An Evocation of Country: Colours of This Website

Image Credits

Using images from this site

The photographs on this site were taken at gatherings I hosted or attended. The people in them agreed to appear here, on my website. That agreement does not extend anywhere else.

You are welcome to share any page here by linking to it. Please do not download, copy, screenshot, or crop the photographs and put them somewhere I did not choose, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, newsletters, or print. If you would like to use one, write to me and ask. Permission is often given, and it takes one email.

I keep the credits below in one place so they stay accurate. If you believe an image here is yours and is not properly credited, or you appear in one and would rather not, use the form at the foot of this page. It comes straight to me, and I will correct it, or remove the image promptly if that is what is needed.

The Home Page

The photographs behind the four coloured door panels on the home page, in the order they appear.

Ramsay Street, Cloncurry, February 1966 (My History panel) State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. A widescreen crop of the photograph credited in full under Archival photographs below; resized for the web, not otherwise altered.
Remah Naji (Yarning Circles panel) Photograph courtesy of Remah Naji. Used with permission for this site. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Consulting the Calendar (First Nations Community Calendar panel) Base photograph by Anete Lusina, via Pexels, used under the Pexels licence. The printed calendar page shown in her hands is this site’s own artwork, composited onto the photograph for illustration.
Uncle Bill by the ocean (Stay in Touch panel) Photograph courtesy of Uncle Bill Lemson.

Photographs of me, and of the Yarning Circles

My portraits, the photographs of Yarning Circles and community gatherings, and the images in the reports of those mornings, are our own.

Philippe took many of the photos, and his images, or those taken by participants in the Yarning Circles, are used with permission; they belong to me and to the communities in which they were made.

Colours from Country

The images illustrating the palette on Colours from Country are credited individually below. Where a licence requires it, the licence is named and linked, and any slight adaptation we may have made to the image is stated. Note: none of the images here are AI-generated.

We exhibit here the eight colours we have deployed as a colour-scheme for the site drawn from the Country of my birth, early years, working life, and the stone beneath, each colour image-source traceable to a named photographer, a stated licence, and a true place.

The 'colourbar' present on this and nearly every page is thus not merely decorative; it is an evocation of Country.

Mulla mulla lilac: pink mulla mulla in flower Photograph by d3j4vu, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped to 16:9 and resized. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Warm cream: kapok bush among the dry grass, Mount Isa Photograph by John Robert McPherson, via Wikimedia Commons, released under CC0. No attribution is required; credited with thanks. Cropped and resized.
Deep ink: Mount Isa at night Photograph by Rob and Stephanie Levy, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Coolibah green: a varied lorikeet in flowering gum, Cloncurry Photograph by HaraldW1954, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yellow ochre: a hillside in first sun, Mitakoodi country Photograph by Lobster1, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Terracotta dust: weathered stone near Duchess, Selwyn Range country Photograph by Lobster1, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Earth red: Cloncurry country from the air Photograph by Jellyhelmetfishing, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
River blue: the Cloncurry River at the Taldora crossing Photograph by Kerry Raymond, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized, not otherwise altered. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Copper green: pseudomalachite and chrysocolla, Mt Glorious Mine, Cloncurry District Photograph by Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com, via Wikimedia Commons. Adapted for this page (enlarged, set on a ground drawn from our Mount Isa image). Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. The specimen was collected on Cloncurry District copper country.

Elsewhere on the site

Illustrations and historical images used in the History chapters and through Keep Walking are credited on the pages that carry them.

The Aboriginal Flag was designed by the late Mr Harold Thomas. Copyright is held by the Commonwealth of Australia, and the flag is freely available for public, non-commercial use.

Archival photographs on My History and Lorraine Station

These photographs illustrate the world my family lived in. None of them shows me, my father, or any member of my family. Each caption on the page says so plainly, and each is repeated here with its source.

Young boy seated on the back of a saddled horse, Woorabinda, 1933 Photograph by S. Smith. State Library of Queensland, negative APA-111-0001-0045. Free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered. This record carries the State Library’s advisory that it contains Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content.
The Regent Theatre, Charters Towers, around 1950 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Retrieved through Wikimedia Commons, where the item carries a public domain mark. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Ramsay Street, Cloncurry, February 1966 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Horse and camel team, Cloncurry, around 1904 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Coolabah on the Burke River floodplain, Boulia Photograph by John Robert McPherson, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped at the foot and resized for the web.
Exterior view of the post office at Burketown, 1920 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Homestead on a station property in outback Queensland, around 1925 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Stockman prepares to mount his horse, between 1910 and 1920 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Lorraine Station, North Queensland, 1952 Still frame from film by Alfred James Hoole, State Library of Queensland, 27318/12. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Colour-balanced, deinterlaced, denoised, sharpened and enlarged; film frame edges trimmed and resized for the web. No content was generated, removed or added.
Lorraine Station working complex, North Queensland, 1952 Still frame from film by Alfred James Hoole, State Library of Queensland, 27318/12. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Film frame edges trimmed, gently colour-balanced, sharpened and enlarged; resized for the web. No content was generated, removed or added.
Group of Aboriginal stockmen at Canobie Station, 1895 Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, State Library of Queensland, API-87-0001-0043. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Leichhardt River on Lorraine Station, North Queensland, 1910 to 1935 Creator unidentified, Reverend Herbert Norton Papers, State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered, including the damage across the sky of the original print.
Aboriginal stockmen Digby Denham and Old Mango at Midgenoo, 1916 Creator unidentified, State Library of Queensland. No known copyright restrictions; accessed and used in accordance with State Library’s Protocols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections. Displayed at native resolution; not altered.
Wage account of Harry Henry, Forest Vale Station ledger, folio 28, 1915 to 1924 Lethbridge Family, Ledger 1913 to 1929, folio 28, Forest Vale Station, OM84-16/21, State Library of Queensland. The catalogue identifies Harry Henry among employees of Aboriginal heritage. An employer wage ledger, not a government trust-account register. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Drovers at Auburn Station, Queensland, around 1900 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Drafting horses at Avon Downs Station State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Horsebreaking at Tinnenburra Station, 1941 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Drover’s camp at Hughenden, around 1916 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright, free to use with attribution. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.

Archival photographs on the Cherbourg page

These photographs illustrate the settlement described on the About Cherbourg page. None of them shows me or any member of my family. Each is a historical illustration of the place and the period.

The entrance to Cherbourg State Aboriginal Settlement State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Shelters at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, around 1920 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Drill outside the school, Barambah State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Cherbourg under its own council Photograph by jthnz, published through Mapillary and available from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Cropped to remove the camera mounting and resized for the web; not otherwise altered. The cropped version is offered under the same licence.
Large group at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 1907 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Stockmen at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 1911 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Hospital and store buildings at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 1911 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Nurse with three generations at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 1911 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
Barambah rugby league team, 1930s State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
View of Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, 1931 State Library of Queensland. Out of copyright. The State Library asks only that it be named: “You are free to use without permission. Please attribute the State Library of Queensland.” Cropped along the foot to remove the watermark strip and resized for the web; not otherwise altered.
The road into Cherbourg Photograph by Philippe Foubert, taken on the road into Cherbourg. Resized for the web; not otherwise altered.

The video on the Cherbourg page

The video Our History, Our Stories, Our Voices is the work of The Ration Shed Museum, the community museum at Cherbourg. It is embedded from the museum’s own YouTube channel, so the museum keeps control of it and can amend or withdraw it at any time. Nothing is copied or re-hosted here.