Devil's Marbles Northern Australia (1)

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

For those who have never visited this place, it is about an hour's drive south of Tennant Creek. In an area of relatively flat and uninteresting country, one suddenly comes across these stones ... about 1km x 300metres, just sitting there quietly. Three-quarters of the area is signed 'no entry unless authorised' and there are heaps of signs asking for no photography. However, it does leave a sufficiently large area for me and others to 'explore' with the camera

I've been here a number of times over the years and this visit arriving 1/2-hour before sunset and trying for the golden light of late afternoon.

1)-

exif- Panny FZ-2500; 1/160s x F4,5; ISO-125; lens at 10x zoom / 240mm FFequiv ... plus CPL filter

2)-

Panny FZ-2500; 1/200s x F4,5; ISO-125; lens at 9x zoom / 220mm FFequiv ... plus CPL filter

3)-

Panny FZ-2500; 1/200s x F4,0; ISO-125; lens at 3x zoom / 70mm FFequiv ... plus CPL filter

As always, feedback welcome
Phil

[Isac]

Very interesting place Phil. Colours are great and the contrast with the sky is brilliant. I'm puzzled by the "No Photography" request, do you think photographing them may affect them in some way? Are these on private property?

[wigz]

The 'No photography' is probably because the area is sacred to indigenous people. You have similar restrictions to parts of Uluru. I don't know about the 'no entry' but it could be for the same reason.

[Isac]

Not the forum for me to put forward my thoughts on those particular issues.

[wigz]

Wonderful shapes, textures and contrasting colours Phil.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Hi Isac

There are many areas across Oz where visitors / tourists are asked to 'not' take photos ... and this is not exclusive to indigenous areas
Equally I have seen deliberate vandalism of indigenous art by teenagers (they were filmed doing it) where their spray-paint was over a 2-dozen or more art-works regarded as significant by the locals. Also- we have seen TV news items over the years of graffiti being sprayed on the walls of churches and other places of worship, so vandalism is not confined to indigenous people

During the years that I was doing wedding photog stuff there were times when the priest -or whomever in charge- said to me 'please do not feature (that item) into your photos ... and while it was just a 'thing' to me, it obviously held some significance to them and they did not want it photographed.

So it happens everywhere to some degree
Phil

[Isac]

Thanks Phil. I get utterly confused and sometimes disgusted by all this race stuff. We are all humans on the same planet. It would be great if we could all just get on. I can assure you, my opinion on these matters would probably not be welcome here, so I'll leave it at that. Cheers mate.