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“As a writer, I had always thought language sufficient. So I am profoundly grateful that, in literally new territory, I was taught a new way to tell a story. And, even more importantly, introduced by the experience – and these photographers – to a special and very lovely world. My own”, Paul Cockburn, 4x4 Australia Magazine
“The Northern Territory is an essential place to visit because of the extremities of the landscape. Kings Canyon was a real highlight. I completely underestimated the diversity of the area and enormity of the natural and hidden treasures.”, Alex Coppel, Sunday Herald Sun
“The landscape is overwhelmingly harsh at times, it’s near impossible to believe that anything can survive. There were so many places where young, green shoots could be found making their way up through rocks too hot to touch. That, for me, encapsulated what the Territory is about. Life out there finds a way.”, Greg Barton, Australian Traveller Magazine
“This is my “backyard” - a vast, boundless land that has existed for millions of years and will exist for millions more. I have never felt closer to the environment or the untouchable force that created it.”, Julia Henry, InStyle Magazine
“I had imagined a rocky, lifeless place, with monochrome landscapes and dead red dust. What I found was a land of pulsing colour, with ethereal white tree trunks glowing against sapphire-blue skies and spiked green grasses nestled below terracotta cliffs.”, Gemma Pitcher, ninemsn
“The Red Centre is visually exciting – ancient craggy ranges, stunning waterholes found in the most unlikely places and a cultural history almost as old as the landscape itself. The grandeur and tranquillity of the landscape left me with a sense of wellbeing.”, Grenville Turner, Landscape Photographer
“There’s something special about extracting the inhabitants of crowded and polluted cities and placing them into a natural habitat thousands of kilometres away from their comfort zone. This group intimately absorbed the kaleidoscope of colour, the graphic shapes and patterns of the landscape.” , Steve Strike, Journey Guide
Red Centre Photographic Journey
With just one thing in common, six of Australia’s leading photographers leave the city lights behind them and head on a journey deep into the Red Centre.
Starting in Alice Springs and finishing at Uluru, they travel more than 1700 kilometres through the Red Centre, traversing dusty red roads, rocky creek beds and some of the best scenery the Territory has to offer. What they find is life, colour and diversity, and the grandeur and splendid isolation of the ancient landscape of the Red Centre.
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Get up close and personal with Australia’s infamous sandstone icon "Uluru". - Outback Photographer - Steve Strike
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Colours of the Desert
Steve Strike, photographer and local character, captures the colours of the outback.
Outback Story
Lindsay Carmichael welcomes travellers for a cold beer and a tall tale in his outback pub.
Camel Cup
It is nothing to see a camel sit down mid-race or veer off the track completely if the mood strikes it.
The Ghan
One of the most fabled great train journeys of the word, The Ghan is a front row seat to the moste spectacular landscapes.
Henley-on-Todd Regatta
A boat race in a cloud of dust. There is nothing like it. The sandy bed of the Todd River becomes the race track for a crew of Flintstone-style boats.
Desert Landscapes
Get a sense of the desert with historian Dick Kimber. He says it’s defined by a vastness of land and sky.
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
The Overland Telegraph line was one of the greatest engineering achievements of the nineteenth century.
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