset over the Paroo River On the West Wilcannia-Tilpa Road. Tuesday 18th May 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/0e0179c4-6ac9-4093-83b4-5e130f5ac484/Tony-Abbott.jpg Home - Prime Minister Tony Abbott After the repeal of the Carbon Tax legislation at a press conference. Thursday 17th July 2014. The Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089764112-TM4KLDRYBP0JGVLOEB5D/Menindee2.jpg Home - Sunset over Menindee Lake Wednesday 19th May 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770089811250-9DQHLE0AXLF65N29CN66/reef1.jpg Home - asmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson Senator Peter Which-Wilson’s office diving on bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island. Saturday 27th April 2024. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770090332433-QZVEFMX4EQGZEKAHX9OG/reef2.jpg Home - Checking on the extent of coral bleaching Marine Biologist and Emeritus Professor at James Cook University, Terry Hughes (left), with Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, inspecting the coral around the Heron Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. They were checking on the extent of coral bleaching on the reefs around the island. Saturday 27th April 2024. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/a2d8f489-abbb-4318-8632-f2dfe5b30b7a/Paroo3.jpg Home - Paroo River Flowing on the West Wilcannia-Tilpa Road. Tuesday 18th May 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770090381671-8H3HQ9SY3KG4Q6NOSXSX/Uluru-7.jpg Home - The night sky over Uluru After the first full day of the climbing ban. Saturday 26th October 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770091085328-DVQ3I8R75TIFPTDZC21X/sheep2.jpg Home - A snowstorm engulfs a flock of sheep In a snow-covered field on the Monaro High Plains beside the Adaminaby-Berridale back road this evening. Wednesday 9th June 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/b62fcd5c-f627-45c2-bb1b-8c0b0d69d6ba/Riverina-Highway.jpg Home - Rainbow over the Riverina Highway Outside Howlong, NSW. Saturday 1st October 2022. Guardian Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770090548421-OADHAEIMIBUEJTTC3VWE/Protest.jpg Home - Police remove an anti-genocide protestor after they disrupted the House of Representatives. 18th March 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770090426769-V2F32JSX16GFGE1JADH4/sheep1.jpg Home - Sheep in a snow-covered field A snowstorm engulfs a flock of sheep in a snow-covered field on the Monaro High Plains beside the Adaminaby-Berridale back road this evening. Wednesday 9th June 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/79aff425-2d70-44a5-8d3d-e11fa97980f6/reef3.jpg Home - On his way to see the coral bleaching on the reef Marine Biologist and Emeritus Professor at James Cook University, Terry Hughes (left), aboard a research inflatable from the Heron Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef, on his way to see the coral bleaching on the reefs near the island. Saturday 27th April 2024. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/45f2d802-c1dc-48a7-b0de-f0b24975d3be/uluru2..jpg Home - Uluru at sunset Monday 9th October 2023. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770091141135-MYT3DPXFP3ZQ7A9SZTGA/uluru9.jpg Home - Final day of climbing at Uluru After the wind delayed the start to 10 am, climbers are allowed to start the ascent on the final day of climbing at Uluru. Friday 25th October 2019. 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Australian election. Saturday 21st May 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770091683638-V3ZBQ4D3JQ6FQ5UM93DC/BanabyJoyce.jpg Home - Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce Arrives at Parliament House in Canberra. Tuesday 15th August 2017. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761912473-E338VCED1H0ANQ5X381F/BeijingOlympics.jpg Home - Beijing Olympic Games Day 9 The moon rises over the Olympic cauldron at The National Stadium in Beijing, known as The Bird's Nest. Photograph taken on Saturday evening, 16th August 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761914467-7VS3QVBSUY1BZ5T4XV1L/bushfire2020.jpg Home - Horsley Park RFS Crew The captain of Horsley Park, Darren Nation, watches his team extinguish a garage on a property near Potato Point on the NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770093231174-486H9KUGBNJ04ZU42QUW/deniMuster1..jpg Home - Deni Ute Muster Deniliquin NSW. The bullriders get ready out the back of the stockyards. Friday 30th September 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761916375-GVV4H7SYGTINM3XEZQJH/ElvisPArkes.jpg Home - The 2023 Parkes Elvis Festival Celebrating 30 years with the theme "Blue Hawaii", one of the headline acts of the festival, Elvis tribute artist Victor Trevino Junior, performs to a sell-out audience at the Leagues club. Friday 6th January 2023. