Peter MacDonald began photographing Lake Eyre in the year 2000 in a cycle of drought.
In 2010, when the rains came, he recorded the miraculous explosion of life as the Salt Lakes basin filled.
In 2013 he flew over the Lakes at 10,000 feet. Through the open door of a light aircraft, Peter photographed perfectly delineated abstracts desert-scapes, formed where surfaces meet – the dry salt bed, brackish salt water, fresh rain flooding in from the creeks and the muddy edges of the dunes.
In 2014 and 2015 Peter continued his project, photographing nearby Lake Frome, at that time filled with pure rainwater. He recorded brilliant and liquid colours, an artist’s palette mixed from the elements of life.
This exhibition features Peter’s recent works, alive with extraordinary colours and fluid forms rarely seen.
Peter has lived in the Flinders Ranges for over 20 years. He is a pilot and a master photographer. Over the past 20 years Peter has explored areas of the far-north rarely seen by others.