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From the ground, the Australian drought resembles a featureless brown dustbowl, but from the air it turns into an art of color and texture as the earth cracks under a blazing sun.
In Aboriginal paintings that tell an ancient mythology, hungry animals queuing for food resemble an abstract painting and their black shadows extending across the country are a surrealistic image.
A road can be seen next to trails leading to a water tank located in a drought-affected pen on the property of farmer Ash Whitney to the west of the city of Gunnedah.
The worst drought in living memory is that of vast areas of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling and many questioning about the future.
Tom Wollaston, cattle farmer, born 70 years ago in the same house feared that this drought will mean for his children, who are aiming to take back the property of 2,300 hectares (5,683 acres) when Tom "hangs up her boots".
An old Sydney tramway is in a drought pen on the Jimmie and May McKeown property on the outskirts of the town of Walgett.
May McKeown, 79, and her son Jimmie live on a property near Walgett, in northwestern New South Wales. They worry about the lack of rain since 2010.
"My great-grandfather this land in 1901, and he's never had to take cattle off the paddocks out there She said, pointing to the west. "But we had to remove them all and bring them closer to the property so that we could feed them more easily."
