After many years of customer requests I was all teed up to finally produce a 2012 Australian outback calendar. I even had the format planned and most of the photos picked out.
Just before I got stuck right into calendar production, I was approached by Landmark because they wanted the 2012 Landmark calendar to feature large Australian cattle stations. So I have avoided producing my own outback calendar for another year! However the photos included in the 2012 Landmark calendar were all taken by me, the paper and printing are really good quality and it will end up hanging on many more thousands of walls than I could be in a position to manage, because Landmark have branches all over Australia.
The 14 Landmark calendar photos range from the East and West Kimberley regions of Western Australia, through the Northern Territory, into Queensland’s Channel Country and Cape York Peninsula. The photos are arranged in the order of a typical day’s mustering on a large Australian cattle station – from before dawn until sunset, and the calendar is titled ‘Mustering across the north – a day in the life’.
Ten of Australia’s most interesting, large cattle stations which I have visited over the last 25 years are included in the 2012 Landmark calendar: Brunette Downs, Tanbar, Wave Hill, Lilyvale, Mabel Downs, Lucy Creek, Glengyle, Napier Downs, Nockatunga and Alexandria. These cattle stations are owned by well known beef industry families and a variety of publicly and privately owned pastoral companies.
All 14 calendar photos are accompanied by brief but informative captions, with the sort of information that you wish was included with all photos, so you at least knew where the photos were taken and something about the subject. If as they say, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, then it is true that ‘a picture with a great caption is worth a million words’. Good images + good captions, create something so much better than just ‘good’.
The 2012 Landmark calendar will be available to Landmark customers, sometime next month.
It was really enjoyable working with Landmark to put it together, and I look forward to producing a 2013 Australian outback calendar.
Tags: Fiona Lake Photography, Australian cattle stations, Brunette Downs station