We had been on the road for a few months, and the plan roughly had been to make a figure eight around Australia, that is, from Geelong where we lived, through the centre to Darwin, then down the west coast, back up through the centre to Three Ways and across to the top of Queensland, before heading down the east coast.

It was an ambitious plan and didn't go quite as well as we would have liked, money is the big thing, and so it took a few years to "finish off" the second part of the figure-eight as if you ever really finish a road trip like that, and this time it was in a car with a small caravan.

This was back before digital cameras were affordable. In the back of the van were an insulated bag full of Kodachrome for one camera, black and white negative film for another, and colour negative film for our small point and shoot camera.

Kodachrome gave a resolution of what is now around 16 megapixels and back then cost more than a dollar per photo. It was rationed carefully and thought was put into each image before the shutter was pressed.

As well we had a new 8mm video camera, but now, 30 years on, that vision is practically useless, the image being only a few hundred pixels wide.

While we went to the obvious spectacular sights like Uluru, Kakadu, and the Blue Mountains, for me it was about finding interesting images in ordinary places, and here are a few.

- Phillip Biggs