By this time I doubt I would have many readers left as I haven't posted anything for so long... But sometimes it is time to take a backward step and examine where we are and where we are going. Luckily for me, while things have been pretty difficult for the last four months that time has past and I look forward to getting back into the swing of life again having had a very, very quiet sojourn in a very beautiful but isolated place.Though while I have been here I have not been lax. I was in fact working for a very small local newspaper but again, luckily for me I managed to follow the entire story of the Snowy River 'environmental flushing flows' which has been an incredible victory for environmental commonsense and an interesting piece in vested stakeholder co-operation.This is the link to the story hereI have to say that as a photojournalist it was probably one of the most spiritually uplifting events I have ever witnessed, the water channeling through the dam spillgates with such incredible power was amazing...and to shoot the entire scene from the air in a small helicopter was electric... but it was when a few days later that I drove down into my backyard and saw my part of the Snowy River flowing alive and free that it was a complete revelation...It was like hope had begun to flow through the earths veins again...The fella in the photograph is Ngarigo Elder Uncle (Angel) John Gallard and a very special human being. We watched together as the first water flowed back from the dam into the Snowy River for forty years. It was a very life revealing event...