It’s locations such as this water-filled grotto, left – which is a short scramble upstream from the main pool in Karijini National Park’s Hamersley Gorge – that attract photographers from all over.

Oxers Lookout, in Karijini National Park overlooks the site where four of the area’s most significant gorges – Weano, Red, Hancock and Joffre – meet. It was named after one of the region’s first doctors.

The Milky Way soars over a gum near Karijini Eco resort.

A Sturt’s desert pea (Swainsona formosa) in the far west of the Pilbara on the Burrup Peninsula in Murujuga National Park. 

Local guide Pete West leads a group of intrepid explorers on a “journey to the centre of the earth” in Karijini National Park in the heart of the Pilbara. 

Folds of rock in Hamersley Gorge, Karijini National Park. 

Typical rocky outcrops surrounded by spinifex of the Burrup Peninsula. 

Corellas sip water from a slow leak from a water tank at the Karijini Ranger Station. 

Handrail Pool in Weano Gorge, Kirijini National Park. The tiny figure of Australian Gepgraphic writer Karen McGhee enters from a slot above a tiny waterfall to the right. 

The Tasmanian tiger etched in this stone has been extinct across Australia’s mainland for millennia. It’s found on the islands of Murujuga Sea Country in the Dampier Archipelago. 

Burrup Peninsula landscape lit up by the flare from the Pluto gas refinery.

A dignified gum tree standing near Dales Gorge in Karijini National Park. 

The reflections of Kirijini National Park’s glassy Fern Pool. 

The narrow entrance to Weano Gorge in Karijini National Park. 

A tenacious gum carving out a life in Joffre Gorge, Karijini National Park.