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Located about 150kms south of Alice Springs, there are several pillars of sandstone rising above the desert sands. A harder top layer has resisted erosion by wind and rain. Chambers pillar was discovered in 1860 by John McDouall Stuart on his first attempt to cross Australia. It is named after one of his expedition's sponsors James Chambers. A special sight at sunrise. Castle Rock (this image) is close by and the two pillars are the main attractions in the small historical reserve.
The area has suffered from grass fires in the past and this burnt mulga tree stands in stark contrast to the coloured rock.

I have had a passing interest in photography for many years - mainly as a record of places I'd been to whilst bushwalking. In "my former life" as a University Professor teaching structural engineering in Australia and before that in Canada I started collecting 35mm slides of a technical nature (buildings, bridges, concrete, steel, timber etc.) that I could use in my teaching. In this role I was instrumental in the early 1990s to start collecting technical images of all aspects of structures and to start putting these images into a more pictorial "multimedia" orientated teaching environment. Much later, after retiring from Academia, I moved from 35mm slides to digital cameras. A great deal later (about 2010) I invested in a Nikon D80...