Surrounded by ancient rainforest, the dark and mysterious, tannin-laden waters of Pencil Pine Creek in the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park. Tasmania.
My advice is to make it big :-)
Ricoh GRiii, 18.3mm f/2.8 GR lens, 1.0 sec at f/16, ISO 400. Internal ND filter.
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The Cradle Valley Boardwalk winding through ancient rainforest. Cradle Mountain Lake StClair National Park, Tasmania.
Nikon Z6, Nikkor 24-200/4-6.3. 1/30th sec at f/5, ISO 400 ~24mm
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From the Lake Lilla track looking south to Marions Lookout (~1215m). Cradle Mountain (1545m) and Little Horn at the left. Crater Peak (1270m) on the skyline at the right.
Cradle Mountain - Lake StClair National Park Tasmania.
Seven portrait frame stitch. Flickr's rendering of letterbox format images leaves a lot to be desired - forced to export at maximum to get acceptable detail... :\ Having done that, looks a whisker over-sharpened!
Ricoh GRIII, 18.3mm f/2.8 GR lens, 1/2000th sec at f/10, ISO 400.
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Right beside the grave of Gustav Weindorfer was this delightful little garden.
I'm yet to get a positive ID on this spiky little moss amongst last season's Fagus leaves. It is possibly Polytrichastrum formosum or Haircap.
The beautifully corrugated red-gold leaves are from Tasmania's endemic Gondwana relic - Nothofagus gunnii. The Fagus is Australia's only deciduous tree. It is much loved by Tasmanian walkers.
Austrian born Gustav Weindorfer (23 February 1874 – 5 May 1932) was almost single-handedly responsible for the establishment of the World Heritage listed, Cradle Mountain - Lake StClair National Park. The park receives thousands of visitors per year who come to marvel at and experience the remarkable landscape of this little island.
Gustav is buried near Waldheim, the chalet he built as his home and to also host visitors to the valley. May he rest in peace.
Ricoh GRiii, Ricoh GR Lens 18.2/2.8, 1/80th sec at f/2.8, ISO 400
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A view of Lake Hanson (left) and Dove Lake with Cradle Mountain (1545m) in the background. Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park - World Heritage Area. Tasmania.
Hansons Peak (1185m) left of centre with the walking track running up the ridge. The conifer-looking trees in the foreground are endemic Pencil Pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides) along with a scattering of winter-bare Fagus (Nothofagus gunnii).
While the scenery is pretty good, what makes the image for me is the potted history of Tasmania's geological past represented in the frame.
The mountain is of Jurassic Dolerite which sits on a thin bench of Permian conglomerate - clearly visible under the eastern end. The whole shebang is then separated by the 'great unconformity' from the massive Precambrian quartzite bedrock that forms the majority of the landscape here.
The Precambrian deposit reveals some of the oldest exposed rocks on the planet at ~1.4 billion years old and connects Tasmania geologically to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in the US :-)
Cradle Mountain experienced both sheet and glacial erosion in the Pleistocene Age leaving Dove Lake remaining as a remnant glacial lake. Lake Hanson (some 200m higher than Dove Lake) remains as a hanging lake as does little Lake Wilks which can be seen on that bench below the western peak.
Once again, would have liked a lot more snow but it wasn't going to happen... Next time.
Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 24-200/4-6.3, 1/640th sec at f/10, ISO 200.
12 portrait frame stitch at 35mm. The low res version looked rubbish so it's full size - make it big :-)
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