The Evening Comes
Bette Devine
Slow exposure shot across to Mossy Point
Many years ago, returning to Melbourne from a photography trip to Queensland ( I was a free-lance landscape photographer) I passed, quite accidentally, through Mossy Point and photographed Candlagan Creek where it enters the sea. That photograph later graced a desk diary.
How could I know, then, that years later I would be returning to the Eurobodalla coast and hinterland and discovering so much of its mystery and beauty.
My eldest daughter, Kerry, chose Broulee as the place where she wanted to live – and her place became my base for exploration of the coast and hinterland – and the development of a huge love for the seascapes and landscapes of Eurobodalla. I’d travelled Australia widely in my campervan in the years before, but can say truthfully that I have never come across a region so blessed with beauty.
The coast around Mossy Point is a place which draws me every time I visit my daughter and the image that I’ve presented shows why, I think.
postcript – I just had a flashback memory of taking one of my grandsons to the headland one evening, to teach him how to make long exposures with his camera. After a few bad starts, he created an image which made him dance around with such joy that I feared he would fall from the cliff! We returned to Kerry’s house to show her his work – and later that image became a framed photograph in his bedroom.
Bette Devine
March 2022
‘ I was born and grew up in the country and do not remember a time when I did not feel one with Nature. I remember myself as a child, putting my arms around a rock (not a tree!) and becoming one with it…….. ‘
Bette Devine
