Australia, A Sense of Place, by photographer Nick Rains

Australia, A Sense of Place, by photographer Nick RainsThere is a profound power in the Australian landscape. Its stark beauty, vastness and unforgiving nature is both uplifting and, at the same time, humbling. There is no easier way to be reminded of one's own mortality than to gaze out over the seemingly endless salt plains of Lake Eyre. In that instance it is the distance to the horizon that reduces a human to a mere speck, but step into a pristine and primeval rainforest setting in North Queensland