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Uluru, Australia by ~aCreature:iconaCreature:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Landscapes

©2005-2009 ~aCreature
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I've spent a couple of days scanning slides, and have some nice shots from my time spent around Uluru and Kata Tjuta in Australia. This is the first of these. Uluru is the Anangu name for Ayer's Rock (apologies for missing diacriticals, by the way). You have to be very careful when photographing it as there are a lot of sacred sites that you can't include in your shot. I'm pretty sure I didn't get any in here.

If any of you have any doubt that the early hours of the morning are good for shooting landscapes, I hope this image will convince you otherwise. I haven't enhanced the colours to get it to look like this; something about the rock makes it light up when the light hits it at an angle (the film choice helps too). Wait until you see the pics of it glowing coming later...

Canon EOS 500, Fuji Velvia 100.

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~alvenom Nov 15, 2005, 6:10:15 PM
Really impressed with this, best photo i have seen from you! The warm tones of the rock contrast nicel yagainst the cold looking sky, the foreground doesn't capture your eye enough to distract from the rock. Well done!
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~aCreature Nov 15, 2005, 6:14:46 PM
Thanks muchly - I was well-pleased with this one, and did indeed think about making it my "featured deviation". We'll see, but it makes me want to do more landscape photography.
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~nicoleye Nov 15, 2005, 6:40:26 PM
Wow, this is a great shot :) I like how u capture the rock, the sky makes it look beautiful :)

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~alvenom Nov 15, 2005, 7:51:27 PM
I think it should be your featured deviation: you have moved on since that portait was taken, as good as it is.
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~ChrismonRow Nov 15, 2005, 9:29:42 PM
Nice shot :) Good dramatic lighting. How do you know which spots are sacred, or not, out of curiosity?

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~aCreature Nov 16, 2005, 5:18:09 AM
They're signposted when you get to them, which works fine mostly. You can also get a guide from the park rangers with a map that shows which areas are OK and which aren't.

I did have one problem where I stopped and took some pictures that I knew were going to be great - a feature of Uluru framed between a couple of trees. When I got closer I found that my "feature" was a sacred area, so I can't do anything with those images. According to the lovely people in the media office the best thing to do in that case is to destroy the negatives, but I'm not quite sure I can bring myself to do that quite yet.

You can get a copy of the guidelines from [link]
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~ChrismonRow Nov 16, 2005, 9:55:34 AM
Thanks! That's pretty interesting...I neverk knew there were so many rules, especially that photographing something violated their sacred areas.

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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
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~lugerman Nov 17, 2005, 2:14:06 AM
*looks at the sky* looks like someone forgot about ND grads? :)

But yes, i love this, definately one of your best.

Did this one survive the cut from the lab? Did they get something right? Do we give them a cookie?

*plays in photoshop*

You can tell i like an image when i play around in photoshop with it :)
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