Landscape photography outback travel: The Australian outback is not merely a collection of isolated destinations but an area to journey through to experience the physicality, spirituality, and essence of the ancient landforms and its rivers. Like landscape photography, the journey is not only a physical one, but a journey into oneself as well. There is no doubting that the Australian outback is the location of some awe-inspiring destinations and landscape photography, but it is due to their isolation that, to a great extent, they are made even more wondrous. The experience of the traveller to reach these iconic places is what makes them even more remarkable.

Being in the outback is an incredible experience and getting there is, at times, even better as there is the anticipation of the journey as one travels from the coast through the wonderful changing Australian landscape. From the city, over the mountains, through the rolling hills, across the rich agricultural plains and before you know it, the flora is sparse, and the hue of the landscape will change to a red/orange hue. It is then that one can consider that they are in the outback. From the east coast cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne it is about a days drive. But what a drive,,, through the wonderful diversity of this country; providing unique and endless opportunities for the photographer.

The great thing about the Outback is that it is fact 'Out Back'. What it is 'out back' from no one can really define is up to conjecture as; is where it actually begins. Many areas of Australia claim to be the outback and they may only be a short distance from the coast. When one is in the outback there is never any doubt, but the actual point at which one gets to the outback is harder to define. There is no actual demarcation line that denotes Outback from non-outback. And it does not really matter as it can sometimes also be a state of mind.

The magnificent and iconic Darling River is one of the best examples of what Dorothy Mackellar was alluding to in her famous poem 'My Country', " I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains".

The river meanders through Outback NSW from its origins in Queensland's Darling Downs - via the Warrego and Culgoa Rivers - and from the northern NSW tributaries of Barwon, Gwydir, Namoi, Castlereagh and Bogan rivers.

The best way to experience the river is to travel the Darling River Run from Lightning Ridge and Bourke down to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth.