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Murray Darling Basin
My photographic journey started about twenty years ago when I fueled my wanderlust with a motorcycle and photographic journey across Europe, fulfilling a childhood dream to ride across Europe and recapture my passion for photography.
I bought a Triumph motorcycle in Athens, Greece, and a state-of-art digital camera (a whole 2.5mp) and began my journey that lasted 18 months and covered nine countries.
While the camera and motorcycle are long gone (sadly for the latter), it was the catalyst for a creative pursuit that is as strong as the day I departed Athens with my life in the panniers of that remarkable Triumph Adventurer.
Since then, I have pursued most genres of photography. An early mentor taught me that while fashion, wedding, product, lifestyle, travel, portrait, and news photography are all very different, what you learn in each will make you a better photographer. For the last twenty years, I have followed that advice.
Not only that, I have documented my passion for rivers and the outback of New South Wales (AU) through touring projects like the Darling River Run and the Corner Country Touring, the point where the states of New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia meet.
I have recently created Sturts Touring Route, the Watershed Looptm.. a place close to my heart, the Barmah-Millewa Forest and the Timber Cutters Runtm.
Murray-Darling Touring
Covering almost 15% of the total area of Australia, the Murray Darling Basin offers the ultimate country and outback experiences, iconic towns/localities and touring routes. The iconic and well-known Darling River Run is one of many outback touring routes of the region.
Being within two hours drive of 75% of Australia's urban centres that make up our eastern capitals (Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Adelaide), as well as our inland cities like Toowoomba, Bendigo, Albury Wodonga, Tamworth, Dubbo, Orange, Wagga Wagga, it provides domestic tourism with a vast array of destinations, experiences, and activities.
The Murray–Darling Basin, the catchment for Australia's most extensive river system with its two main rivers being the Murray River and the Darling River, includes over 77,000 kilometres of rivers and waterways encompassing the states of Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and South Australia.
The basin covers an area of 1,062,025 km2 (almost 15% of the total area of Australia).
The MDB is a diverse area associated with wool, cotton, wheat, sheep, cattle, dairy, rice, oil-seed, viticulture, as well as horticultural; it accounts for 40% of Australia's farms.
As Australia's most important agricultural region, the Murray Darling Basin produces 30% of Australia's food supply and supports over 30% of Australia's total gross value of agricultural production.
While the Murray Darling Basin is responsible for providing much of the water required for the irrigated sector of agriculture across the region, it is also home to some of the most significant, and culturally relevant, heritage sites in Australia.
Within the Murray-Darling basin, there is an extensive network of waterways that feed the two prime rivers of the region, the Murray and Darling Rivers.
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