Koji has kindly agreed to share some photographs of a platypus he caught in the wild in Tasmania last week. Platypus sightings are quite rare and we have never seen one in this busy day tripper area.
Over to Koji:
My wife, her uncle and I went to Cradle on Friday for bushwalking and stayed at Scout Hut near Crater Lake. On the way back to Ronny Creek carpark on Saturday, about noon we walked past other hikers and they said to us they saw a platypus in a little creek along the boardwalk so we kept en eye out for that.
As we approached the place we saw the platypus swimming along a creek.
As we all know Frank is a pretty ordinary cinematographer.
Others have more refined skills that combine a great eye and terrific editing skills.
Let’s introduce Jeff Jennings from Bridport in Tasmania. He has a terrific selection of videos over at YouTube and maintains a site for his passion, Sea Kayaking in Tasmania.( that stuff looks really scary)
We came across his video on the Overland Track in Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park recently and thought it well worth sharing.
Jeff has combined two different trips , one in Winter and the other Autumn. The contrast is quite spectacular.
Ok, so hiking, bushwalking or tramping is a form of travel. No question. When we travel (usually by foot) we love to capture beautiful images of what we’ve seen or who we have met. It is a given.
Bringing home fantastic photos of mountains, scenery, sunrises, sunsets or the people we meet are treasures. A pleasure to be enjoyed for years to come as we reflect on a great trip or spectacular vista we were fortunate enough to capture as a photograph. We were lucky enough to be sent a sample copy of a new eBook called Transcending Travel – A guide to captivating travel photography . This is the latest in a series of high quality “how to’s” produced by Darren Rowse at Digital Photography School. Well worth a look, it has some great tips.
In this article we interview Dennis Harding one of Tasmania’s leading (maybe THE leading) Wilderness Photographers. We met Dennis at Kitchen Hut, near Cradle Mountain in Tasmania a few weeks ago and following a quick exchange of contact information caught up by email and arranged this interview.
Dennis is the author of eight Tasmanian books and each year releases two calendars – “Spectacular Tasmania” and “Classic Images”. Of course there is also a DVD (which looks pretty cool) so you could say Dennis takes photography seriously.
We hope you enjoy this insight into Dennis and the fantastic wilderness images from Tasmania he has generously shared. Our personal favourite is ……? What is your’s?
In our family we own at least six LED headlights.
They are a terrific invention, lightweight, kind on batteries and relatively inexpensive. All in all, winners and a huge improvement on a hand held torch for bushwalking. Many of you will have one for hiking or around camp at night.
Via our internet travels we discovered what seems to be the next generation of LED (or is it the lens?) technology and wanted to share some of the images taken using one of this companies LED torches as the “lighting” for an outdoor photography shoot. Very impressive.
