hey all

i have a great job which affords me travel to all sorts of places, including remote ones. for the past week i was lucky enough to be spending time with a client in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. This is a reasonably remote place, and about 115km south are the Devil's Marbles (Karlu Karlu to the locals). I had flown in to Alice Springs and picked up a hire car to drive the 500-odd kilometres north to Tennant. I got to the marbles with some great sun - not quite golden hour, but close enough to it; then i lost the sun to cloud cover (as you'll notice in the shots). The site itself was massive, and as it was i was jogging from spot to spot to try and get shots before the sun disappeared. next time i am going to allow myself a couple of hours to do it all properly!

C&C welcome.

1.



2.



3.



4.



5.



6.



7.



8.



9.



10.



11.



12.



13.



14.



15.



16.



17.



I'm really happy with 8, 9, and 10 because they needed some serious rescuing in post and turned out pretty well.

I know there isn't really anything in the photos to give you an idea of the size of them, but for example, the fat stack in 11, 13, and 16 was easily as big as a four storey building.


Bonus images (not from the Devil's Marbles)

Desert roads; thousands of km of this: (via phone)



View from lookout just out of Tennant Creek



View from lookout just out of Tennant Creek



This is almost the only right turn of note on the drive from Alice to Darwin. In fact, maybe from Adelaide to Darwin! The spot is, unsurprisingly, called "Three Ways" (via phone)



That's fine, but they're now longer than this... (via phone)



View over the back of Alice Springs from ANZAC hill, 20 minutes before a bit of weather broke (via phone)

[robjmitchell]

I like the second photo the most, seems the marbles got some nice morning light. The road shot is also cool!

[Hydnum]

There's always something to see, isn't there?
Very nice.

[frank44]

You have a nice collecting of photos there

---

Last edited by frank44; 11-01-2014 at 11:09 PM. Reason: bard spelling

[Kerrowdown]

Thanks for post this travelogue, always good to see another part of the world, especially when I've not been there myself.

[phoenixvision]

Thanks for doing the leg work to capture this remote piece of unique beauty....nothing wrong with jogging from shot to shotitll keep you in better shape then the coming generation of remote drone photographers are going to be in....

[flaviopetrone]

You are lucky to have a job which gives you great possibilities to see beautiful places. Compared to me, you're lucky to have a job!

Anyway, great pictures!

[Na Horuk]

Wow, this is a very interesting landscape, and you really captured it well! Thanks for sharing this series