Wolumla Dairy
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 27mm · f/8.0 · 1/500 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Sunlight illuminates the decaying interior of the Wolumla Dairy. Timber walls show years of neglect, paint peeling. This structure once processed milk, a vital part of the agricultural history in the Bega Valley.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Wolumla Dairy
- Series
- The Dairy
- Catalogue
- DAI-002
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 29 December 2018
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/500 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 27 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Various, Australia
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
A weathered timber dairy shed sits low in an open paddock near Wolumla, on the NSW Far South Coast. Corrugated iron roofing has rusted to a deep oxide red, peeling back in places along the ridgeline. Grey hardwood cladding runs the length of the building, its boards split and silvered by decades of coastal weather. Lantana and scrub press against the walls. Eucalypt forest rises thick on the hillside behind. The grass is wet green, recently rained on.
Brett Patman
The series
The Dairy
The dairy was once a cornerstone of rural life,a place of early mornings, steady hands, and the quiet rhythm of milk cans and cattle. These small buildings, scattered across the countryside, played an essential role in sustaining communities built around the land. Photographed across remote farmland and pastoral regions, this collection captures the character of these structures,some still in use, others long abandoned, their timber walls and corrugated iron roofs bearing the wear of time and changing industry. Many of these dairies, once vital to families and local economies, now stand silent, replaced by larger operations or lost to history. Yet their presence on the landscape remains, markers of a way of life that endures in memory. Through these images, step into the quiet solitude of these timeworn spaces, where traces of the past still linger in the empty stalls and weathered doorways. Explore the collection below.
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