red gravel road

Ninghan Station, Western Australia

It seems like it was longer ago, but only a couple of weeks I was camping with about 80 year 9 students in the middle of nowhere, about 400km north-north-east of Perth.
This very red dirt and red gravel is characteristic of large parts of Western Australia, and the red dust has a habit of getting into anything and everything!

This photo was taken shortly after we turned off the bitumen road and onto the gravel road. A warning buzzer was sounding in one of the buses, and we were wondering if we were going to be stuck here - quite a few kilometres away from where we were supposed to be camping. A quick investigation revealed the cause of the buzzer - the release on the emergency exit back door of the bus had shaken itself loose on the gravel road corrugations.

I recently attended a photography workshop in Melbourne. During the workshop, we had the lovely couple Alex and Mel modeling for us during a photoshoot.
I'm sure that Alex and Mel now have an understanding what it is like to be pursued by paparazzi, as they had 16 photographers shooting them from various angles!