Adam Monk Photo Tours & Images Gallery

This is the second image from my recent brief trip to Karijini National Park in the Pilbara Region of WA.  I have lots of new images from that region, but finding time to work on them it difficult at the moment it seems.  With running a gallery and organising Photographic tours to exotic locations my days seem to be full!

This image was shot pre-sunrise above Spa Pool in Hamersley Gorge with the borrowed Hasselblad H5D-50 and the Hasselblad HCD 28mm lens.

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My Photo tour to Bhutan just seems to get more popular each year, I had six places taken before I even started promoting it, and the last 4 before I could print the flyer!  If you are interested in going to Bhutan with me at some stage and you would like to get the early notification  please just send me an email and I will put you on the early warning list.   am@adammonk.com

I will be running another Photo Tour to Bhutan in 2016, and if I have time I may even run a second tour in October/November 2015.

My Photo Tour of Bhutan for 2015 has filled up really fast, as of today I only have one place remaining…  So if you have been sitting on the fence, sit no longer.  The Tour is strictly limited to 10 people, so once I reach that number that’s it for this year

You can read all the details of the tour and download the booking form right here>

Hamersley Gorge is one of the most beautiful gorges in an already phenomenal place, Karijini National Park.  When tourists come into the gallery and say to me, “I have 2 weeks here in Australia, where should I go?”  9 times out of 10 I say, go to Karijini, and don’t skip Hamersley Gorge!

Hamersley Gorge is outside the main part of the park, and requires a drive of a couple of hours to get to, but it is so very much worth it. I was back there again a few weeks ago and after many visits it still takes my breath away.  This is the first of the new images of Hamersley Gorge from the last trip, shot with the borrowed Hasselblad H5D-50 (While my Hasselblad was visiting relatives in Europe).  It’s actually the first time I have been to the park with a digital camera…  Such a relief to not be shooting with a 6 x17 camera any more, it’s such a painful format!

Eagle Rock Pool is a magic little waterhole not far outside Newman in the Central Pilbara Region of WA.  It’s a place I had heard talk of from locals for many years, so on my recent trip to the Pilbara I thought it was time to go and have a look.

Although I have current topographical maps, and even a GPS navigator, the track to Eagle Rock Pool seemed to have vanished.  I drove past the location where the GPS told me the turn off should be 3 times, before finally concluding that the track had actually gone…  Never one to give up easily I kept going up the road a few km til I came to a fire break that ran in approximately the right direction, and turned down that.  After a few km of bone jarring driving the fire break crossed an overgrown track, which my GPS navigator told me was the one I was looking for.  So off I went.

The track bumped along in the right direction nicely for miles and miles, until I was a couple of kilometres from my destination (according to the GPS), when suddenly the track ended in a huge windrow pushed up by a bulldozer, and a railway track… That wasn’t on the map either…  Lacking other options I followed the railway track , which was headed in more or less the right direction, until I ended up at the biggest iron ore mine processing and outloading facility I have ever seen!  That was a little intimidating I must say, lots of guys in reflective vests and hard hats looking strangely at me.

After lots of discussion over two way radios, and talk of being “escorted” off the facility, a friendly bloke in a ute (wearing a reflective vest and hard hat) turned up to do the “escorting”.  Apparently that’s the rule, that although I found my way onto the site, I wasn’t allowed to find my way back out…  In case I pinch some iron ore I guess, or a big monster machine squashes me…

When I mentioned Eagle Rock Pool to my escort, he said, “Sure, I can take you there”.  So off we went, all around this enormous scar on the landscape, all red and bleeding with no trees left.

Anyway, after another half hour of driving on mine-site tracks he led me to the other end of the track I had been following in the first place, the one that had been cut off by the mining operation and the railway, and left me there to make my own way.  I arrived finally just after sunset, about 2 hours after I thought I would get there.

The next morning I went for a walk with the Hasselblad H5D-50 that I had borrowed, as my H4D-60 was in for service (in Sweden I mean) and found the below image, which makes it all worth it really.