Richard Green's chopper at Tent Pole. Picture: Richard Green.
PHOTOGRAPHER and helicopter pilot tracks down some of the most beautiful secret locations in Australia. Access is strictly by air. Even then, it's hard work.
Richard Green was once Europe's leading expert in computer graphics and he "made a motza" when he sold his company Online Conferences Ltd. on the UK stock exchange.
So what did he do? He learnt how to fly a helicopter, then moved to Australia and decided to explore the bush.
"Crocodile Dundee was the clincher. I thought, that's for me, that's where I want to go," Mr Green said.
Together with his wife Caroline, he has spent the last 20 years finding Australia's most remote and secret locations -and photographing them. These locations are so remote, few would have ever been there.
The results of his work are simply stunning.
"None of these places have names. The nearest track where a 4WD could go would be 30km away. The nearest road would be a couple of hundred kilometres away. If you tried to walk, it would be a long way over very rough country."
Raging waters in Arnhem Land NT. Picture: Richard Green Source: No Source
One of the couple's favourite spots is Tent Pole - they named it that because Mr Green left a tent pole there and managed to find it in the same spot 13 years later.
"There are beautiful tall sandstone orange pillars and it's quiet, except for the birds and the insects," Mr Green said.
Camping in remote locations is not without its hazards. For that reason the Greens have refitted their private helicopter, removing five passenger seats and adding an extra fuel tank and freezer. The couple has enough supplies to survive for three weeks in the bush should an emergency occur. Mr Green has also trained as an engineer so he can fix the chopper should it break in the middle of the outback.
There's one thing, however, that Mr Green sometimes struggles to control - insects.
"About two years ago we were camping at a place called Mermaid Island, I bought a new tent that had a mesh small enough to keep the mosquitoes out but not the sandflies. I woke up in the morning and my flesh was completely bitten."
Richard Green has been to places in Australia that few would ever see. Most of them don't even have names. Picture: Richard Green Source: No Source
Mr Green has compiled many of his photographs into a book. When he approached publishers with the idea they told him it was "not commercially viable". Turns out they were wrong. Mr Green published and promoted the book himself and he has already made his money back.
An exhibition of Mr Green's amazing photographs opens at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba in NSW, at 2pm on Saturday, March 23.
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