A couple of weeks ago I jumped in a car on a balmy Melbourne Tuesday morning and arrived at Ayres Rock a couple of hours later (give or take a few). The drive isn’t the nicest of things to do, but it allowed me to see the big rock in our red centre. I hadn’t ventured to central Australia before, so the landscape was breathtaking for me. The dirt is so amazingly red, and the colours at sunset and sunrise are fantastic.
The trip to Central Australia was actually for a film crew named Conflict Films as we were shooting the Finke Desert Race in and around Alice Springs. We needed a timelapse at the rock, so the four hour detour from the main highway wasn’t an issue to get 5secs of footage. The race weekend was a great success and you can see the episode on ONE HD this Friday night @ 7pm. I’ve seen the episode after a sneaky beer with Tony Butler of Conflict Films, and his production work is just getting better and better. The quality of footage coming out of his numerous Sony cams is nothing short of brilliant. You’ll see a bit of my handy work in the episode as well 
As for the stills side of things from my red centre trip – I snuck a few shots in during the trip… actually, a bit more than a few. Couldn’t help myself really.
Director, Tony Butler – quite excited to be in the NT.
Stock standard position for a few hours…
Close…
A thing of beauty.
The colours are amazing.
Sunrise timelapse gave me some creative time.
For now, that’s it from me. I have a couple of easy weeks (by easy I mean I’m around Melbourne!) before it all gets insanely busy again.
A few new things to post soon, so keep an eye out!
Dan.
