{"id":312,"date":"2010-09-29T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2016-11-17T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T05:41:03","slug":"aaco-head-office-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/aaco-head-office-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"AACo head office (Brisbane)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see &#8216;Mitchell grass &amp; mackerel sky&#8217; is still on the wall in the AACo&#8217;s head office (Brisbane).\u00a0 Spotted a photograph of AACo MD\/CEO David Farley standing beside it, in October&#8217;s edition of The Australian Farm Journal (page 15).<\/p>\n<p>I took the photograph\u00a0&#8216;Mitchell grass &amp; mackerel sky&#8217;\u00a0early one morning when driving south from Heartbreak (Cape Crawford) along the Tableland Highway,\u00a0returning home from a trip to the Kimberleys.\u00a0 I had a drive into the east of about 1200km\u00a0for the day so was in a rush and\u00a0cursing the mackerel sky because it did exactly as I&#8217;d expected &#8211; got thicker throughout the day, until it was a dull grey blanket (ruining the light).\u00a0 However the light early in the day was spectacular, so the mackerel sky turned out to be a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2012 David Farley was photographed by the Courier Mail in front of one of several photographs of mine, adorning the AACo&#8217;s head office walls. This photographs shows the fantastic good-season vegetation surrounding &#8216;Corella Lake&#8217;, on Brunette Downs Station, and was taken in the 1990s when Geoff Wagstaff was manager.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5515\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5515\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2012-David-Farley-in-front-of-my-pic-2-650x403.png\" alt=\"AACo Managing Director David Farley, photographed by the Courier Mail in front of one of my photographs hanging in AACo's head office.\" width=\"650\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2012-David-Farley-in-front-of-my-pic-2-650x403.png 650w, https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2012-David-Farley-in-front-of-my-pic-2-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2012-David-Farley-in-front-of-my-pic-2.png 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AACo CEO, photographed by the Courier Mail in front of one of my photographs hanging in AACo&#8217;s head office.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiona Lake&#8217;s image &#8216;Mitchell grass &#038; mackerel sky&#8217; can be seen on the wall behind AACo MD\/CEO David Farley in the current issue of Australian Farm Journal magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[76,154,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}