‘High Country’ was inspired by a trip to the Victorian high country (Australia), and this scene more specifically from the snow fields on Mount Buller in the late Autumn. It was just before the first snow, and the town was empty, eery and ghosty, yet anticipatory of the coming season. The view over the range was of old possibly dead ghost gums, and were stark in white against the dark blue eucalypts blanketing the mountains in the distance. (Note to international readers, Australian mountains are more like your hills. The land is so old that the eroded mountains only just register as mountains, but hey it’s all relative.. for us they’re high and cold ;). The sound is what gets me in these places. The sound of wind is below you; the sound of birds are distant, and the general quality of all sounds are so different that you can’t help but feel it in your soul.