An ornamental Japanese kimono hanging as a wall display. low angle view

An ornamental Japanese kimono hanging as a wall display. low angle viewAn ornamental Japanese kimono hanging as a wall display. Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia

A woman with a baby and child crosses a dry lake bed in drought

A southern elephant seal playfully splashes through the shallows

Racing camels launch from the start gate and stampede down a sand race track

A flaming sunset settles over the desert near the Murchison River

White Mountains National Park

A close view of the skin and scales of a scrub python

A desert succulent emerges from rippled sands on a windswept dune

At 1050 metres a rhododendron clings to the cliff face at Worlds End

Close view detail of the hat band on a dirty cowboy hat

North-Eastern South Australia

A Purple Swamphen moving through grasses near a wetland before dawn

Rows of Lavender flowers await harvest from Tasmania's rich soils