Category: Australia (not WA)

This post’s photo is this series’ final “from Stokes Hill” landscape image, albeit its penultimate “from Stokes Hill…” shot.

All the landscape shots were taken within the space of 12 minutes.

This one looks west-ish, toward some of the mightiest of Wilpena Pound’s ramparts.

This chapter’s featured image was taken six minutes after the #15 one in this series.

I invite you to revisit the #15 image, and follow its sunbathed ridgeline, along to the right hand side of the photo.

There – as “minor details” – you can see some of the very same “grass trees”, and the  same more distant range and ridgelines that are the “heroes”,here.

This chapter’s photo was taken less than a minute after #19’s in this series.

For #19 I used a “short” lens (46mm); for this one, I wheeled around, circa 100 degrees to my right, and deployed a much longer (400mm) lens.

The photo looks a little south of due east, towards vast, increasingly flatter, drier expanses.

Shortly after I photographed #18’s “bush tomato”, I forsook the long lens, in favour of  a shorter, wider one, which I pointed north.

Undulating, “arid zone”, outback Australian places really “sing” when they “bathe” in dappled winter light.

Less than sixty seconds after I had taken the two previous “from Stokes Hill” images, my feet had not moved very far.

I shouldered the other camera (and a much longer lens – 400mm, effectively) and scanned the fast-shifting play of light and shade across an “ancient”, “unspoilt”, “semi-arid” landscape.