Updated May 2008
Goblin Swamp
I made my first images in Goblin Swamp in 1998. However, as this is such a tiny and fragile ecosytem I have not made these images very public. Recently Goblin Swamp has become a "tourist ikon", so keeping these images hidden no longer helps protect the site
Some of images include glimpses of bodies, as I have occasionally used Goblin Swamp as a setting for pictures of friends - in the images on this page showing people the figures in Goblin Swamp are tiny - most do not include glimpses of people - however, because of the nature of the location viewers often see figures where none exist - for images featuring people please go to Naked Portraits 1994+
Prints of Goblin Swamp are available for sale as archivally processed selenium toned silver gelatine prints in rag-board mats
The day was sunny, too sunny for such a contrasty subject. This image is to be re-printed on my big DeVere to subdue the highlights
The monstrous root forms, part of the visual appeal of Goblin Swamp, were originally under a layer of peat - this
peat has been lost to Western Australian Dept of Environmental Consternation badly supervised fuel reduction burns -
I have long advocated a change in policy to protect DEZs like peat swamps, granite monadnocks and riparian
systems during burns. However, DEC seem to go out of their way to destroy these tiny, fragile forest jewels in their
broadscale burns: see Karara in Peat Loss page
John Austin