Outback Landscape Images
Filled with a landscape of great beauty, the Australian Outback provides the landscape photographer with endless opportunities to capture the beauty of the land, its people, rivers and National Parks. Dissecting the Outback NSW region is the iconic Darling River which is fed by several tributaries originating from southeast Queensland and the Darling Downs.
Lightning Ridge is a classic outback town that should be on everyone’s list of places to see in Australia. Home of the Black Opal, the 'Ridge' will welcome you with classic country hospitality. They are a unique bunch of characters who pride themselves on wonderful and heartfelt eccentricity; it is something about the pioneering spirit and is refreshing change in these days of political correctness and conformity.
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Bourke, an iconic outback town set beautifully on the banks of the Darling River, has been immortalised in much Australian folklore. Henry Lawson put it when he wrote,” if you know Bourke, you know Australia”. A town steeped in pastoral and indigenous history, Bourke is known as the Gateway to the Outback is not only at the cross-roads of the Kidman Way and the Kamilaroi Highway but also the site of another great transport route, The Darling River.
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Outback photography sheds machinery: Few photographers will argue that photographing old farm machinery and shearing sheds is boring. And the older they are the better they are as subject matter.
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Landscape photography Mutawintji Gundabooka: Located in
outback NSW, Mutawintji NP (near
Broken Hill) and Gundabooka NP (near
Bourke and the
Darling River) - Mutawintji is one of the most moving and culturally significant areas of NSW that has to be put on a visitors list. With its wonderful sandstone ridges and gorges it is a site to behold and is one of those places that you can feel the cultural significance of the area and the land.
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There are many rivers in Australia but none that are as iconic as the Murray River and the Darling River. Steeped in indigenous history and culture, they have been the centre of many aboriginal groups for 1,000's of years. It is there history and their existence. When European explorers came looking for the fabled inland sea, it was along these two waterways they travelled.
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Landscape photography outback travel: The Australian outback is not merely a collection of isolated destinations but an area to journey through to experience the physicality, spirituality, and essence of the ancient landforms and its rivers. Like landscape photography, the journey is not only a physical one, but a journey into oneself as well.
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Landscape photography panoramas - Australian landscape photography has always been about the wide open spaces of this wonderful country. While much landscape photography is taken with a relatively even aspect ratio (height to width) the expansive vistas of the outback are often best captured with panoramic photography.
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Perry Sandhills, located about 10kms from Wentworth, are a remarkable sight; especially at dawn and dusk when the low sun illuminates the dunes revealing amazing colours, textures, and shadows; well suited to landscape photography and those venturing out are rarely disappointed.
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Cameron Corner Landscape photography: The surveyed north-west corner of
Outback NSW, Cameron Corner, is the point at which the states of NSW, Queensland and South Australia meet and it is this corner that forms the north-west boundary of Sturt National Park - one of the largest National Parks in NSW at 340,000 ha. In the north-west corner of NSW is The Corner Country which covers Sturt National Park and the towns of Tibooburra, Milparinka and Cameron Corner.
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Broken Hill: Outback Australia is known for its remarkable colours, hues, tones and textures. The blues and reds of Broken Hill complement each other beautifully in this landscape. Broken Hill, also know as the Silver City, is the jewel of Outback NSW and is one destination that should be put on any travellers' list of places to see in Australia. Not only a beautiful town with its wonderful architecture, but it is also provides the perfect base for exploring some of the best Outback NSW including the Darling River Run and the Corner Country.
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Darling River, just its name conjures up the outback spirit, indigenous culture, pastoral history and a place that nurtures the soul. For the photographer, it stirs the creative spirit with its ethereal energies, beautiful colours and textures. It is a timeless place.
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Trilby Station, 20km downstream from
Louth, is a 5th generation working sheep station steeped in pastoral history. Set on the banks of the majestic Darling River, Trilby Station has its origins as part of Dunlop Station the site of the first mechanised shearing shed in Australia in the 1880's; a controversial implimentation made possible by the Wolseley shearing machines.
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Silverton photography: There is a very special magic about Silverton; it has less than 50 people living there, was the site of an 1800's failed mining boom, is a drawcard for artists and it is the location for many Australian movies. All that and only 15 minutes from Broken Hill and about 1 hour from the Darling River and the Darling River Run.
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The innate quality of those who travel the Outback is to see the iconic destinations that are ingrained in the Australian psyche and Sturt National Park is one of those Outback destinations. This massive park which spans the sandy dunes of the Strzelecki Desert across the ancient mesas of the Grey Range and Mt King (The Jump-Ups) and to the Gibber plains, gorges and hills of Mount Wood.
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Lake Mungo is a truly remarkable place and is one of best places to see in Australia. In theory, Lake Mungo is little more than the remnants of an ancient lake, completely dry with ancient sand dunes running for over 20km along the eastern bank. In reality, it is one of the most important anthological sites in the world with its international significance recognised with World Heritage listing.
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