Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Olympic Dam Whenan Mine Shaft
The first mine shaft at the Olympic Dam Uranium/Copper mine in South Australia.
The Whenan Shaft was completed in 1982, and is used to bring crushed ore up to the surface, where it is transported several kilometres overland via conveyor belt to the processing plant.
There has since been at least [...]

Olympic Dam Construction Camp - Feb 1994
Construction camp at Olympic Dam villiage - still being used to house workers since there was a chronic shortage of accomodation (which I believe hasn’t improved since I was there in 1994!!).
The yellow car is mine, and the first window / air conditioner behind it was my room … [...]

Our family photo gallery (mostly used to hold the photos that we display on our blogs) has grown enormously since I set it up for Mum and Dad to use early last year. We now have over 1,100 photos (800 of which are from my father) - which have been viewed over 770,000 times!
These photos are [...]

My room at Olympic Dam Village - Feb 1994
The workers quarters at Olympic Dam Village (the township built to service the Olympic Dam mine before Roxby Downs was built) … was the only place they could accommodate us when I went there for my second stay. Very rudimentary conditions with a shared shower/toilet block and [...]

Simon in Roxby Downs
The main street of Roxby Downs as it was in February 1993. I’m sure it’s a bit different now with all the development in the town in recent years!
This was the first of three times I lived in Roxby Downs, each time I lived there for a period of 3 months while [...]

Andamooka - February 1993
During my first of three periods living in Roxby Downs while working for Western Mining at Olympic Dam - Leanne came to visit - we drove out to Andamooka for the day.

A man and his car
My first car - a 1973 2-door Toyota Corolla … older than me by a couple of months.
The photo was taken in mid-1992, I would have been 18 or 19.

My Studio - 1990
My “studio” in my bedroom - Roland U20 and Casio CZ-5000 synthesizers, Alesis HR16 drum machine, CD player and tape deck, plus mini-mixer and microphone.

Where’s Simmy ?
Leanne and I visited Puzzle Park near Murray Bridge back in 1992 … I don’t think its still open now ?

BP Murray Bridge - 1990
While in school I worked for a few years as a service station attendant at the BP in Murray Bridge. It was on the main busy intersection in the middle of town, so we got quite busy - especially on Friday and Saturday nights (my main shifts), and even more so [...]