Award-winning aerial photographer Andrew Vukosav reveals why Australia is best seen from the air

While Australia is undoubtedly a beautiful country filled with landscapes you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else on Earth, it's hard to capture its true nature - unless you're in the air.Or at least, that's what pilot and photographer Andrew Vukosav reckons.After spending 350 hours flying over 85,000 kilometres across Australia, the award-winning photographer has captured our country in a way that not many other people have. He tells 9Travel that one thing audiences always notice - especially when he's exhibiting overseas - is how similar his photos look to indigenous Australian art.READ MORE: Surprising town crowned the 'trendiest' spot in Australia right now"Aboriginal people have such a close bond with the land, and they paint these images from their minds," he said.In fact, indigenous art is what helped him hone his craft.On one of his first aerial photography trips, he flew up to Darwin. While there, he met with a number of Indigenous artists and was really inspired by their work. "Coming back, I had a very different way of looking at the landscape. I cemented this different sort of way of shooting, playing with natural lines in the landscape and so on. It made [my photos] a lot better.""It started off as a love job," he says, "but grew into a fairly large body of work.I thought, 'I've got to show people this, because it's quite beautiful'."READ MORE: Catriona Rowntree shares her top tips for choosing the right Scenic cruise for youFor Andrew, aerial photography was a combination of his two passions. He's been flying since he was in his 20s, and has over forty years of professional photography experience under his belt. He's shot for everyone from Vogue to Dior, even working with celebs like Sofia Vergara and Barry Humphries.One day while he was zipping around in his plane, he thought to himself 'wow, I really need to capture how beautiful this country is from above'. After getting a camera mount for the bottom of his Cessna, he was ready to go. After touring his exhibition through Europe - and wowing audiences over there - he's making his Sydney debut with Longitude Latitude Solitude.Though he's shot extensively across Australia, Andrew says he's drawn particularly to remote, untouched locations. "I wanted to find really pristine locations that don't have any sign of anything man-made," he says of his latest collection"I really love the deserts, the salt lakes, the vast array of colour that Australia has. There's so much diversity in the colour."But what makes Australia such an amazing place to capture on film?Andrew says it comes down to the "strangeness" of the landscape. "It's so very wild. It's hard to put your finger on it, but when you go out and look at it, there are these formations that you just marvel at. Like, how did that possibly form? It blows your mind.""Around Central Australia, there are mountain ranges that go for miles that look like they've been cut with a knife by somebody. It's just incredible." READ MORE: Everything you need to know about getting around the Europe summer hotspotsAndrew's absolute favourite place in Australia is the Tanami Desert in the NT. "I've never seen anything like it.""It's a really magic place," he says, "where lakes meet sand dunes. You get these floral sort of formations, which is really quite magical.""There's also an area in the centre of WA area called Carnegie station, where I stayed for a little while, where there are lakes and sand dunes. "Usually sand dunes are created by the wind, so they're straight and long. But over there, you've got these little circular, donut-shaped sand dunes, which is quite amazing."Andrew's number one piece of advice for budding landscape photographers is to find something that makes you unique. Anyone can fly a drone and snap some pics to put on Instagram, but the beauty of photography is being able to put your own stamp on it. "Create something with your own personal signature," he says. " So that people look at it and instantly recognise it as your own.""When you see great artists like Picasso, you might not know all his pieces, but when you look at one of his paintings you know it's by him."Andrew says that his interest in aerial photography has also led him to learn a lot more about geology and geography - everything just looks so fascinating that he wants to research as much about it as possible. "When I get home I just have to Google every single thing I've seen and find out, geologically speaking, how it got there," he said."[I'm interested in] not just the visuals, but how Australia works."Andrew's exhibition Longitude Latitude Solitude will show at the M2 Gallery in Sydney's Surry Hills, from June 20th to July 2nd.