{"id":592,"date":"2019-09-12T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/?p=592"},"modified":"2019-09-12T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:19:27","slug":"travels-with-my-q-outback-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/2019\/09\/travels-with-my-q-outback-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels with my Q – Outback road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Road trip to Townsville in June\/July 2019. From Victoria through Broken Hill in outback New South Wales through Bourke, Longreach and Cloncurry to Mount Isa in outback Queensland, then across to Townsville. Back to Victoria partly down the coast then midland on and around the Newell Highway. 9,500 kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are a few images highlighting the fantastic quality and range of the Leica Q as a travel camera. All images with standard (basically the default) processing in DxO PhotoLab 2 including some with extra sharpening using Nik 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver City Highway to Broken Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Showers on the far horizon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silverton back road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fencing with cloud cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silverton Mad Max country<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gum tree exposed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wind farming where nothing else grows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Colours of approaching sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The sad consequence of roads in the outback…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Consequences never ending<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old mining truck White Cliffs opal town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Homestead deceased<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Struggling to survive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Road in the middle of nowhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The reality of farming in the outback. Dingoes not welcome here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some hills, more scrub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Welcoming bottle trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Termite mounds in abundance…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… not respecting boundaries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Offloading at the saleyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Loading the road train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Long driveway in the frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little church on the hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old pub, old bowser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Long vision<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Queenslander at Struck Oil waiting for the rain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sorghum in the distance. Rocky and Bullwinkle maybe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bottle tree sentinel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Classic Queenslander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Approaching sunset on the road to Goondiwindi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saltbush plain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ageing gracefully together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silo art perfection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Road trip to Townsville in June\/July 2019. From Victoria through Broken Hill in outback New South Wales through Bourke, Longreach and Cloncurry to Mount Isa in outback Queensland, then across to Townsville. Back to Victoria partly down the coast then midland on and around the Newell Highway. 9,500 kilometres. Below … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[14,28,13],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-leicaq","tag-outback","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/adrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}