WE'RE CAPTURING BEAUTY IN THE BUSH

A collective of rural photographers are celebrating the ups and downs of life on the land

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Fighting fires in the middle of the night and battling through an old barbed wire fence armed with her camera is all in a day's work for spirited stockwoman Kate Nelder.

While it's not often easy, the mother-of-one has long used her passion for photography to capture the beauty in what is often a desperate situation on her cattle station about 100km south of Mataranka in the Northern Territory.

"We get quite bad bush