These two images will end the current series on Uluru. They again show small details, stark in the early morning light. Only the first glimmerings give the subtle shades and golden hues  that a photographer seeks at dawn and dusk elsewhere. In Northern Territory the transition to stark and bold is very quick; but at least the photographer is spared the almost unmanageable contrast of the midday sun; not to mention the searing heat.

I love the first of these images for its many textures, bold curves and dark shadows.

The second has much simpler lines, yet still the same bold light. And then there is the shrub. In this harsh unforgiving landscape where it rains so seldom and so little this shrub is using the little water that persists, well for a little while, in the rock crack. Unlike its cousins that send deep  roots inton the desrt floor seeking for the aquifier this survives off the little water that Gaia sends and the crack retains. Life is extraordinarily tenacious and resourceful here, from shrubs, through to the aboriginals themselves. Life is amazing.