An easy bark to recognise in the bush in Victoria is the ironbarks, they have rough bark that becomes hard, compacted and furrowed with age, however, the bark is actually soft and flaky so the iron characteristic may refer more to appearance and expectation rather than to fact. The indigenous people of the Djada Wurrung (Jaara Jaara people) have lived in the grey box and red ironbark forests of the area for thousands of years but the the gold diggers of the 1850s turned the country upside down in search of gold. You can find many traces of their activities around Bendigo in the form of mine shafts, mullock heaps, dams and water races. This human activity, together with timber cutting and clearing for agriculture, has resulted in only 17% of northern Victoria’s original box / ironbark forests remain today.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 50mm f1.4D @ ISO 400, 50mm f1.4, 1/60 sec
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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f5.6, 1/25 sec
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Nikon D300, Nikkor 50mm f1.4D @ ISO 400, 50mm f1.4, 1/400 sec
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Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ ISO 400, 11mm f5.6, 1/8 sec
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Nice pictures Wayne, love the shallow focus and bokeh of Nikkor 50mm f1.4. Tokina looks a bit soft to me for some reason.
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