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Golden dawn breaks over the expansive livestock sale yards, casting long shadows across rows of steel pens filled with merino sheep. A lone stockman stands silhouetted against the brilliant sunrise, surveying the morning's auction preparations in the Riverina region of New South Wales. Hundreds of woolly sheep huddle together, their pale fleeces catching the first amber light, creating a textural landscape of wool and metal infrastructure. The precise geometric lines of the sale yard's barriers contrast with the organic clusters of livestock, highlighting the structured nature of agricultural commerce. Early morning sunlight streams through the shed's slatted roof, creating a dramatic backlighting effect that transforms the routine of livestock trading into a moment of visual poetry. This scene captures the timeless rhythm of rural Australian agricultural markets - a blend of human expertise, animal husbandry, and the raw beauty of the working landscape.