(c) Andrew Calder 

20 August 2008: Another shot taken from along the Hobart bike track (i.e. Hobart Tasmania, the land downunder The Land Downunder). I trend towards silhouette style pictures. Often against a uniform background of a big sky. I didn’t realise this fully until it was pointed out to me one day. I like the shot!

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(c) Andrew Calder

When I first met Andrew he mentioned an earlier, many years ago now, visit he’d made to Tasmania; specifically to go bush and walk the southern wilderness areas of the state. At the time, he was reliant on ‘hitching’ rides with the locals. In describing some of the qualities of the folks he’d met he drew a comparison to the stereotypes of the southern states of America, as portrayed in popular culture. That is, small farming communities, the willing and generous hospitality of the people living in the district for generations and the importance they attach to family. His story was of a good old-time Tasmanian welcome to travellers.

Fast-forward to 3 August 2008: Exploring Geeveston (named after the Geeves family who settled in the area in 1858 and now also known as ‘The Gateway to the Southern Forests’). We were walking back toward the town’s centre and passed by this ‘Auto Centre’ with its cracked and fading signage and the old ‘jalopy’ parked out front. Andrew was instantly transported. We were in downtown contemporary Geeveston but really, we easily could have been in that other place at the other time. I also think he was a little comforted.

Philipa.

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30 July 2008 2.36 PM: Andrew and I wandered in to a new-ish Hobart restaurant - Indian Raasoie (Collins Street) - to enquire about the possibility of a late sit down lunch. We’d spied this place a week or so earlier during an early evening walk as we were heading back from Salamanca. The owners welcomed us with huge grins and we were ushered upstairs to the large dining room. The room was beautifully lit with mid-winter sun flooding in through the windows. I was famished and couldn’t concentrate on small talk as I keenly awaited my ‘Lamb Shai Korma’. Andrew is amazing; he simply takes out the camera and will happily amuse himself for ages moving objects, sometimes just a few millimetres, to compose the shot. I swear it’s a form of meditation. I was mesmerised, that is until my korma and his biryani arrived. The food was delicious!

Philipa.

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3oth July 2008. We had lunch at an Indian restaurant, and the water came in a red bottle. I took this picture of Philipa through the bottle.

(c) Andrew Calder

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7th August 2008. I found this on a pylon of a bridge that the Glenorchy bicycle track goes under. It was not far past Moonah, going towards Hobart. It is the best graffiti I’ve seen in Tasmania. In the suburbs of Sydney (esp. Bondi), or the big storm water drains of Melbourne, there is some amazing graffiti - graffiti artists travel interstate to inspect each other’s work (I’ve met them while photographing). This tiger is about a metre high.

(c) Andrew Calder

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“7th August 2008. Taken on Glenorchy Bicycle track, near Moonah.”

(c) Andrew Calder

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“7th August 2008. This is the bike path that runs from Chigwell into Hobart or vice versa, somewhere between Moonah and Hobart.”

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“7th August 2008. I think this is the Anglican Church (why would they have a clock?) on St Johns Avenue in Moonah.

(c) Andrew Calder

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“4th August 2008. A road in the hills behind Moonah - the shadow of this gate was clearly defined on the asphalt footpath by the morning sun. It was still cold.”

(c) Andrew Calder

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” 3rd August 2008. This whole area used to be famous for it’s apples - there were apple orchards everywhere. This building is on a wharf in Port Huon -it is where they used to store apples ready to be loaded onto ships for export direct to England http://www.huonvalley.net.au/nameorigins.htm). It is now owned and used by a Salmon farming business. Many of the small apple
orchards that are left are being pulled up, put into piles and burned. They are being replaced by Cherry trees whose fruit will be exported to Japan.”

(c) Andrew Calder

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