The purpose of this section of the website is to share some of our experiences, assignments and field trips with you.
Each story is provided as a downloadable PDF. We welcome suggestions for future stories.
We are presently working on a photographic narrative about the 2007 National Tally Room. In November 2007 we followed and photographed the building, running and dismantling of the 2007 National Tally Room. Due for completion in November 2008, we plan to present the narrative as a book and a small photographic exhibition.
Use the links below to access the stories.
Sharing Their Dreams Booklet
Sharing Their Dreams road trip album
The Northern Corroboree Frog in the Brindabella Ranges
2006 National Sheep Dog Trial Championships
The Country Education Foundation of Australia is a rural based not for profit organisation that fosters educational and career opportunities for school leavers in rural Australia. The Foundation has 17 regional foundations operating in four states and since its inception has assisted over 700 school leavers start a career or further their studies. Sharing Their Dreams is a full colour booklet and Audio CD that tells the Foundation’s story and profiles 5 very enthusiastic young Australians who have been assisted by the Foundation.
Download the Sharing Their Dreams Booklet (40 pages 6.0MB PDF)
The task of writing and recording Sharing Their Dreams saw us driving 2125 km, visiting the New South Wales towns of Cowra, Boorowa, Murrumbateman, Yass, Harden, Murrumburrah, Cooma and Bombala. I set out to collect three sets of photographs. The first set was of the people involved in Sharing Their Dreams and the second was a set that could be used as design elements to illustrate the booklet. I also took the opportunity to slow down and observe my surroundings and collect a third set of photographs that personally interested me. The following road trip album shows a small selection of those images. A selection of images from this album was published in Desktop Magazine, Issue 225, March 2007, pp 51 - 55.
Download the Sharing Their Dreams road trip album (2.9MB PDF)
The Northern Corroboree Frog is listed as Endangered and is found in only two populations, one in the Fiery Ranges in Koscuiszko National Park and the other in the Brindabella Ranges in Namadgi National Park. In 2003 Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve successfully established a captive rearing program for the Northern Corroboree Frog. It is thought that there are now more Northern Corroboree Frogs in captivity than in the wild. Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve will soon begin attempts to breed the frogs in captivity. If these attempts are not successful the future does not look good for the Northern Corroboree Frog.
Download the Corroboree Frog story (1.2MB PDF)
Update - May 2008. The Northern Corroboree Frogs held at Tidbinbilla have produced viable eggs which have produced tadpoles. We will be updating our 2006 story and the background behind the captive breeding program in the very near future.
Sheep dogs play an important role in rural Australia. The dogs and their owners form a unique bond, working together to muster the sheep in their care. The first sheep dog trials in Australia were held sometime in the latter half of the 19th century. The National Sheep Dog Trial Championships which started in Canberra in 1942, are now the longest running sheep dog trials in Australia. I visited the ‘Nationals’ for two days to get a first hand glimpse of what sheep dog trialing is all about.
Download the National Sheep Dog Trial story (1.3MB PDF)
