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Well, I'm back from Kata Tjuta national park and all I can say is....what a huge bloody rock!

Man it was unreal, there is no way you can judge the scale until you are right next to the thing. Anyway, here are a few shots, and would appreciate C&C as to how they have turned out. I tried to go for something different but couldn't stop myself getting the postcard pictures!!!

Matt,
I am no guru, but I really like your pictures. After all we hear about the number of tourists on the spot, was it hard to get nobody in the frame?

Matt

Excellent as always. I like all of these bar #4 which is just way too dark for me to see any detail (then again, maybe you were going for a silhouette - if so it fails for me ) My favourite by a long shot is the last one since it's such a different and interesting take on Uluru. I also love the way you've done the colours - there's a certain odd look to them that works fantastically well for these images.

Like them all, but love the last one. Great sense of scale, and fantastic colour contrast between the sky and the rock. Nicely done.

macka

You gotta love the rock. Its an amazing place and lie you said, you cannot judge the size until you are there in person.

#2 and #4 work best for me. In #2 I like the shadow cast, and in #4 you can see how huge the rock is when there is a little ant trying to climb it.

Did you go anywhwere else in the region?

Gotta love those colours! Damn this technology is good! I'd like to see that sexy dark blue sky pasted into a brighter pic of the rock. Glad to hear you had an enjoyable holiday.

I love the second shot of Ayers Rock. nicely done!

cheers

1, 2 and 5 are stunning, brillant colour and clarity.

#5 is especially good - wonderful composition

Great shots Matt. I like #1, 2 and 5. Lovely vibrant colours. I believe all Australians should visit the Centre and in particular Uluru and Kata Tjuta (Olgas) down the road.
cheers
marco

It doesn't seem to matter how many times I see it ...
there is something really spiritual to me about Uluru.
I haven't yet been there myself, but fantastic images like this make me want to go tomorrow.
Well done Matt.

Blimey! That first pic is a stunner. Just the composition of it is totally different from all the other "postcard" pics you see of Uluru! Great stuff as usual Matt.

Nice to see some natural looking photos from you Matt... This would've been one subject that wouldn't have suited the desat look that you've been experimenting with recently...

I hope that you enjoyed the spiritual experience that is Uluru!!!

Great pictures Matt... impressive colours...

What always amazes me is.. Coolum Mountain here on the sunshine coast is Australia's 2nd largest monolith.. (rock) to Ayres Rock/Ularu but it never gets the full potential like the red rock does... maybe most people dont know that.. or im completely wrong.. correct me if iam

Tim

Hope you had a great time Matt, I really like the first and last shots, and the only one that really does nothing for me is #4

Like Stubbsy I really like the last shot as it shows Uluru very differently to your usual touristy idea of it.

1 & 2 for me I love postcard shots.....

the polariser or grad filter worked particularly well I thought (please don't tell me you didn't use one....... )

Tony

Matt
Really nice images...you've done very well. Did it happen to rain whilst you were there ?

When my Wife & I were there a few years back, we had a "4 seasons in one day" day. The little waterfalls that come to life when it rains, really make for interesting photos.

One thing I was constantly amazed about with the rock was the ever changing colours (especially during sunset and sunrise).

Most certainly a worthy and "must-see" place for every Australian photographer.... PS...thanks for rekindling fond memories

Matt, love those shots mate. The contrast is amazing! Much PPing or just good use of available light and CPL?

Great shots, makes me want to travel there now!

Many thanks everyone - i had such a good time taking them.
All shots were taken using a CPL and there was a bit of PP levels adjustment.

Looking at them on my laptop screen, I don't like the sunset ones at all. On my desktop the foreground has been blacked out causing a silhouette - which was the intention, so I'm disappointed with them. There is way too much foreground detail.

I feel that they are a little "too" postcard like though - landscape isn't my favourite discipline and I ended up taking the same shots that everyone else at the lookouts were taking.

As to the fact that there are no people in the shots, it was pretty much empty because we reversed the tourist route - Olgas in the morning, and rock in the afternoon.

Once again, thank you everyone.

Fantastic Matt. Number 1 is the pick for me. I can't wait to get back out there. Awesome country.

excelenrt work matt colour saturation vivid and a different perspective
was this a holiday or are you there for business?

best

Wendell

Great photos,

I went there 20 years ago on a bus trip.
The bus stopped about 40 kilometers away and we got out and had a look
I had never seen someting like this rock from this distance so far away
I later went onto a flight over Uluru and the Olgas, the colour slides still exist somewhere.
A similar thing happened to me when I first caught a glimpse of Mount Fuji in Japan
The distance from the mountain when we first got to see it revealed a 40 km base
of a 4000 m high volcano.
This is amazing stuff

Cheers,
CD

1 is fabo, 2 is also...other than the shadow which i find distracting

Hooley dooley, I love the light in #2!!! The shadows rolling over, the lone tree on the left, stunning color sat... Ya gotta print and frame that!

I'd love to spend a few days there, unusual and majestic landforms like that make fantastic subjects...

I really love you composition in #1 not you usual "postcard" angle

Cheers
Rod

Matt,

Really like shots 1 and 2, with 2 my fave. Very moody and great colours.

Cheers

Michael