Gum Lobby

Yeah, Nuts To You Too, Buddy

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON

There is no sound like the autumn wind whispering through the gum leaves (and no, my middle name's not Russell!). Then you look up and you realise that it's the perfect time for a photo opportunity. The blue sky (no, the colours have not been enhanced) is the ideal counterfoil for the gumnuts and the graceful shower of leaves. This shot was taken at Glenrowan, in country Victoria. The town is best known as being the site of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly’s last stand against police in 1880. Glenrowan gets its name from pioneer pastoralists James and George Rowan, who owned sixteen thousand acres of grazing land in the area in the middle of the 19th century.