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On our way back out from Cathedral Gorge we visited and area called “The Domes”. The Domes walk is connected to the Cathedral Gorge Walk. It’s simply a detour via a couple of side tracks. It’s only a very short walk so it’s worthwhile to see more of the sandstone beehives and creek beds out here in the Bungles.

Standing in Awe

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

Even out here these crazy amazing anthills or termite mounds are a pretty amazing sight.

Anthills

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 82 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

As we were leaving The Domes walk there were some nice lowish rock domes that looked quite climbable. I “accidentally” found myself at the top of one of these :). Great view from the top of the domes so I could take this panorama of the area from up high.

I originally took 23 vertical frames handheld for a significantly more than 360˚ cover of the view. In the end I used less than all the frames for my final panorama – I preferred the slightly tighter cropped view. This still represents about a 270˚ view so what you see here is a very wide curved panorama encompassing the whole of the domes area. It also gives you a great sense of what these amazing sandstone beehives look like.

Pro Tip: One thing to note here is that I was simply too hot, tired and lazy to bother removing the circular polariser like I should have before taking the frames for this shot. With a panorama covering an area this wide I was bound to end up having extremely uneven polarisation across the sky. Even with the sun very high in the sky at midday this was still going to be a problem. In the end I got lucky with the darkened areas towards the far left and right of the crop I actually liked and the lighter highlight almost backlighting the darker beehive structures across the middle. I’d suggest don’t rely on luck tho – do it properly and remove the polariser before shooting :).

The Domes

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 100 x 15 Frames

After we’d made it back to the carpark and had a well earned lunch and refreshment it was time to head off to our next destination out here in Purnululu (Bungle Bungle) National Park.

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 48 mm, 1/100 sec at f/8, ISO 100

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