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Born to be wild

Where have you gone on your family’s farm to get phone reception?

I’m in the middle of a paddock. It’s stormy and I’ll go behind a tree if it gets too windy. It’s a 2000-hectare sheep farm on the Murrumbidgee River [near Cooma, in southern NSW]. It’s beautiful, quite hilly country and half of our land is pretty much untouched wilderness. My father’s family goes back six generations here, having first settled in about 1880. And 1840 on my mum’s side, just up the road. I live in my grandfather’s old house.

Do you do most of your wildlife photography on the farm?

Almost all of it’s here and within 100km of home. I have the snow an hour

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