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A typical roadside desert scene, Karijini National Park, Western Australia. The land between gorge oases is hot and dry. Karijini is the traditional (Banyjima) name for the Hamersley Range, part of which can be seen in the distance.
Even in the middle of a stinking hot 49 degree day in the middle of the Pilbara you can find water, be it very warm water ...
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Title : Hancocks Gorge, Karijini
Year : 2014
Location : Karijini National Park with Inspire Landscapes Tom Putt workshop
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Karijini National Park
Western Australia
What a wonderful place to visit!
Spectacular gorges.. spectacular landscapes.. spectacular nights !!
I've just come back from a camping trip to Karijini in the north of Western Australia. I was happy with our camping spot!
The colours of Karijini National Park.
Another in a series of images intended to convey the spirituality of the Australian Outback through ICM.
We went to Hamersley Gorge in Karijini for the first time this year - well, as a group that is. And we will definitely have to go there again next year, assuming our cars get there of course!
We drive to places around Karijini in convoy, leaving a kilometre or so between cars to let the dust settle. The dust isn't a problem if it is windy, but when it's still, the red mantle can hang in the air over the road for ages!
Recently I returned for a few days in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. After a proper wet season this year the area looks stunning with fresh green growth against the red earth, the colours looks spectacular. This particular image is the sun setting sun reflection in on of the many fresh water ponds that scatter the area at this time of year but do not last too long into the hot dry season.
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There is a softness in the landscape of Karijini. Even in the daytime, grasses show their silver and golden colours, and then glow in the afternoon light.
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Just finished a video of my trip to Karijini National Park. If you want to see some behind the scenes footage of this amazing place, head over to my blog and check it out.
On the last day of our trip to Karijini Mark Stothard and I did the canyoning trip down into the bottom of the gorge. This shot was taken at Junction Pool (where all the gorges meet) just under Oxters Lookout.
This tree is incredible, about a year and a half ago it fell into the water and continues to grow straight up from the water. We got to this spot at the perfect time, the light beams were backlighting the tree.
I love the contrast between the colours (red and blues in the rock) and greens in the tree and water.
More Karijini images to come.
Lucky for us the cloud stayed around all day, and provided a magnificent backdrop to the already magical landscape. We even got a small display of anti-crespicular rays to finish the day. A nice touch.
You cannot get sick of looking at the beauty of Karijini.
Every night we spent at Karijini, the moon was in a slightly different position, changing each photo opportunity completely.
Kermits Pool, at the base of the accessible section of Hancock Gorge, Karijini National Park lies this incredibly cold but beautiful green coloured pool. The green of the pool is contrasted by the deep reds and oranges of the surrounding 2.5 billion year old banded iron formation walls.
One of many images to come from my winter Karijini trip.
Hamersley Gorge. Is this a different view? Probably not!
My little comment about originality in photography received a lot of supportive comments a few weeks back. However, sometimes when you visit a location, it can be difficult to be original. And even when you try something new, chances are someone else has done it before you.
Such as this 'different' view of Spa Pool at Hamersley Gorge. The front of this amazing rock formation has become very popular in recent years, so when Tony Hewitt and I visited there last week with ten intrepid photographers, I looked for an angle that was 'different'. Well, different for me, but I am sure there are many photographers viewing this newsletter who have taken a similar angle.
Don't get me wrong. If you visit Hamersley Gorge, I think you should photograph the pool from the front. It's like visiting Uluru or the Sydney Opera House. It's a rite of passage for all of us to photograph these icons and to add them to our portfolio.
However, I have been lucky enough to visit Hamersley a couple of times before, so on this occasion, I had the luxury of looking for something that was new for me - and hopefully my treatment of the image will make it distinctively mine.
It has been photographed with a 23mm Rodenstock Digaron lens on an Alpa TC with a Phase One IQ180 medium format back. The raw file was processed in Capture One and the final post-production in Photoshop. The bright colour on the water in the background is natural, just in case you were wondering, as is the colour of the rocks on the right. Most unlike me, isn't it!
If you're interested in joining Tony Hewitt and me on our next trip to New Zealand this June, we have some places left and we are definitely going. Think of it as nearly a week of high-powered photographic instruction, from our capture secrets all the way through to one-on-one post-production instruction in the New Zealand High Country. And unlike Hamersley Gorge, I can guarantee that some of our locations will have been seen by very few photographers before!
But don't take my word for it! There's a great little e-brochure I've created which has all the details - click following link to have a look! issuu.com/workingpro/docs/adventuresinnz-2015/1
I have no idea who the young lady is. I like the scale she adds to the photograph. Great place to visit that I will be frequenting more often.
Exploring gorges of Karijini in Western Australia. Note me at the base of a waterfall for the scale.
Anyone fancy a dip? I was lucky to have this place to myself on sunset. What a great place to hang out and cool off.
Weano Gorge Pool, Karijini, Western Australia
I'm still thinking about this one. Not sure if I like the warm rocks in the middle or if it is too strong. Thinking, thinking, thinking...
For such an amazing place, it can be really challenging to capture an image that properly shows what an incredible location Karijini is. Weano and Hancock Gorges are down below Oxers Lookout, the quintessential overview that everyone who visits has to shoot. We usually shoot it once or twice because the walks into both gorges begin here, and we usually do both gorges.
I'm not sure which gorge is better either, but I digress. Weano is an easy walk in, but then it tends to get a little wet! You definitely have to wade the first pool up to your waist, and then you have a choice of walking around the edge of the pool or just taking the plunge and swimming through. I take a dry bag to put my camera backpack in and take the plunge these days - the water is refreshing and it takes no time at all to dry at the other end.
Past this pool is a short walk and then a series of narrow slots that are easy to walk or climb through, opening up into a small pool (seen above) before into a much larger pool, imaginatively called Hand Rail Pool because there's a hand rail to help you get into there. If you're taking a tripod, make sure you take a backpack that lets you tie your tripod on, leaving both hands free for the handrail and the ladder down to the pool. With two hands, it's very easy and very safe.
So back to the little pool above. The photograph is taken with an ultra wide-angle lens, equivalent to a 14mm or thereabouts on a full-frame DSLR. By sitting back against the wall and bringing the tripod in towards me, I could fit the full circle of the pool into the frame. It's a simple composition. It possibly needs a little something more, like a penguin swimming through or something like that.
Or perhaps a splash of light. This is one of the challenges shooting in the gorges. If you go during the middle of the day, direct sunshine can create incredible contrast between the highlights and shadows, making it difficult to get an adequate exposure. By shooting in the early morning or late afternoon, we don't have the problem, but the light is flatter and you have to create your own energy. Perhaps a sunbeam of light will do it, but that would mean copying one of Christian Fletcher's Freaky Fotoshop Fudges, and I couldn't do that!
What I did notice when exploring the image in Capture One was how the image responded to different white balance settings. The raw file was processed twice, the second time with a much warmer white balance setting is and this explains the different colouration.
This is where the track past those trees (last two posts) took us....... to this beautiful swimming hole.
A single photograph of one of the many water falls located in the Karijini National Park Western Australia
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So it will be another year before I can get back to Karijini National Park to photograph stunning scenes like this. Till then here is an image I took a couple of years back on my last visit there, something very different to what I will be photographing with a few mates next month in Iceland.
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