Overland Track April 2009
Back in April, I stole a week before our Cradle Mountain Workshop to walk the Overland Track for the second time. The first time was 12 years previously in 1997, my first serious landscape photography shoot. At that time, I carried two packs – one on my back with all the camping gear, and one of the front with my camera gear. But I couldn’t have been that serious as I didn’t even take a tripod!
This time round, everything came with me – three cameras, two lenses, a tripod, 40 rolls of film, etc etc. All in one pack this time weighing 32 kgs. The next series of blog posts will feature some of the images from the trip.
The first is this one – photographically the highlight of the trip. After walking through two days of rain, snow, sleet, fog, cloud, and everything else that Tasmanian weather can throw at you, on the third night we camped on Pelion Gap at the base of Mount Ossa. The plan being to climb Ossa, Tasmanian’s highest mountain, for sunrise the next morning.
This was the sunset looking south towards the other 30 or so kms of the Overland ahead of us. The cloud drifted in, the light went off, and I snapped off about 1GB of images – pano stitches galore. And I even shot some film Fletch! Tricked up for APPA, this didn’t make it in. Maybe next year!
nice…maybe a bit of crop from the right? Were the film frames of this any good?
The APPA that nearly was
david evans said this on June 21, 2009 at 9:54 am |
Fantastic image Tom, would be great to see printed.
Andrew Brown said this on July 23, 2009 at 9:05 am |
Hi Tom,
This is one of the best images of the Tasmanian highlands that I have seen in a long time!
Great work.
Tim
islandimages said this on October 15, 2009 at 11:35 pm |
Mmm looking at it again the dead pencil pine trees in a the foreground are a little overdone (too light) but that’s easily fixed. Thanks Tim, Andrew and David.
Tom with the pink feather boa said this on October 16, 2009 at 6:56 pm |