MOUNT LINDESAY (4064ft). with its castellated summit, may be termed the giant warder of the Macpherson Range. The New England Highway winds around on the lower slopes, and travellers on this road have intimate glimpses of at least three sides of the picturesque mountain. This striking picture of the northern shoulder was secured, using an abnormal telephoto lens, at a point on the road a mile distant from the rocky cliffs which are such a feature of the mass. The large lens was responsible for a picture, which, if taken with a camera with usual equipment, to secure a comparable size of image, would have necessitated the photographer approaching to within 200 yards of the cliff face, where it would have been impossible to have secured a picture of the subject. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Queenslander Illustrated Weekly (Brisbane, Qld. : 1927 - 1939), Wed 1 Feb 1939, Page 22
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