 Sometimes I think I'm a bit crazy to go out in the rain or climb a fence or cross a swollen creek or Yeah, go for a drive for What worked out to be almost a thousand miles to take a photograph of one sign My name is Gideon and my user name is Nangara in Australia There's that old fable about the outback and there was a sign for one of the shires I knew I'd seen it before and all it says is outback starts here So I drove from Perth up to the sign took the photo and drove back home again Yeah, it all began with the kangaroo poor I click on the Wikipedia article and it says this is the floral emblem of Western Australia or something and that's it I Knew more about the flower than what was there and I saw the little button at the top that said edit this page So I started editing Wikipedia for photographer is a fantastic book because you can pick and choose what you release you can Change subjects so you can go read an article about something can go. Oh, I know what that is That's only down the road. I'm gonna go and take a drive and Take some photos and it challenges you to change your styles when you're looking at architecture to plants to You know full full on scenery, you know, I like shooting the flowers in Western Australia Of course, there's just so many of them The the variety is just it's going to take years just to shoot every one And that's part of the challenge is getting in and finding some of these flowers when they're in season a lot of them are endangered a lot of them are in restricted areas where you aren't supposed to go and a lot of them, you know a General location, but you don't know physical location. So you've got to work that out yourself one plant It's a bank share And to get photos of that it's in a very small area It's more or less a swampy ground type thing in the botanical gardens where I originally took a couple of photos of the flower They've got one specimen growing there So I got some of those and then as the article was going to feature I went to actually photograph the species in its location, which is the best way to present a plant anyway So I went to this place and it's circled by a six foot high Cyclone fence with three strands of barbed wire across the top of it. It's a up and over I go and take me photos no problem at all About six months later fire goes through the area and absolutely destroys everything flattens it But that's good for the plant because the benches release their seeds after a fires gone through and Then the seeds germinate in the ash and grow up from there So here this article is going through FA and it's like okay. I'm gonna go back and get some seedling photos in the same area had to go back over the fence again grounds a lot wet and soggy and Yeah, makes it interesting to start with take the photo of the plant get some leaf Photos show some nice stuff of the seedlings climb back over the fence go across the drain of course protecting me camera You know doesn't matter about anything else. I step up onto the side foot slides So I go back down into the swamp into the drain Climb back out Boot missing. Oh well So yep pair of boots