Summary

This photograph depicts a man, woman and dog at a rocky outcrop overlooking a waterhole while on a bush picnic. The man stands astride a little waterfall that is flowing into the waterhole, while the woman sits on rocks with the dog standing beside her. Their images are reflected in the water. The moustachioed man wears a dark felt hat, lightweight jacket which is unbuttoned, light-coloured shirt, trousers, and shoes. The woman wears a light-coloured dress of a striped material with leg-'o-mutton sleeves and high collar, dark shoes, and a lavishly decorated wide-brimmed hat. By her side is an umbrella.

The rock formations are most likely somewhere in the Newcastle Range, a 150km volcanics group that runs north-south roughly 50km east of Georgetown. As Reverend Hall was appointed as Curate (and later Curate-in-Charge) of the Georgetown parish, the Newcastle Range may have served as an excellent option for day trips as it is not an unreasonable distance to travel by carriage from the townships of Georgetown, Forsayth and Mount Surprise.

The photographs in this collection were taken by the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall (1878-1926) during the period 1902-1909 when he was the Anglican Curate appointed to Georgetown in North Queensland. Hall's foremost hobby was photography. He used both a half-plate camera with tripod made by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham and a quarter-plate Austral No. 3 made by the Australian company, Baker & Rouse. Glass negatives from Ilford and Austral were used; developing was done by the photographer himself and printing by exposure to sunlight.