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Solid Rock

Sandstone rock on the Barrenjoey Headland.
Palm Beach, Sydney.
It's been there for a long time, I suspect!!

And here's legendary Australian band 'Goanna' with their song: 'Solid Rock' (1982) - from their album 'Spirit Of Place'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNxFGW09Mo

‘Solid Rock’ deals with issues of land rights for the aboriginal people of Australia. According to songwriter Shane Howard, the inspiration for the song came on a 10-day camping trip at Uluru (Ayres Rock) in Central Australia, in 1980, where he saw ‘an incredible injustice that needed to be dealt with … I had to reassess my whole relationship with the land and the landscape, and understand that we [the white people] had come from somewhere else, and we had disempowered a whole race of people when we arrived.’

The protest message resonated with the Australian public, with the single peaking at Number 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report and winning Best Debut Single at the 1982 Countdown Music and Video Awards.

They were a band that also passionately supported environmental issues. Their next song was entitled: 'Let The Franklin Flow' - all about the controversial decision to dam the Franklin River in Tasmania and thus destroy a pristine wilderness, at a time when Tasmanians, it seemed, wanted to dam all their rivers and build massive power stations everywhere!!

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 16-35mm lens.

Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Palm Beach (show map)

Taken on: November 3, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/9.0, 1/160 sec, 23mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	23mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Lightroom 4.1 (Windows)
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