Go Outside.

...and take your camera.

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TO THE ISLAND 4 November 2014

A short hike to the pinnacles, a rocky exploration of an area that can only be assimilated to gates of Mordor, a quick surf in hypothermia inducing water, and the best bikini ass we as a collective have ever spotted. The island delivered. Dead set though, this place has some mean Gelati.

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JOHN MARSDEN'S HELL December 7 2014

To anyone who is a fan of the Tomorrow When The War Began series - we did it! We found John Marsden's "Hell". Captured on a Mamiya 645 PRO medium format SLR, on Kodak Portra 400 film. More adventures, videos and photography atwww.andrewnorthover.com.au

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Traralgon Thunder January 7 2015 So after the monsoonal downpour of biblical proportions that was obviously intended to Noah's Ark out all the terrorists, who are trying to put a dampener on our shiny new 2015, Emma Kate and I decided to head out and try our luck at capturing the drier end of last night's incredible electrical storm. 

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Geminids Meteor Shower 13 December 2014 Last night we were fortunate enough to be celebrating Luke Inger's birthday in Seacombe, one of Gippsland's more remote and isolated locations, during "Geminids" which is being referred to as one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. After a big night of stargazing, I managed to capture this image at about 2.30am after everyone had head to bed and the high altitude cloud layer had finally disappeared.

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The Magic School Bus

That weekend we went on a road trip to somewhere and found an abandoned bus to play in instead. One day I'll grow up* *not really. "Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. - Alexander Supertramp May 1992 "  Kodak Portra 400 film Mamiya 645 Pro Medium Format Camera.

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Mt. Hedrick 26 October 2014

There’s always something so rewarding about heading blind onto a hiking trail you have no idea about. The possible distance, the terrain, the scenery - it’s all a mystery. The outcome, however, was one of the more scenic hikes we’ve completed to date, which was wrapped up with some river-side billy tea, biscuits, dip, and 8 meter cliff dives into the Avon river. #youth

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Follow the Sun October 10, 2014

Every year, my friend Orane, her twin sister Melisande and myself make a birthday video for each other. Each year, these videos get progressively better, and for 2014, i've hidden 7 individual geocaches that all reside within a 1.5 hour radius of my home town of Traralgon, where these two girls are coming to stay in the summer to locate this hidden birthday message.

If you find these caches before January 2015, be sure to leave a nice message for these two beautiful souls.

The full story can be viewed at http://www.andrewnorthover.com.au.

Music:

Follow The Sun - Xavier Rudd http://www.xavierrudd.com/

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CACHES:

Download the Google Earth file for the caches here: http://bit.ly/1v6xONo

O&M Birthday Cache #1 - Happy -37.965133° 145.624967°

O&M Birthday Cache #2 - Birthday -37.701100° 147.360500°

O&M Birthday Cache #3 - Orane -39.040300° 146.344817°

O&M Birthday Cache #4 - Melisande -38.473517° 146.379750°

O&M Birthday Cache #5 - Love From -37.807417° 146.856067°

O&M Birthday Cache #6 - Andy -37.973333° 146.422867°

O&M Birthday Cache #7 - Take Me Home -38.364517° 146.415400°

(Please leave trackable within the cache for the girls to take home to France).

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WEEKENDS Episode III - Soar September 9 2014

What was originally an informal plan for a handful of friends to spend the day outside, actually ended up becoming an 11 person adventure day back where it all started at the beginning of the “Weekends” series – Wilson’s Promontory. 

This installment showcases an amazing day spent hiking & flying kites through various places on Australia’s southernmost point, but mainly this video captures the shared excitement of being young, spontaneous, and wild. 

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Equipment used:

Canon 5D Mark II (Magic Lantern)

Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L II

Music:

Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song (1965)

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THE WEEKENDS SERIES

Since moving back to Gippsland, I've noticed more and more people complaining that they need to leave. What people need to realise, is that we live in one of the greatest parts of Victoria. You just need to know how to enjoy it. I have therefore decided to make a web series titled "Weekends" showcasing what my friendship group and I do when we aren't working, in an effort to capture how amazing the place we live in can be.

View more at www.andrewnorthover.com.au

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Soar August 30, 2014

The photo series that accompanies the latest episode in the Weekends Series, Episode III: Soar. More adventures at www.andrewnorthover.com.au Entire gallery shot on medium format film in a Mamiya 645 PRO SLR on Fuji 160S (Courtesy of James Ruff - Cheers). View the video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eroA_w20sEE&list=UU236FGryltPD2Ps7hoqhtLA

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8 October 2014

Taking a photo of the moon last night was my original intention, however when we hiked out to the top of a mountain in the middle of the Jeeralang's to observe the stunning 'blood moon' lunar eclipse from an exclusive vantage point, id realised a simple shot of the red moon wouldn't give it justice. Rather than capturing the moon, I decided to capture the event. A spontaneous group of friends hiking out to the forest to observe one of nature's greatest spectacles - the night sky. (NB: All stars, including galaxies are legitimately captured and not added in photoshop).

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August 16 2014

It was a Saturday, the weather was starting to feel more like spring, and our plans to go to Hotham for the weekend fell through due to no room at the inn. We were young, we were free, and we had a full day of nothing to fill with adventure. Within an hour, we had 5 people assembled and ready for exploration. 

With no real destination in mind, we decided to head up into gold mining region behind Walhalla in an effort to locate one of the many huts scattered through this part of Gippsland. 

Roughly 10km out from our desired destination, we found an old gold mining town’s cemetery located on the side of a rather steep mountain. There was an information sign in the area stating that very little is known about who is buried in this graveyard, and if anyone has any information to contact the number indicated below. Naturally, we had to explore the place, and were amazed at the layout of the graveyard. Small, circular rings of quartz rocks identified the resting place of the individuals in question, in an orientation that i can only assume was buried vertically. There was definitely an element of creepy to this place, so we didn’t stick around.

Further down the road, we found the abandoned mine shaft. A good 30m deep hole cut in the top of a mountain, complete with kiln, chimney and large crankshaft. It’s incredible to see this stuff, as it’s a process that has just become entirely obsolete.

In our final moments searching for the fabled hut, it was getting clear we had ran out of time and needed to return home. Fortunately, for the remaining photos left on the film, a dense fog flooded the valley, and we were left with one hell of an awesome perspective of the forest.

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Decided yesterday to just jump in the car, drive 2 hours, and run through the trees of this random, enchanted forest.

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LIGHTS OFF. LAMPS ON

Spontaneity is without a doubt the greatest trait you can share with your friends. With next to no notice at all, we were able to assemble 11 people within an hour to head up to Tarra Bulga National Park in the middle of the night for some full moon hiking through the eerie, enormous forest. A quick visit to the store got us a handful of glowsticks and Chinese lanterns which we mounted to the ends of sticks to light the way.

This one is definitely added to the books for funnest nights out.