In late 2025, I documented Australia’s largest salt lake, the ephemeral Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, as it put on a spectacular pink blush – a phenomenon visible from space.
It is said to have filled only four times in 160 years, and this was its biggest flood in more than a decade. A vast inland sea stretching over 100km.
It was 47 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit) when I ventured into the remote outback and stayed at the isolated township of William Creek, home to one of the world’s most remote pubs.
The heat was oppressive, but the evaporation of the lake created ethereal and otherworldly colours and shapes, making for abstract frames.
As climate change increases the severity of extreme weather events, outback floods have the potential to become more erratic.
The lake is filling again in 2026 – a very rare consecutive year of flooding – and is shaping up to challenge the legendary flood of 1974 when it reached six metres deep.