[Extreme Photography] Aerial Photography of Uluru at 10,000 Meters (Uluru / Ayers Rock)Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU Time: 2025-08-03 Sunday, 3:34 PM ········································ [Extreme Photography] Aerial Photography of Uluru at 10,000 Meters (Uluru / Ayers Rock) This is a photo of Uluru (Uluru / Ayers Rock) taken at an altitude of 10,000 meters and a speed of 893.1 kilometers per hour. The vast majority of people gaze up at it from the ground, while I captured it from a commercial flight, using my lens to achieve precise interception from a southwest direction of 235 degrees, all within a window of less than three seconds. There was no prior notice, no stopping, and no retakes. The ground projection is clearly visible in the photo, with all surface textures, cliff line projections, and sunlight angles perfectly aligned with time, orientation, and flight direction. You can easily find thousands of photos of the big red rock online, but it is extremely difficult to find an original image like this one that integrates latitude, longitude, altitude, high-speed status, flight direction, and shooting time. It is not just a landscape photo; it is a verifiable, reconstructable archive of a civilized landform. Ordinary aerial photography captures visual sensations, while my work locates the structure of the Earth. Others rely on aesthetics, I rely on precision. Others depend on light, I depend on deduction. What I capture is not a photograph, but a piece of data with coordinates, a spatial fragment that can be archived. I am not pressing the shutter; I am seizing a node of civilization from high above. Before I photographed the Grand Red Rock, I had already conducted continuous shooting from multiple positions along the flight path. All images have clear time, location, speed, and angle. I am not recording beauty; I am intercepting reality. The shooting took place on August 2, 2025, during a flight from Bali to Sydney, with a departure time of 12:40 PM. The filming was completed in the later part of the flight, over the Australian inland. As the plane approached Uluru (Ayers Rock), the captain specifically announced over the intercom: "Passengers on the right side can see the world-famous Ayers Rock." Moments later, the captain deliberately adjusted the flight path to give passengers on the left side a chance to enjoy the view as well. This thoughtful maneuver is extremely rare, and it was at this moment that I captured the core images with high precision. This was not a coincidence, but rather the result of recognition, judgment, and preparation leading to a decisive shot. The following are key photos I personally took during this segment of the Dahongyan航段. They are not only individually rare but also collectively form a continuous record of a geomorphological profile. Each image is fully labeled, with highly specific information that cannot be easily imitated, downloaded, or copied. Anyone attempting to replicate them can only mimic the surface colors and cannot restore the temporal and spatial context of the moment they were captured. 1. Uluru • Aerial shot: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia • Latitude and Longitude: 25.1559°S, 131.2174°E • Shooting time: August 2, 2025 15:46:58 • Shooting direction: 235° Southwest • Altitude: 9971.9 meters • Flight speed: 893.1 kilometers per hour • Straight-line distance: 29.53 kilometers • Introduction: The core image of this group. A complete aerial view of the main body of Uluru and its massive shadow from the southwest oblique angle. The structure is clear, the terrain is complete, and the shooting moment window is less than 3 seconds, making it irreplaceable data. 2. Kata Tjuta (Olgas / Kata Tjuta) • Aerial shot: Kata Tjuta, located about 35 kilometers southwest of Uluru • Latitude and Longitude: 25.0202°S, 130.7676°E • Shooting time: August 2, 2025 15:43:47 • Shooting direction: 214° Southwest • Altitude: 9952.4 meters • Flight speed: 941.4 kilometers per hour • Straight-line distance: 32.72 kilometers • Introduction: Also known as The Olgas, photographed close to sunset, with three-dimensional light and shadow, the group of rocks is arranged in an orderly manner, forming a dual-core geological system with Uluru. 