HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue  Read more »

We inhabit our own geographies… geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational haunts or to the homes of friends. But geographies remembered and real do not always accord…

I remember Pierre well but I’m not sure that his memory of me is as sharp. I got this impression one Saturday afternoon in the late summer of 2007 when a friend and I were walking the foot track that follows the Tamar River. It was on the banks of that river that we encountered him…

Discussions of the past raise questions about memory… is it unique or can it be a reconstructed reality? A mystery package and a burning fuel drum stimulate our wonderings…

The turbid waters off Balmain wharf hold a dark secret now covered in the mud of decades. It’s origin can be traced back to a young woman and young man who late one afternoon were walking along Glebe Point Road…

It is now 1970 and now, at 168 Cathedral Street, people were to come and go through the year, however there would remain a core of permanent residents to bring a sense of continuity and stability to the share house…