Fiona Lake Photographer

Thank you for visiting my website. My name is Fiona Lake and for more than 25 years I have specialised in photographing and writing about Australia's largest cattle stations - the largest cattle stations in the world.   Nearly 500 of the best of these outback photos are included in the beautiful coffee-table style books 'Life as an Australian Horseman' and 'A Million Acre Masterpiece'.  Unique Australian Christmas cards and outback greeting cards are also available, as well as limited edition photographic art.   This year, for the first time, my outback photos can also be seen on unique calendars - produced by Landmark for the 2012 calendar year.

Over more than two decades I have visited Australian outback cattle stations (ranches) spread across the top half of Australia, a vast area measuring more than 3,000 km north to south and more than 3,500 km from east to west. Regions photographed include: Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula, Gulf Country and Channel Country; the Northern Territory's Barkly Tableland, northern Alice Springs Region, Victoria River District and Marine Plains; and Western Australia’s East and West Kimberley Regions. I only visit cattle stations still using stockhorses - which is most cattle stations in northern Australia and south western Queensland. Quite a few of the largest cattle stations measure 10,000 square kilometres or more. Properties this size usually run between 20,000 and 60,000 head of cattle each, depending on the carrying capacity of the land and seasonal conditions, and mobs of 1,000 head or more are common. Cattle stations are only visited during the busy dry season when mustering is in full swing, and the specific properties visited depend on local seasonal conditions.

Like all businesses, cattle stations are not open to the general public.  The only way to really experience what it's like to live on a cattle station is to work on one.  Because Australia is the most urbanised country in the world there is a shortage of specific, reliable, first-hand information about living, working and visiting outback Australia and facts on what it is like to live and work on a big cattle station.  So I have incorporated a lot of outback cattle station information into the website and blog, which together now run to more than 400 pages in total.  Please use the sitemap and view the blog categories if you are having trouble finding specific information. Unfortunately I do not have the administrative resources to respond to enquiries of a general nature - and most queries are answered somewhere on the website anyway. However I do make every effort to find some time to help all who have generously supported the ongoing recording of life in Australia's remote regions, by purchasing. So if you are an existing customer and have some general queries, please email them to me along with a mention of what you bought and when, and I'll do my best to make the time to reply. 

Office closure times in 2011-12:

This is a one-person business, which means you receive personal service.  However it also means that when I am away the office is closed.  I am not away very often and it's usually only 3-4 days up to 1-2 weeks at a time, however if you are ordering for a special event or have an urgent deadline please check office closure dates & details on this Blog page, email or call me if you have any concerns.  Orders are always sent out in the order received as soon as I return to the office, and all parcels are sent by Express Post (Australian delivery) and airmail (overseas delivery); with the exception of orders for 5 or more books to Australian addresses, which are usually sent in a box by ordinary mail, to minimise the risk of damage in transit.  More details can be located on the pages under the 'Book' heading.

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