Karen is a talented Hartley based photographer who says this about herself. My love of photography developed about 19 years ago when my first child was born. Once moving from Katoomba to Hartley, I just couldn’t get enough of what nature had to offer in my own backyard and I developed a love of Macro. It… Read More »
With permission today I went for a fly around the State Mine museum in Lithgow. These are the fun outtakes flying the DJI Phantom 2, but it does need a bit of work to remove jello which has crept in now due to a couple of prop strikes in recent weeks (One is in the… Read More »
Brendan Wacher made this documentary as a short solo project in 2014. Not only is the factory itself an amazing piece of history, but its influence on the town of Lithgow was also very interesting. Multiple streets around the factory were named after weapons, and there had been some quite heavy anti-aircraft guns around Lithgow… Read More »
Queensland climber Muriel Patten becomes the first women to climb the First Sister, Katoomba, 1934. Bert Salmon is above her as both solo the climb. With a female climbing culture firmly established in Queensland by the early 1930s, January 1934 saw 16 Queenslanders—including 7 women—travelling to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains on a ‘rock-climbing holiday’.… Read More »