The First Supper

• Photographer
  Peter Ogden
• Technical Info
  Iso 400 24mm F-4.0 4secs Cropped Frame
• Photo Date
  April 6th 2023

My family has a love/hate relationship with camping. The kids aren’t too keen, but my wife and I love it. This Easter’s escape to Wingen, NSW was no exception. We camped here primarily because of the proximity to Barrington Tops National Park. I shot hundreds of images of the amazing sub-alpine region. But I keep coming back to this still life image as a record of our time there. A simple ‘after dinner’ tableau that features everything we love about camping – chocolate, wine, food, Pringles, coffee and fry ups…but it says so much about us as a family.

Australia is a landscape unique in its savagery and spectacle. Being UK born, I first arrived in Perth and that first experience saw me in the Nambung National Park whilst using a big stick to fend off brown snakes. I was the art director on a commercial photography shoot – keeping one eye on the back of the camera, the other firmly on the red dirt around the tripod. That juxtaposition, the incredibly beautiful landscape combined with the incredibly scary natural critters, has fascinated me ever since.