GONE BUSH

BY LATE AFTERNOON, once the heat of the day has ebbed, Dolly, Daisy, Trader and Hardy Paine play barefoot in the red dust with their chooks and Banjo the Shetland pony. Their mother Clancy is nearby, capturing their movements with her camera at Wongaroo, the family’s 517-hectare mixed farm south of Narromine in central NSW.

“As soon as the sun is low it lights up the landscape and it’s just beautiful,” 34-year-old Clancy says. “The children have taught me to search for the beauty in any