2013
A collection of personal and professional work from the last year.
(Click on the first image for slideshow view and full captions).
Former playgroup buddies, not quite grown up, enjoy a day at the museum.
Baby Lara sleeps during her first ‘photoshoot’.
Hannans Handicap Fashions on the Field winner Andrea Hopson.
I’m a big brother now.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Jimmy Barnes fans at the Red Dirt Rock Concert.
Livinia and Pilgrim | Condingup, WA
A happy cameraman atop the grandstand at the KBRC.
The Anti-Pixi Foto – playing around with studio lights and funny kids.
Timewasters | I remember sitting like this with my kids when they were babies, just watching them sleep. ‘Timewasters’ they called them, because you sat there just looking, whiling away the hours. I don’t regret a minute of it…
Steve Hesketh | The Drones
Bullfighter David Martin waits for the chute to open | DC Solutions Rodeofest Kalgoorlie
A full house for Jimmy Barnes’ performance at the Red Dirt Rock Concert | KBRC
On the eastern edge of town.
Ginger Bill the stray.
Paid-up, first-time bullrider waits for the chute to open before he gets nailed | DC Solutions Rodeofest Kalgoorlie.
Gareth Liddiard | The Drones
A railway cutting on the way to Wallaroo Rocks.
Winter Solstice
Gareth Liddiard, Fiona Kitschin | The Drones
Happy racegoers at the Kalgoorlie Cup.
DC Solutions Rodeofest Kalgoorlie.
Sugar Blue Burlesque at the Welcome to the Round Cocktail Party.
Gareth Liddiard | The Drones
Sisters | Up on Kyle’s Hill, Kalgoorlie.
Red Dirt Rock Concert | KBRC
Jimmy Barnes in full-flight.
Carys at the rock dam.
Lyoveldio with Aaron Mitchell on board hits the line to win the Mm Electrical/Data Supplier-68 – 1600m
Winner *double fist pump*
The first day of being five | double exposure
DC Solutions Rodeofest Kalgoorlie.
Rocking the beard, Kalgoorlie Cup.
Fiona Kitschin | The Drones
The tiny feet of newborn baby Aria.
Shaun O’Donnell on Classique Ivory returns to scale after winning the 2013 Kalgoorlie Cup.
The Drones’ frontman Gareth Liddiard, with his Einstürzende Neubauten tattoo and Fender Jaguar.
C: “Mum, if you had a pet Guinea Pig what would you call it?” M: “Hmmm. Carys!”. (obviously happy with my choice of name for my hypothetical pet rodent)
Jimmy Barnes sings to a full house at the Red Dirt Rock Concert.
‘H’
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Melbourne Jockey Chris Symons salutes the crowd after winning the 2013 Hannans Handicap on Mr Vadim.
The view over the KBRC mounting yard before the running of the 2013 Hannans Handicap.
Gareth Liddiard | The Drones
A tower crane looms over Beaufort St, Mt Lawley.
Dan Luscombe | The Drones
Evie Mae
Racegoer Daniel Kelly the moment after he found out he’d won a trip for himself and some friends to an island off the coast of Queensland. A crowd of thousands, and the winner is RIGHT THERE in front of the podium. You couldn’t have planned it any better.
Some of the headwear on show from Fashions on the Field – Hannans Handicap | Discover The Round
A freight train heads west to Perth, past Wallaroo Siding, deep in the sandplain and granite country of WA.
Dan Luscombe, Mike Noga and Gareth Liddiard | The Drones
First day of school.
The Jogger
Up on Kyle’s Hill, Kalgoorlie.
Sisters | Up on Kyle’s Hill, Kalgoorlie.
The Marron Dam (sans marron) | Condingup, WA
Up on Kyle’s Hill, Kalgoorlie.
Rainbows and Unicorns
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Gareth Liddiard | The Drones
Red dirt and spurs | DC Solutions Rodeofest Kalgoorlie
Little Wharton beach on a cloudy day – remote south coast of Western Australia.
Dan Luscombe | The Drones
Newborn baby Aria and her mum, Amy, in the late-afternoon sun on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie.
Baby Aria’s dad John comforts her at the end of a photoshoot on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie.
Sugar Blue Burlesque at the Welcome to the Round Cocktail Party.
Prost, trained by Peter Fernie, in the mounting yard before the Hannans Handicap.
Saturdays in the backyard.
Tight field approaching the finish line of the Mm Electrical/Data Supplier-68 – 1600m.
‘Julia Gillard’ the feisty, red-feathered chicken.
Newborn baby Aria, not quite big enough for her beanie.
Off and running in 2013’s Kalgoorlie Cup | Discover The Round
Mr Vadim and his strapper after the running of the 2013 Hannans Handicap.
Home, sick (ish).
A summer storm sweeps past Condingup on its way out to sea, off Orleans Bay, on the remote south coast of WA.
Mahalia Barnes sings to a packed-out KBRC | Discover The Round
Classique Ivory, ridden by Shaun O’Donnell and trained by Gino Poletti, crosses the finish line to win the $150,000 XXXX-Gold Kalgoorlie Cup (2300m).
Life & Death | A tiny honeyeater found after an untimely demise skewered to a Date Palm spike.
Well-known Kalgoorlie jockey Misty Bazeley relaxes in the change rooms before the running of the 2013 Hannans Handicap, the traditional ‘Ladies’ Day’ on the KBRC race fixture.
First day of school.
Red Dirt Rock Concert | KBRC
The Hannans Handicap is all about fashion. And beer.
The obligatory staring-into-the-mirror-and-checking-out-the-gap, moments after you lose your first tooth.
An industrial grate from Edinburgh superimposed with the far-reaching landscape of the Western Australian wheatbelt – part of a ‘film swap’ with Mandy Kerr in Scotland.
The Supermoon made an appearance in June.
Gareth Liddiard before the start of The Drones’ ‘I See Seaweed’ launch in Perth, March 2013.
The first day of being five | double exposure
All images © Melissa Drummond 2013.
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