Long way home

Long way home

This series of photo’s were taken at Hill End in NSW Australia. An extremely wonderful place and well worth the visit! I hope you enjoy them and thank you for looking.

Taken with Canon Power shot pro 1 three different exposures, enhanced using Photomatix Pro before being tuned up in photshop,adding textures and brushing on some additional colour.

“Hill End has an intriguing history of boom, bust, abandonment and renewal, which has excited and prompted, visits from hopeful miners, speculators, artists and more, seeking fortunes in the striking landscape of the region”. – Gavin Wilson.

In 1872, at the height of the gold mining boom, Hill End boasted a population of approximately 7500. It had more than a mile of shop frontages, 13 hotels, 6 churches, 4 schools, 2 newspapers, a brewery and a brickworks.

Hill end was and still supports a popular artist community in years gone by including Russell Drysdale, Margaret Olley, Donald Friend Jeffery Smart and Brett Whiteley .The Hill End Artist in Residence Program began in 1994 and is now in its ninth season.

The township of Hill End was made an Historic Site by the NSW Government in 1967 and the entire town brought under the management of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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