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Paluma Photo Exhibition 2026
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Juanita Poletto
Fungi Love 3
Somewhere on one of the many magnificent rainforest tracks around Paluma. Moss and mushrooms, what’s not to love.
Juanita Poletto
Fungi Love 2
Just love the wet season… so many different kinds of shapes and sizes.
Juanita Poletto
Fungi Love 1
These were so small, growing on a tiny twig fallen on a forest path.
Juanita Poletto
Satinash
My favourite rainforest tree for its rich orange, papery bark and purple fruit. Love the green contrast on this young ‘un’s trunk.
Juanita Poletto
Looking Up
The myriad forms of moss and lichens never fail to catch my eye.
Juanita Poletto
The Day Begins
This series of photographs have been skimmed from my iPhone collection. Definitely not of professional quality but more a personal reflection of why this place continues to hold me in its thrall.
Peter Cooke
Crimson rosella
The crimson rosella has seven sub-species. At Paluma our sub-species is Platycercus elegant nigrescens, smaller and darker than the nominate species. Adult crimson rosellas form lifelong pairs and remain together year round. Outside the breeding season they may forage in small groups or noisy feeding parties on the ground. They do like it when we let our lawns go to seed.
Peter Cooke
Golden Bowerbird
Golden Bowerbird from Birthday Creek
Peter Cooke
Len Cook
Although Len has rebranded as Len Cook’s Ceramic Studio, the original sign in Lennox Crescent is still standing in 2026 ... only just... the whiteants have been nibbling at the posts!
Peter Cooke
Len Cook
The man and his rustic workspace in Lennox Crescent. To visit the gallery at the back of the block, give Len a ring on 0427 708 530 to check he's home. Len's practice encompasses domestic ware, ceramic sculpture inspired by the coral forms of the Great Barrier Reef, and his anagama-fired work.
Peter Cooke
Len Cook
Len haas pursued a lifelong passion for wood-fired kilns and pots that are glazed by natural ash deposits over extended firing in traditional Japanese anagama (cave) kilns. Tending the anagama kiln in the background during firings has been something of a community occasion over the years. He's very happy with the 2026 firing.
Peter Cooke
Len Cook
Len Cook has been making pottery in Paluma since 1980. He is regarded as one of Australia’s foremost wood-fired potters. His retrospective "Len Cook: Fire and Rain" in Townsville in 2024 celebrated 80 works from his career drawn from private and public collections.
Peter Cooke
White cheeked honey-eater
The white cheeked honeyeaters go nuts for the red calistemons in front of our place in spring time.
Peter Cooke
Pale yellow robin
Another cutie from Smith Crescent
Peter Cooke
Tooth-billed bowerbird.
Tooth billed bowerbird at the Birthday Creek car park on the Dam Road. Male TBBB can mimic more than 40 bird species as well as insects and bats. Voice mimicry is a primary tool to attract and impress females in the September to January breeding season.
Peter Cooke
Rufous fantail
Rufous fantail near a creek on the dam road
Peter Cooke
Here's looking at ya!
Rainbow lorikeet
Peter Cooke
Waiting for nirvana...or was that Banana?
Macleay's honey eater and Buddha on the deck
Peter Cooke
What do you think you're doing?
A curious Macleay's honeyeater
Peter Cooke
Male Victoria Rifle Bird
Male Victoria Rifle Bird displaying on our deck