Blue Mountains Icons 19

I have suddenly realised that I haven't featured a Blue Mountains scene in quite a while now. I really do have to post one from time to time or else people will think that I've moved house and no longer live here.

Today's icon is the generic "Blue Mountains Lookout". Some of these quaint little vantage points complete with almost heritage listed concrete slabs and equally heritage rusting pipe and chicken wire railings have been features of the Blue Mountains' walking tracks for well over a hundred years. Many of them are important in the images of famous early Blue Mountains photographer, Harry Phillips, whose monochrome postcards often depicted tourists at iconic locations in ludicrously formal Edwardian fashion. I sort of felt obliged to render today's image in reminiscent monochrome. Incidentally, here we are looking over one of the two "Blackheathen" valleys, The Megalong.

If you are interested, here are two of Harry's pictures, both of which are nearly 100 years old. This one features the old shop he used to run in the main street of Katoomba while the other one shows one of his Blue mountains scenic outlooks.