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Photography - Places: Australia

Continent of Contrast

SOLITUDEA couple strolls along a tidal channel on Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland.
   
LOVE OF SPORTAt the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australian Rules Football fans spend an afternoon taking in a match between the West Coast Eagles and the Hawthorne Hawks.
   
ODD ROCKSRising over 1,400 feet from the surrounding plain, Kata Tjuta, or "many heads," has been held sacred by the Pitjantjatjara aboriginal people for ages. Situated near the more famous Uluru in the center of the continent, these striking formations are composed of conglomerate rock.
     
  
SACRED PLACEA United Nations World Heritage Area, Liffey Falls was a meeting spot for three Aboriginal tribes. The enormous ferns and mushroom shaped rocks give a prehistoric feeling to this ancient gathering place deep in the rain forest of north central Tasmania.
   
OUTBACK LIVINGCamel herder Philip Gee and his kids head home in William Creek, South Australia. In remote places of the Outback children are educated by the School of the Air in which the teacher broadcasts lessons by two-way radio to students scattered hundreds of miles apart.
   
RARE BEAUTYAn endangered yellow footed rock wallaby surveys a watering hole before heading down to drink in the Flinders Ranges. Hunted to near extinction for its colorful coat and competition for food from non-native rabbits nearly meant the demise of this marsupial, but conservation measures and a hunting ban have helped to ensure the species survival.
     
  
DUSTY PATHFollowing an ancient Aboriginal trade route, the Oodnadatta Track cuts through the dry and desolate Outback of South Australia.