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With the sun now risen it was time for a few more downward facing images

Flow

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/30 sec at f/2.8, ISO 160

Then it was time to land and pack up before heading back to the campground for breakfast

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

Shadow Trail

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/30 sec at f/4, ISO 100

Look carefully (play where’s Rodney) and you’ll find me down below next to the trail

Flying even further out so that I was well past the end of this long ridge. Allowing me to look back from the point with the Kennedy Range spreading out into the distance on both sides

Kennedy Burn

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/160 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100 x 21 Frames

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The sun is about to rise (behind me) in the next couple of minutes – one last chance for a 180˚ panorama before it comes up

The Kennedy Range is an eroded plateau located on the rim of the Gascoyne River catchment about 160km from the coast. The range experiences a desert climate

Around 250 million years ago, the Gascoyne region was a shallow ocean basin off the edge of the ancient Australian continent. It filled with sediment, which later became compressed to form layers of sandstone and shale. Movements in the Earth’s crust brought these above sea level where erosion has stripped away much of the rock

Kennedy

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/120 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100 x 21 Frames

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The Kennedy Range is a remnant of the land surface that elsewhere has been worn away but here forms a mesa some 75km long and up to 25km wide, oriented north to south

The southern and eastern sides of the range have eroded to form spectacular cliffs that rise 100m above the Lyons River Valley plain. These are dissected by a maze of steep-sided canyons, which have short-lived streams after rain

These west facing ranges make for some spectacular views at sunrise. The campground is also nestled right at the base of the range. This gives very easy access to the spectacular scenery

Another early morning rise to fly the drone in these fantastic ranges. This morning I walked from the campground along the base trails towards Drapers Gorge

Tracks

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/30 sec at f/2.8, ISO 400

I’d take off and fly around towards Drapers (away from the campground), so as to not chance waking the few neighbours we had. The Mavic 2 Pro is very quiet anyway, but hey… 🙂

It was before sunrise again (for the best softer light). These shots were just after 6:20AM

No amazing clouds this morning but we still have the nice soft pastel skies before the sun kicks above the horizon behind me

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Drapers Gorge

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/80 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100 x 21 Frames

That ridge of land right in front of us in the middle with the road into Drapers gorge to the left of it is the escarpment we’d climbed yesterday morning

You can also see the Temple Gorge Campground way over on the right

This is a five (5) frame vertical panorama I took here in Honeycomb gorge

Honeycomb Gorge

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S @ 24 mm, 1/20 sec at f/8, ISO 64 x 5 Frames

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Wormed

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S @ 36 mm, 1/40 sec at f/8, ISO 280