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I heard reports that the surf was up so I grabed my cameras and headed for the north end of Coogee Beach, a place famous for local kids in big surf. I was pleased to fing the locals kids revelling in the massive swell with 3 to 4 meter waves crashing onto the rocks. Some of the photo sequences are really dramatic.
"These would have to rate as some of my favorite photos" Freatured on the cover of the The Weekend Australian Feb 2013. Photographs taken during storm evet at Coogee Beach Feb 2013 after cyclonic winds hit eastern seaboard. These photos were chosen to feature this national interest story on Australia's weather.
The Telegraph Lake Woytchugga, near Wilcannia, has filled for the first time in a decade
Sally Brownbill Back in January I read a story in one of the magazines here in Melbourne
TimeOut Sydney Award-winning photographer Peter Elfes captures, in spectacular colour, the affect of La Nina on Lake Eyre
Australian Photography As Lake Eyre in South Australia continues to fill for a record breaking fourth year thousands of...
Australian Art Review In the summer of early 2009, massive flooding in the Georgina River led to the most significant...
NSW Events Following on from the highly successful 'The Arrival' exhibition in 2011, Peter's new exhibition
The Australian Financial Review Life & Leisure Magazine June 2011. Photographer Peter Elfes hangs out of helicopters to capture ...
Concrete Playground While Peter Elfes’ photographs are spectacularly striking, capturing an entire colour wheel’s worth of natural phenomena ...
The Green Desert The Green Desert exhibition is a journey through time into the ancient world of Australia’s deserts, and the ever-changing ...
Water into the Lake Eyre basin Following the overwhelming interest in the first public showing of The Arrival exhibition...
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SBS TV SBS coverage of Peter Elfes on the Lake Eyre Photo Exhibitions
ABC TV ABC News coverage of HeadOn Photo exhibition and Peter Elfes speaking about the Lake Eyre Region and his relationship with the area.
ABC Radio National Podcast Imagine the view of Australia from space right now. La Nina and her flooding rains have had a huge impact on our nation and not just on the coastline. The flaming reds and burnished browns that our sunburnt country is renowned for have been replaced by huge swaths of green and are positively humming with life. Peter Elfes has spent the past three years documenting the transformation.
ABC Radio National Late Night Live In two weeks' time the Arabunna people of South Australia will be formally recognised as the native title owners of a huge slab of that state, including Lake Eyre. Attending the ceremony and celebration will be photographer Peter Elfes, whose aerial photography of the 'green desert' and water-filled lake is exciting national and international interest.
ABC north/west/SA Over the last four years Lake Eyre has transformed from a vast white salt pan into a thriving oasis, teeming with technicolour tones. Sydney photographer, Peter Elfes, has documented this burst of colour which has filled our arid interior.
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Peter Elfes and Earths Fractals
Lake Eyre, has long held a fascination with Australian artist like John Olsen, Sydney Nolan & Tim Storrier.
The Weekend Australian In the past four years an enormous amount of water has arrived in Lake Eyre basin, which covers almost one-sixth of the continent...
Life on the Moon Life returns to the moon
AAR Australian Art Review Magazine nature in flux Jan/Feb 2012. When water comes to the desert, ancient, dry rivers run white...
The Weekend Australian In the past four years an enormous amount of water has arrived in Lake Eyre basin, which covers almost one-sixth of the continent...
Lifestyle Desert Blooms Coogee photographer Peter Elfes captures Australia's deserts flush with life that could barely be imagined a decade ago.