Nature is the Godly we can see and touch.
The Tasmanian Land Conservancy, TLC, protects nature by buying land for nature conservation. People make donations for new land acquisitions and to maintain property already held by the TLC. You can leave a bequest in your will.
Dr Helene Thomas is a red-hot, top-of-her-game audio producer and my loving partner. : ) We work on projects independently and collaboratively. We were honored to spend two days of field-time and a few days of edit-time together for the TLC’s newly acquired Brockley property at Buckland.
We walked many kilometres each 12 hour work day carrying lots of equipment through the bush. I’m not a chick magnet, I’m a tick magnet. I had two ticks on my body. One was attached to my scrotum. I bet you’re glad you just read that. A leach, big, bloody and pulsating was attached to my ankle. It released itself and spewed blood all over the floor when it was confronted by our salt shaker. We were lucky to have each other to do full body inspections at the end of each day. The morning starts were early, with freezing conditions, sun and fog, they created beautiful atmospherics. The rotor blades of the drone were coated in ice during flights on the first morning. The property flooded the day before our shoot. The frogs were pleased. Each species had their own call and they were loud, the sounds combined and enveloped your mind in a beautiful way. The frogs were everywhere but I never spotted a single one apart from tadpoles, the makings of frogs but not quite frogs. For me, a place gives a feeling for a seemingly inexplicable reason. I wonder if it’s a resonance, earthly energy, spirit/s perhaps? This place made both of us feel really good, at peace. Wildlife and the rhythm of life was all around us. Don’t even get me started about my sweethearts, my adored Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos, three on a tree, two up to mischief and one lookout.
The opening footage of the film, that tree, that most magnificent tree in the fog overwhelmed my body with goosebumps. The trunk and branches seemed luminescent. It was gentle, graceful and life giving, a symbol of life itself.
Surprisingly the camera exposure settings remained constant throughout the sequence right through from the ground to the bright sun above the fog. It was like going from night to day in the one movement.
I truly believe that nature is the Godly we can see and touch.
You can see our film here if you’d like to.