You’ve taken your children back to the farm where you grew up, where your farming life began. You imagine their excitement when they see the chook yard, the stables, and the towering salmon gums.Only when you arrive, you see it through their eyes. The house has long been abandoned, the shearing shed is in disrepair, […]
The Australian Farm Albums Journal features aerial photography, sheep enterprises, crops, client documents, and those extraordinary moments that happen on Australian Farms.
At one stage it was said that Australia rode on the sheep’s back. Over the years there have been ups and downs with wool prices, from the “pound for a pound” prices of the golden years of wool in the 1950s, to the wool stockpile crisis and the abolition of the Reserve Price Scheme in […]
The first edition of the Australian Farm Albums Journal. This is a magazine that will share stories from Australian Farms and bring the latest news of what is happening at Australian Farm Albums. In the first edition you can see examples of aerial drone photography, and how amazing aerial photos of your farm will look. […]
In 2009 I started taking photos for my friend Jane, of her family’s farm. As she didn’t live far away I visited the farm several times and photographed all around the farm, as well as photographing the family at home. This was to become the first ever Australian Farm Album! Jane’s husband David had grown […]
The sheep industry is very busy in the springtime, with studs holding sales all around the country. Caroline Telfer photographed the Anderson Rams merino ram sale near Kojonup last year, and the day has come around again for this year’s sale. With wool prices currently doing well, average prices at merino ram sales this year […]
A visit last week to the farm where I grew up in rural Western Australia brought back early farming memories. “Menota” was bought by my paternal grandfather at about the time of the second world war. My father bought the farm from his father, and expanded with more land in the 1970s by buying a neighbouring farm. I […]
I had a great time with the this farming family when I visited their farm at Karridale, near Augusta. They have the good fortune to lease a farm only ten kilometres out of Augusta, on the south coast, so they can live close to the beach while enjoying a farming lifestyle. (My kids would love […]