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A farmer holding a Patagonian conure (Cyanoliseus patagonus) by it's right wing. The farmer is holding a stick in his right hand on which the bird is perched. This may be the incident mentioned on page 148 of 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer1991). See also slide 4689/160.

Animals milling about in what may be a farmyard.

Light from a window to the left illuminates the sitter. He is a middle aged man sitting on a chair with his right arm resting on a table. A gourd and bombilla are held in his left hand.

A smartly dressed man stands next to an elderly, but well cared for, blue pickup truck. Capel Nazareth, Drofa Dulog is in the background. This is probably Kenny Evans and his Pontiac, immortalised on pages 154 - 155 of 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer, 1991).

A thin strip of land at the very bottom of the photograph emphasises the vastness of the empty sky above.

A young woman with dark hair walks along the side of a ploughed field accompanied by a small black and white dog. The woman is wearing a white blouse and a pale blue apron. Identity of young woman not known

Taken from a gently sloping hillside the view is of snow covered mountain peaks glimpsed through a gap in the trees.

A dusty alley with children playing in the middle distance.

A barn in the centre of the frame in the middle distance. On the right is a stand of poplars. This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia." See also slides 4689/210-211.

A closer view of a dilapidated barn near Trevelin.This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer, 1991) on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

A bird flies over a desolate looking barn. This is the barn mentioned on page 194 of 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer, 1991) " ...one day I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood beside the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did so the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

The photograph is dominated by a dilapidated barn in the centre of the frame viewed from across a field. On the right is a stand of poplars. This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

A bay horse in the middle distance standing next to a fence. In the foreground is a tall plant with small white flowers, in the background poplars.

Bethel Chapel, Gaiman built in 1884.

Gable end and main entrance of Bethel chapel, Tir Halen - a small brick built chapel set in scrubland. Slide 4689/182 is a variant of this.

A bird of prey in the far distance photographed against a blue sky. See also slide 4689/225.

A bird of prey photographed against a bright blue sky, possibly Milvago chimango