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761918921-CM9ICTGWOMVYW13TPJQ1/FishScience.jpg Home - Bron Powell Project Manager for the Central Murray Darling Basin for Ozfish, a non-government organisation at the Macquarie Marshes. Monday 20th February 2023. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770091686228-2BC1HXIPJCRRZJU1589B/Floods2021.jpg Home - 2021 Floods NSW The Myall River has broken its banks and flooded Stroud Street in Bulahdelah, NSW. Sunday 21st March 2021. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770095047358-S3CECKGBDKALQE1S27U0/Gorky-Park-Moscow-1989.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770093357409-8ETDY49S0IJH68FY9L3X/Indigenous-members.jpg Home - Indigenous members of the 47th Parliament On the eve of the opening, they gather on the mosaic on the forecourt of Parliament House, Canberra. The full credit for the artwork is: Kumantye Jagamara (c.1946–2020), Luritja and Warlpiri peoples, fabricated by William McIntosh, Aldo Rossi and Franco Colussi, Forecourt mosaic pavement, 1986–1987, Art/Craft Program, Parliament House Art Collection. © The artist’s estate licenced by the Aboriginal Artists’ Agency Ltd. From left, Jacinta Price, Gordon Reid, Jana Stewart, Kerrynne Liddle, Malarndiri McCarthy, Linda Burney, Pat Dodson, Dorinda Cox, Jacqui Lambie. Monday 25th July 2022. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1770095037454-BNG5BHEXE24KVRJ5IWFO/Julia.jpg Home - Not Now Not Ever-Former prime ministers Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott At the unveiling of her official portrait in Parliament House, Canberra. Wednesday 24th October 2018. 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Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761938026-9Y45VC86NPQTGAYUEW4N/MurrayMouth.jpg Home - The mouth of the Murray River at dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761942107-OGYPSN6EFKDH0IOODYEO/Pauline-Hanson.jpg Home - One Nation leader Pauline Hanson Warms her toes after playing in the politicians’ state of origin rugby league contest between Queenslanders and New South Welshmen on the Senate Oval of Parliament House, Canberra. Wednesday 21st June 2017. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760761942998-7GMY6PT8YDIPB7N06ARC/Penny.jpg Home - Penny Wong Breaks down after the announcement of the same sex marriage survey this morning in Parliament House, Canberra. Wednesday 15th November 2017. 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Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754301986-9OC0TPZA4SQD8VGYHFG1/fire2.jpg Photo Essays Firefighters battle the North Black Range, Palerang fire North of Braidwood this afternoon. Friday 6th December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754302638-BRFKJ2KDZMIKKVYHY045/fire3.jpg Photo Essays A kangaroo races to get away from the fire front at the North Black Range, Palerang fire South of Braidwood this afternoon. Sunday 1st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754303860-0XQQUNBXDOPKZSBXMKXZ/fire4.jpg Photo Essays Fire consumes a stable on Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754304370-L6Z1EA4H1ZVMHG1AJQGM/fire5.jpg Photo Essays The intensity of the fire turned night to day as the Fire approaches Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754305545-62276LARNPW0XMM30GEY/fire6.jpg Photo Essays The intensity of the fire turned night to day as the fire front reaches Ti Trees and explodes in a fireball as the Fire approaches Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754306142-IDH91598P7WX89BN16S7/fire7.jpg Photo Essays The fire closes in on the property from all sides as spot fires ignite a 360 degree fire front as Fire approaches from the south at Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754307451-7CEPYUPZX6ADGWSASZ6E/fire8.jpg Photo Essays Flames burst out of the state forest crowning through the top of the trees and cross the princes highway at the Sussex inlet intersection south of Nowra this afternoon. Tuesday 31st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754308013-HTO8BLKF1XVX9IBWHKKZ/fire9.jpg Photo Essays The Bushfire turned night to day as Flames burn two tires that mark a driveway on the Sussex Inlet road a few kilomteres from the princes highway intersection south of Nowra this afternoon. Tuesday 31st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754309265-LXOZ6PG5CWEEDDP95MDM/fire10.jpg Photo Essays Burnt road sign at the Lake Conjola intersection on a closed Princes Highway with no traffic south of Nowra this morning. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754309922-54HTXN2ZUYKU2Z7Y1NGV/fire11.jpg Photo Essays Holidaymakers spent an uncomfortable night on the side of the Princes Highway at a roadblock at Milton. