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Located in the Petermann Hills to the east of Kings Canyon, and west of Tempe Downs, a dried up watercourse drops over some cliffs where this lone Ghost Gum has managed to take root.

Past water flows have stained the rock. In the lower part of the image there are the remains of roots from another tree which has died and fallen away from the cliff.

I have had a passing interest in photography for many years - mainly as a record of places I'd been to whilst bushwalking. In "my former life" as a University Professor teaching structural engineering in Australia and before that in Canada I started collecting 35mm slides of a technical nature (buildings, bridges, concrete, steel, timber etc.) that I could use in my teaching. In this role I was instrumental in the early 1990s to start collecting technical images of all aspects of structures and to start putting these images into a more pictorial "multimedia" orientated teaching environment. Much later, after retiring from Academia, I moved from 35mm slides to digital cameras. A great deal later (about 2010) I invested in a Nikon D80...