Max Rittner, Tjoritja kwatye (LANDSCAPE 2025)

This is Birthday Waterhole, a semi-permanent body of water in the upper catchment of the Hugh River, in the Northern Territory West MacDonnell Ranges; known as Tjoritja in Arrernte; their word for water is kwatye. I captured this image mid-morning on one of the cooler days of a hotter than usual summer.

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