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The light of the Northern Territory has a purity and vitality that photographs only begin to capture. For tens of thousands of years, this vast desert has been home to Australia's indigenous Aboriginal people. Ayers Rock, known locally as Uluru, is a great symbol in Aboriginal traditions, as are many sacred sites among the mountain ranges, gorges, dry riverbeds, and spinifex plains of the region that's also known as the Red Center. But this magnificent stone monolith rising from the plains is but one focus in the Northern Territory. The rounded forms of the Olgas, also known as Kata Tjuta, are another. Watarrka National Park and Kings Canyon, Mt. Conner, and the cliffs, gorges, and mountain chains of the MacDonnell Ranges are other worlds to explore.