Showing posts with label northern territory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label northern territory. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

GREAT SOUTHERN LAND

The Outback, Yulara NT
Shot from the air in the Northern Territory, enroute for an aerial loop of Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
Most people would visit the Northern Territory Australia to see one thing - Uluru. And why wouldn't you? It's amazing! However, after going there with Uluru firmly set in my sights I soon discovered that you should turn your head once in a while, to see the amazing landscape beyond this wonderous sight. Having gone up in the air, I was able to experience a different perspective of our outback.
The clouds helped shooting this image, shielding the earth from the glaring sun and creating some nice shadows and contrast throughout.
To celebrate the land Australian's live in, I will be releasing this image titled The Outback, Yulara NT

Monday, 13 June 2011

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY...ALMOST

Last night I sat down at my computer and flicked through some of my old shoots and actually discovered a few shots that I missed at the time of processing, that I really like this time around.
As a photographer, one of the best pieces of advise I could give is - to constantly look at your old shoots with fresh eyes to see if there was that one shot that you missed first time around that could be a winner or that could be viewed in a different light now (so to speak).
The image below was shot almost 1 year ago on a trip I went on to the Northern Territory. One of the options on the trip was to take a helicopter flight over Uluru & Kata Tjuta, which I couldn't refuse.
The landscape from the air in that area is something that has to be seen to be believed. Standing at almost 350m high and 9.5km around its base, Uluru is known as a monadnock or inselberg, which is a small mountain that rises abruptly from a virtually level surrounding plain.
As you can see in the image below Uluru is located in middle of nowhere - almost 350km south-west of the nearest largest town, Alice Springs.
For those of you that have been lucky enough to visit the rock, you might agree that it certainly has an eerie presence when you see and experience it. Not a bad prescence, just an undescribable prescence. And for me, each time I look through my images of this area I can relive that feeling. I hope you do too.

Uluru from the Air, NT
Over the coming days I will post these new/old shots. Each of these images will be available for purchase through www.joshpitt.com . Please leave any comments below.

Many thanks,
Josh :)