--- title: "Simon Bayliss | Photographer & Outback Travel Writer" description: "Professional photographer and travel writer. 20+ years covering outback Australia, Scandinavia and Europe for Fairfax, NRMA, Outback Magazine and more." url: "https://reddustsnow.com.au/about" date: "2026-07-09T12:48:50+00:00" language: "en-AU" --- # About About · Red Dust Snow## Red Dust Snow — Simon Bayliss Professional Photographer I am Simon Bayliss, a professional photographer with more than twenty years behind the lens. Red Dust Snow is the name for my life's work — travel, touring and editorial photography spanning the diversity of eastern Australia and the north of Scandinavia, from the red dust of the outback to the snow of Sweden. ![Simon Bayliss, professional photographer and founder of Red Dust Snow](https://reddustsnow.com.au/images/graphics/simon-bayliss.jpg)Simon Bayliss — photographer and founder of Red Dust Snow. ## The Journey About twenty years ago, I went on a wanderlust journey across Europe with two distinct purposes. Firstly, it was a childhood dream to ride a motorcycle across Europe, and secondly, to recapture the passion I had for photography. I bought a Triumph motorcycle in Athens, Greece, as well as a state-of-the-art digital camera, and began a journey that lasted 18 months and covered nine countries. While the camera and motorcycle are long gone (sadly for the latter), it was the catalyst for a creative pursuit that is as strong as the day I departed Athens with my life in the panniers of that remarkable Triumph Adventurer. Since then, I have pursued most genres of photography. An early mentor taught me that while fashion, wedding, product, lifestyle, travel, portrait, and news photography are all very different, what you learn in each will make you a better photographer. For the last twenty years, I have followed that advice. ## Red Dust, and Snow My travel and touring photography has taken me across the Darling River and up into Cameron Corner, both many times. As a result, I share my touring routes — the Darling River Run, Sturt’s Touring Route, and the Watershed Loop™, to name a few. Also a place close to my heart, the Barmah-Millewa Forest and the Timber Cutters Run™. The journey has also taken me across Scandinavia, with Sweden being the birthplace of my partner, Elenor, and a place I have grown to love after living there for eighteen months. A few years ago, while travelling the outback, I was thinking of a name that sums up everything I have done across the diversity of eastern Australia and that of northern Scandinavia — and Red Dust Snow seemed like a perfect fit. My love for snow, and things sub-zero, is connected to Sweden — Sverige — a place I fell in love with, and where we have lived and photographed extensively. ## How It Began Even from a young age, I have always felt the power of the captured image and the shared experience. Memories of pouring over what seemed to be a vast catalogue of documentary books in the home are still vivid. My passion for the Australian bush started young, with time spent on a family farm just north of Echuca, in what is now known as the Barmah-Millewa Forest at Mathoura. But it would take a decade of working in the agri-business sector — after studying Agricultural Marketing at the University of Queensland — before my love of the bush joined my other passion, photography. These two passions only crossed paths while fulfilling a life’s dream of motorcycling across Europe. The epiphany happened, and the way was set. Returning to Australia after riding most of Europe, the re-ignited passion was the catalyst of a career change, and all energies were directed to the shared experience of travel and touring — by any means. ## Tourism Commissions In addition to paid positions with Australia’s leading lifestyle media publishers, I was fortunate to be offered various photographic and copywriting commissions for local, regional and state tourism authorities. One was the Darling River Run project, involving touring routes across Outback NSW — a project that has since grown to include all of the Murray-Darling Basin and is now called Red Dust Snow. My passion for the shared experience was nurtured through projects for state, regional, and local tourism organisations, producing aspirational and inspirational imagery for use across all forms of media — print, digital, and video: - Outback NSW Tourism - Destination NSW - South Coast Tourism - Broken Hill Tourism - Lightning Ridge Tourism - The Darling River Run project - Tourism Victoria ## Published Work Alongside my close relationship with all things travel, I have worked with most of the major travel and lifestyle magazine publishers, as well as the major Australian newspaper publishers, producing editorial and advertising photography, including: - The Canberra Times (ACM) - Newcastle Herald (ACM) - Ballarat Courier (ACM) - Illawarra Mercury (ACM) - The Land (ACM) - Queensland Country Life (ACM) - Stock & Land (ACM) - Australian Financial Review - Telegraph & Herald Sun Travel (News Ltd) - SMH & The Age Travel (Fairfax) - The Border Mail (Fairfax Media) - Caravan & Motorhome Magazine (Express Media) - Open Road (NRMA) - Australian Caravan & RV (NRMA) - 4WD Action (Express Media) - Camper Trailer Touring (Express Media) - Unsealed 4x4 (PC Media) - Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures (PC Media) - Australian Traveller (AT Media) - Outback Magazine (R.M. Williams) - Time to Roam - What’s Up Down Under ## Frequently Asked Questions Who is Simon Bayliss?Simon Bayliss is a professional photographer with more than twenty years of experience across travel, touring, editorial, lifestyle, portrait, and news photography. He is the founder of Red Dust Snow, a body of work spanning eastern Australia and Scandinavia. What does the name "Red Dust Snow" mean?Red Dust Snow captures the two landscapes at the heart of Simon’s work — the red dust of outback Australia and the snow of Scandinavia. The name was conceived while travelling the outback as a way to sum up the diversity of eastern Australia and northern Sweden. What kind of photography does Simon Bayliss specialise in?Travel and touring photography is the core focus, particularly across the Murray-Darling Basin, Outback NSW, the Corner Country, and Sweden. Simon has also produced editorial and advertising photography for tourism authorities and major Australian magazine and newspaper publishers. Where has Simon Bayliss been published?His work has appeared with publishers including ACM mastheads, the Australian Financial Review, News Ltd and Fairfax travel sections, and magazines such as Outback Magazine, Australian Traveller, 4WD Action, and Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures, among others. Can I buy prints of Simon Bayliss’s photography?Yes. Fine-art prints and wall art are available through the [Red Dust Snow wall art store](https://wallart.reddustsnow.com "Red Dust Snow Wall Art Store"), in a range of sizes and media. ## Explore the Work Follow the journey across Australia and Sweden — from the Darling River and Corner Country to the mountains of Jämtland. 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