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Soon after leaving Bea Bea rest area we started entering wildflower country. For the next few weeks we’d be travelling through a countryside literally bursting with colour.

Lavender Pathways

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 90 mm, 1/400 sec at f/8, ISO 800

Note: These photographs (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.

Auski Roadhouse is situated in pivotal location for travellers heading north. The Roadhouse lies at the junction of the Great Northern Highway, Wittenoom Meekatharra Road and Munjina Wittenoom Road and is the last fuel stop (in our case before Tom Price in many days time). It also lies on the edge of Karijini National Park.

Auski Roadhouse

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

We really are in red dirt country – and I mean REALLY red. I’m not exactly sure why they bothered with white tiles walls in the showers/toilets :).

Every now and then even some handheld shots through the windscreen whilst my father was driving worked :).

This is one of those times when Nikon’s new Auto-ISO capabilities really come in useful. When I was in the car I simply set my D750 to AutoISO with the minimum shutter speed set to four (4) times the focal length. My aim was to get a relatively sharp image from a moving platform.

Grand Ranges

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 58 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 360

We didn’t stay at this absolute gem of a location but just had a morning tea stop at Albert Tognolini Rest Area. It’s about 2km east of the Great Northern Highway in the area of Juna Downs with spectacular views of this gorge.

Albert Tognolini was the district roads engineer for northwest Western Australia in 1960s and retired as Commissioner in 1990 after almost 41 years with Main Roads of Western Australia.

Albert Tognolini View

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/30 sec at f/16, ISO 140

It was a beautiful spot with a fantastic high lookout view of this vista.

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 1/30 sec at f/16, ISO 140

Just time for a few handheld shots before driving on.

We were heading into Karijini National Park today… Ever since I first read we’d be coming here I was sooo looking forward to coming here. The stories of this epic photographic location were almost legendary.

These deep red exposed rock walls, slopes and plateaus covered in grass and spinifex and the ever present ghost gums. It’s exactly as I’d envisaged it might be and it was so close now I could almost taste it.

Red and Green

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/320 sec at f/8, ISO 720

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