About the Image(s)

I hate the way people drive across country where there are no tracks. Who knows what they kill under their tyres.

I started this image with that idea, then figured I would have to create my own critter. I shot rusted gearbox parts on a black sheet of paper and took different bits on different angles so I could assemble a body. The mouth is the lid of a tin; the eyes are a bolt; the tongue is a drill bit; the feet are a gadget used to lift a camp oven lid (home made). The wheel is our Land Rover shot at very wide angle while I was lying down in our driveway. Once assembled, I flipped the frilled lizard horizontally to get the light in the same direction. The background is of dead kangaroo bones I found on a sand dune out in Western Queensland. It was at the right angle and at the right depth of field for what I had in mind once I cloned out the bones. The sand kicking up is a spatter brush in various colours of sand. And lastly, I had to learn how to do transparent shadows for the lizard and the wheel to finish the image. All up there are 37 layers.

Don't go off the tracks!!!