This is a scene I would imagine an artist would paint.
There’s wonderful colours, chaotic patterns and motion. Very busy but a scene where ones eye can wander to find interesting details.

This photograph has similar features but the main attraction is the afternoon sun and the incoming tide combining to bring the rocks in the foreground to life.

The location is unimportant. It could be anywhere really.

Another one of the pictures taken over the Painted Hills on Anna Creek Station near Coober Pedy. With just two quick passes over the formation and failing light, I was lucky to get this small number of images that showed off the amazing colours.

I am sure better conditions and a little more time would bring even better results.

The Port Elliot Bowling Club.

The jagged rock face of the gorge.

A close up of the patterns formed by distortion of the earth’s surface, set in stone for all to see.

Rock crevices with hardly any soil – yet hardy trees and shrubs somehow manage to survive.

Again, a close up of the rock formations from the previous picture.

The event was held in Marree in far north South Australia.

Marree is the beginning of both the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks, so it was ideal location for the event which lets station people compete in what is an every day part of running a cattle station.

And the winners were……..