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Outback photography sheds machinery: Few photographers will argue that photographing old farm machinery and shearing sheds is boring. And the older they are the better they are as subject matter.

Landscape photographers sometimes use them for contextual reference for a larger shot while macro photographers love getting up and personal with this beautiful objects. There is something magical about machinery that was built 50 or 100 years ago that is still standing; regardless of whether it still works. These pieces were 'crafted' in a time when things were built to last. It is a reminder of times before the disposable age.

Rams

Steel Wheels

Bagger

Makers Mark

Timber Steel

Gear Lines

Chaff Cutter

Bowser

Inside Shed

Winch

Wool Press (b

Koerst

Shearers Row

Gears

Power Lines

Boiler Rust

Kinchega Woolshed (b)

Kinchega Woolshed (a)

Mungo Woolshed (a)

Mungo Woolshed (b)

Zanci Stables

Post and Rail

Stable View

Green Timber

Fixing

Brown Bottle

Zanci Woolshed

Trilby Bins

Holden

Tail Gate

These amazing remnants can be found throughout Outback Australia. Steel shafts, pistons, gears, timber boards, old wheels all lend textures, shadows and form for the photographer to work with. A couple of places of note in outback NSW are the Kinchega Woolshed and Trilby Station. Trilby especially has a wonderful display of old farm machinery and provides a wonderful insight to our pastoral history as they have been farming the area for 5 generation and have an amazing written history. (Trilby was the fist place in Australia to use mechanical shears)