This is a similar view to the one from the balcony of that great house on Sandy Bay Road. Of course the colours here are not realistic and I would describe this as photo art. But considering the muted sunrise that morning, I thought I would see what it might look like through a colour toned monochrome. The trick here was getting that pink sky reflected in the water.

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The weather conditions were not conducive to good colour photography. So this shot from the Frankland Beaches at the southern end of Lake St Clair made another obvious opportunity to try a little colourisation.

What I am doing here through layering and the application of digital colour toning, is to synthesise how photographic artists worked in the second half of the 19th century. They literally hand coloured their monochrome prints with ink or watercolours. I imagine this is how the scene might have looked had Piguenit decided to colourise one of his photographs instead of painting award winning landscapes in oils.

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We have only just completed the Platypus Bay Circuit, a walk of a couple of hours. But for those completing the six day Overland Track hike - especially in poor weather - this rest hut might be just the tonic.

I decided to take this black and white shot and add some colour. Those green walls are actually dark brown, but since this is photo art I prefer the green. Perhaps I can give the Parks and Wildlife Service a little suggestion.

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Yesterday I said that the colours of nature really can't be improved upon. And I completely stand by that view. So I'll say right at the beginning this is photo art, and not an attempt to improve on nature. I don't do much of it anymore, preferring to stick by my naturalistic aesthetic, but the experiment is worthwhile from time to time.

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Okay, the colour shots I took of this relatively recent tourist attraction just didn't fly. These tree sculptures looked exactly like they are meant to in photos: Tourist snapshots. I converted this one to black and white. Better, but not the sort of scene that goes well in monochrome. So what the heck, I decided to give it the full colour tinting treatment.

The scene depicted here on this once grand old tree is of the building of Campbell Town's famous bridge. I can actually remember the trees and they were so lovely, and the decision to go with this obvious tourist attraction is still a sore spot with some locals.

There were actually three trees carved by Ross artist Eddie Freeman. Each depicts an element of local history. www.justmovindowntheroad.com/campbell-town.html

In this one we see a British soldier (a Red Coat) guarding the convict Martin Cash (1808-1877) who was in the gang that built the bridge. Martin Cash's story is phenomenal. He ended up living quite a long life (very rare for a bushranger who was usually shot or hanged) and publicised his own exploits in a book published in 1843. This is perhaps the first sensationalist autobiography of a criminal in Australian history.

Cash also escaped from the high security prison camp at Port Arthur. I won't go into details here, but the geography of Port Arthur was specifically chosen to make escape almost impossible. Cash did it TWICE! His sentence of death was commuted and he was sent to the convict prison at Norfolk Island. Late in life he was released and returned to Van Diemen's Land where he died in 1877. A remarkable life!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cash

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