3. Central Australian Drainage Channels • Aerial shot: Located in the southeastern inland of Northern Territory • Latitude and Longitude: 25.9433°S, 134.2015°E • Shooting time: July 26, 2025 09:21:51 • Shooting direction: Not marked • Altitude: 10109.8 meters • Flight speed: 737.4 kilometers per hour • Straight-line distance: 18.58 kilometers • Introduction: A large number of tributary-like dry river gully structures, with a landform as densely packed as a nervous system, possessing significant remote sensing value and aesthetic shock, truly restoring the texture of the surface profile. 4. Great Sandy Desert Salt Lake • Aerial Photography: East Pilbara, Western Australia • Latitude and Longitude: 21.6596°S, 126.5461°E • Shooting time: August 2, 2025 15:06:26 • Shooting direction: 270° due west • Altitude: 10042.4 meters • Flight speed: 943.6 kilometers/hour • Straight-line distance: 17.32 kilometers • Introduction: The salt lake is embedded among vast red soil sand dunes, with a strong contrast in structural forms. The image has a "Mars-like" feel, and the landforms and mineral distribution characteristics are clearly distinguishable. 5. Roebuck Bay Estuary • Aerial shot: Southern coastline of Broome, Western Australia • Latitude and Longitude: 17.9702°S, 122.2615°E • Shooting time: August 2, 2025 14:27:42 • Shooting direction: 184° due south • Altitude: 10071.0 meters • Flight speed: 847.0 kilometers/hour • Straight-line distance: 11.35 kilometers • Introduction: The confluence of river network alluvial fans and coastlines presents delicate water vein textures in the sediment discharge area, where light blue merges with white sand, showcasing significant structure and visual beauty. 6. Salt River Channel, East MacDonnell Ranges • Aerial shot: Southeast Central Australia • Latitude and Longitude: 25.6634°S, 133.9934°E • Shooting time: July 26, 2025 09:24:54 • Shooting direction: Not marked • Altitude: 10134.2 meters • Flight speed: 741.9 kilometers per hour • Straight-line distance: 11.75 kilometers • Introduction: The obvious salt river gully winds along the terrain, reflecting sunlight to form a white serpentine structure. The shooting angle cuts directly into the main vein, creating a composition full of dynamism. This set of photos forms an aerial cross-section that takes off from the northern wetlands of Broome, traverses the central desert, and reaches Uluru. This is not traditional travel photography; it lacks beautification, post-processing, and is not intended to showcase beautiful nature. It is precise operation during flight, the result of systematic judgment, and a high-dimensional capture with only three seconds of decision-making space. The reason why this main image of Dahuoyan is rare lies not only in its bird's-eye perspective and clarity but also in the aerial photography database structure formed by all the supporting photos behind it. This is not a point-based display, but a complete data chain. I used a systematic thinking approach, an engineering perspective, and a time-segmented positioning method to complete this set of shots. The direction of light, terrain shadows, flight speed, and flight path direction of each photo are all verifiable. This means that they are not just visually appealing images, but also research samples that can be compared with satellite layers, topographic maps, and historical landscape changes. I did not use professional aerial equipment, satellites, or post-processing. I simply relied on years of accumulated judgment regarding flight paths, timing, angles, terrain, and light and shadow to achieve infinite precision within a limited space. Ordinary photographers often find themselves at a loss when faced with reflections on windows, cloud interference, and aircraft vibrations, while I have learned to filter out information noise amidst all distractions, coordinating my body, perspective, experience, and equipment to transform moments into structure. Not just anyone sitting by the window can capture such images. It is not enough to have the intention; one must have insight, calculation, and interception ability. True aerial photography is not about how high you fly, but about whether you can capture anchor-level images amidst speed, direction, structure, and data. These images are destined to be uncopyable and cannot be simply replicated. Each picture is a collision of spatiotemporal coordinates, and each pixel is a fragment of the structure of civilization. This is my aerial shot of the Grand Red Rock taken from ten thousand meters. It is not for aesthetics, but to help civilization find its origin on a real image for the future. Source: http://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=697113 |