how small we are

Uluru, Australia

How small we are. We were on a short nature walk with a tour group, making our way up the trail through the Olgas in the Australian National Park, Kata Tjuta, part of the Outback that includes Uluru/Ayers Rock and the central desert. I was deliberately tail-end Charley because I wanted photographs and didn’t care how far I got.

I was admiring the textured red rock set off against the blue sky and what little green vegetation there was, when I saw some of our group in a perfect position to make my point. These are huge natural formations. There is no way better to show it than with us humans looking miniscule by comparison. I turned and used the zoom to frame them in the bottom corner of the photograph and made it one of my “keepers.”

For more on how to use people to set off your photographs, see my book “The Accidental Photographer”.