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754310888-TBSHRY5U5VZ78V83M4LR/fire12.jpg Photo Essays Bateman’s Bay bridge obscured by fire smoke this morning. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754311754-QN2X0L1NAGF7Z6EYGVS4/fire13.jpg Photo Essays The traffic was heavy and visibility low on the Bateman’s Bay Bridge this morning. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754312686-HWTWF1UNLQOHGPS33ROY/fire14.jpg Photo Essays A kangaroo in the ruins of a burnt home in Gannet Place Batemans Bay this morning. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754313473-9K7ACS8GKV97NXZ2TJUS/fire15.jpg Photo Essays Day turns to night along the Yauok Road North of the town of Adaminaby as the fire front approaches. Saturday 4th January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754314643-9H8N3RYICRXD0HJ66FRG/fire16.jpg Photo Essays Thick smoke blankets the Monaro high plains west of Cooma this morning . Sunday 5th January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754315215-AFNKM4VACM9NZCB78JBM/fire17.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. The captain of Horsley Park Darren Nation watches the fire front advance towards Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754316375-0TKHR7RZ0LX0VYPCAOW9/fire18.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew extinguish a fire in a garage which was well alight when they arrived on a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754316942-BCGYEQWEPG2FY6AA855B/fire19.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. Horsley Park fire fighter Daniel Knox defends a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754318381-R0JQC9NNG8BJWF27FMRO/fire20.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. Horsley Park fire fighter Daniel Knox defends a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754318904-4YIDYMFPMA9ZOAYPZ13V/fire21.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. Horsley Park fire fighter Daniel Knox defends a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754320138-TYO9TSVKDZ9BU8QVK3AU/fire22.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. Horsley Park RFS crew defend a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754320616-FWBTGJ1GU7NBDOJKRG3U/fire23.jpg Photo Essays Clear Range Fire. The sun sets on the Clear Range Fire west of Michelago, NSW. Friday 31st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754321690-LFUI7T5EDQRJEJVY43S1/fire24.jpg Photo Essays A spot fire takes hold west of Bredbo from the Clear Range Fire along the Bumbalong Road as the fire breaks out of the Namadgi National Park and threatens farms and homes north of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754322267-8Q6YO71UECKKRO8UTOC4/fire25.jpg Photo Essays Laurence Cowie fights fire on Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754323368-EHMUSI8ZU5F0IMFWI21R/fire26.jpg Photo Essays Laurence Cowie fights fire on Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754324079-0D05OY2V0JQ5YLGM8GWA/fire27.jpg Photo Essays A break in the smoke reveals a glimpse of the pyrocumulus cloud aulubove the fire as the fire explodes into a clump of ti-treew along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754325360-G2URTQVQB6074RYXDCC7/fire28.jpg Photo Essays Laurence Cowie watches as fire approaches Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754325791-73BPGY0B1RL9USA0V3DP/fire29.jpg Photo Essays Fire approaches Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754326903-OCBNQ204JQMMQJOPJ582/fire30.jpg Photo Essays A horse paces nervously around the home paddock as a spot fire takes hold west of Bredbo from the Clear Range Fire along the Bumbalong Road. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754327331-IPAJ2TEXR3253MVIWSW0/fire31.jpg Photo Essays Locals evacuate as what started as a spot fire takes hold west of Bredbo from the Clear Range Fire along the Bumbalong Road. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754328746-8B7OPTKPILBOGTPIUHMJ/fire32.jpg Photo Essays A break in the pyro-cumulus cloud as the Namadgi fire turns day to night and a spot fire takes hold west of Bredbo from the Clear Range Fire along the Bumbalong Road. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754329258-M144ZBQYWRXVJJHOZLHD/fire33.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. The captain of Horsley Park Darren Nation amd firefighter a Daniel Knox defend a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754330677-MIEIASLGG52K6KYA4OVW/fire34.jpg Photo Essays RFS crews conduct a backburn along Jones Road at the North Black Range, Palerang fire North of Braidwood this afternoon. Tuesday 10th December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754331003-H9VD16XXQI9YYZ7OV63Q/fire35.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. The captain of Horsley Park Darren Nation defends a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754333225-8RF7Y54S179QZ23DRACA/fire36.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. Back burning operation on a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754333501-Z43GTYP3U2QNOBOGZ5UC/fire37.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. RFS firefighter Daniel Knox defends a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754335364-XJB68G4UX5EWBYAAODGL/fire38.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Fire fighter Daniel Knox extinguishes a fire in a garage which was well alight when they arrived on a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754335568-1C1R858UF06OKJM0IA92/fire39.jpg Photo Essays Horsley Park RFS Crew. The Horsley Park RFS crew extinguish a fire in a garage on a property near Potato Point on NSW South Coast. Thursday 23rd January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754336845-ARB5OWVRLPMT8HZJTF5G/fire40.jpg Photo Essays 4.30pm day turns to night along the Yauok Road North of the town of Adaminaby as the fire front approaches. Saturday 4th January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754337483-IJB9XM2EN0GSM8FIF7ON/fire41.jpg Photo Essays Cars wind their way along the coast road past forests still bearing the black scars of the summer fires now fringed with a beard of new green growth on the South Coast of NSW near Malua Bay. Tuesday 15th September 2020. Guardian Australia. Story by Kieran Pender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754338738-7F8A79E00GQWHHOBRV9L/fire42.jpg Photo Essays Bateman’s Bay bridge obscured by fire smoke this morning. Wednesday 1st January 2020. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754339101-SQM3H071QXKROWFWUOT6/fire43.jpg Photo Essays Flames impacting properties along the Sussex inlet road, south of Nowra this evening. Tuesday 31st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754340709-GS2HXUTXJ42U2MI92M9T/fire44.jpg Photo Essays Night from Day-Peter Nicol watches the approaching fire from the front of his property along the Sussex inlet road south of Nowra this afternoon. Tuesday 31st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754341917-HPQAIPDBNP1OWP2BEW3U/fire45.jpg Photo Essays Helena with her son Gabriel on the verandah of their burnt house in station street Balmoral, the Green Wattle Creek fire swept through their village on Saturday afternoon. Monday 23rd December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754342642-KJIEL6VAV3L2HD5V11W0/fire46.jpg Photo Essays Welcome rains start to fall as RFS crews fight a fire at the Green Wattle Creek fire near Bargo NSW tonight as it starts to rain. 21st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754343607-PKULFGP617A2Y9YCZ55G/fire47.jpg Photo Essays RFS crews fight a fire at the Green Wattle Creek fire near Bargo NSW tonight as it starts to rain. 21st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754344325-F4733NJFHITWGPXGT91G/fire48.jpg Photo Essays RFS crews put out spot fires ahead of the main fire front at the North Black Range, Palerang fire South of Braidwood this morning. Sunday 1st December 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754345311-0UNTRBIG3QRRGKOFTIHW/fire49.jpg Photo Essays The North Black Ridge, Palerang fire shot from the Captains Fkat-Braidwood road 24kms South of Braidwood. Late Friday 29th November 2019. Guardian Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760754346007-VB4CTBS1FHU2B0015OCE/fire50.jpg Photo Essays Fire burns down the stables on Tallabrook lodge a property along the Bumbalong Road North of Bredbo. Saturday 1st February 2020. Guardian Australia. https://mikebowers.com.au/photo-exhibitions daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760764639675-VK79MCWIA8LHJGCLGZ08/imgi_10_collection-picture-photo-young-girl-apple-fairfax-nla-obj-163350126.jpg Exhibitions Fairfax Corporation, Young girl holding a large apple beside her head, New South Wales, ca. 1930s, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-163350126 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760764639927-S9ENWV3DV6JUTC415UI5/imgi_11_collection-picture-photo-students-sydney-university-fairfax-nla-obj-163384894.jpg Exhibitions Fairfax Corporation, Two female students studying in the grounds at Sydney University, Sydney, June 1934, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-163384894 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c242681f092a6e7d5d7cd6/1760764642002-8CP1NL6Y7HNKZ32O5PHV/imgi_12_collection-picture-photo-men-working-propeller-ship-farifax-nla-obj-161678472.jpg Exhibitions Fairfax Corporation, Men working on the propeller of the H.M.A.S. 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