By request, here are some more shots taken from the walk we did.
Morning of the 2nd day, Lake Vera.
I think the blurry branches in the foreground adds to the depth, and the ripply water is a fantastic backdrop for this image.
Midday, 2nd day, Barron Pass.
The stark sharpness of this old tree with the sunlight really strikes me. At the right time of day with a clear and dark blue background, this could really be something special.
Midday, 2nd day, Barron Pass.
Looking southwest over some glacier formed lakes, the lighting on this pine with its lichen in the wind was too good to walk past.
End of 2nd day, Lake Tahune.
If you cover the bottom half of this photo, you get a typical photo of the area. But with the startling reflection of Frenchmans Cap in the water, your eyes can be drawn away from what would normally be an interesting image in itself, almost into a movie scene from something like LOTR.
End of 2nd day, Lake Tahune.
As per comments above, typical of the area, and too good to leave out.
Perhaps I could have brightened it up a bit to enhance the greens but my monitor isn't the best and I might make it worse.
Mid morning, 3rd day. The challenge ahead.
Early afternoon, 3rd day. From the summit (obviously), how blue the sky was! Even with the whispy clouds.
Late morning, 4th day.
Over North Col and behind Frenchmans Cap on the way to the Franklin River, a startling amphitheatre of white quartzite.
Less than an hour on.
How quickly the weather can turn. The clouds were just amazing. If my monitor is playing tricks again, try darkening it up and see how much definition you get in the clouds!
Early afternoon, 4th day.
Franklin River is in th deep ravine in the centre of the pic. The other ravine in the foreground right that meets up with the Franklin is Tahune Creek. They join at the Irennabys and that's the destination for this day (below black cliff in centre of pic). 1 km down from highest point behind us here.
In 3 days time (including 1 rest day at F.River) we will be in the far left top corner of this pic - Flat Bluff leading on to Raglan Range.
During 5th day.
Going to extremes for a good cause.
Check where the water level gets to on the cliffs when the river is at its peak!
Good Cause number 1
Good Cause number 2
How I would have loved to have a neutral density filter here...
It's hard to believe that our ex-premier Gray described this as‘nothing but a brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people’
I am happily a "minority".
Now. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You don't know what weather you are going to get, but spending a week in the southwest of Tassie and you to will find a need to do something like this...
Middle of the 5th day.
5th day, tripod abuse number 149,520
5th day.
Taken from inside the tent - this is the branch of a Huon pine tree.
5th day. The polished rocks that form the banks of the Franklin River really come to life after a bit of rain. If it hadn't rained, we would not have got this and many fantastic photos like it.
5th day, sunset.
I didn't try different exposures here, I just took a few with guesswork for the time of exposure. I don't think I could have got it better, this is one of my favourites. Hard to balance light ie rock too dark and some of water too bright, but overall I love it.
Afternoon, 7th day, Raglan Range.
Now if you were a little kid, and you woke up one day and looked out your window and saw this, I reckon you'd wet the bed or something... The monsters in these trees are captivating. Big daddy on the right, with his cap on backwards, looking down... the fog making it all the more spooky.
Actually, it's low cloud - we're at the 1000 metre mark.
Same place.
This is a late inclusion. Having seen the previous photo, I couldn't leave this one out. The weather has really done a job on these trees over time, it's a wonder many of them stand the way they do - especially this one.
I was going to crop this to take out some of the foreground bush to the right, but having tried, I liked it better the way it was. (Must be why I took it that way).
How lucky we were to have things damp and foggy, really added to the experience of being here.
I hope you enjoyed this little look into our circuit walk of Frenchmans Cap, out via Raglan Range.
