Timothy Myers' Happy Place: The “Snowies” – Mt Selwyn
Everyone has a happy place. A patch of land, sea, or mountain where everything makes sense. A geographical and emotional pin, where the past, present, and future can connect easily or meaningfully. For camera journalist Timothy Myers, that place is Mt Selwyn; his childhood home and one of Australia’s first ski fields built by his grandfather.
“My early career first led me to live in Sydney, and now Los Angeles, but it was growing up at Mt Selwyn that I remember most fondly,” says Tim Myers. “You know that feeling when you take someone special back to the place you used to call home, and somehow now everything seems a little bit smaller? All of a sudden, the winding road behind Talbingo doesn’t feel as steep, the high plains at Kiandra don’t feel as vast, and then the hill where you learnt to ski, doesn’t feel as big. Even as I share my own story of this place, I recognize a measure of insignificance after a lifetime of experience lived elsewhere since those formative years. But in fact, Mt Selwyn has a big place in modern Australian history too.”