The Victorian High Country has many ridge line ribbon tracks to be enjoyed by 4wd. / This track is Blue Rag Track and rides the ridge line of the Blue Rag Range. One of the most spectacular tracks with outstanding views in the Victorian High Country, this track should only be driven by experienced 4wd’s with low range gears.
Tambo Crossing, Victoria, Australia. After one of Victoria’s worst ever bushfires swept through in January 2007. This image was taken in March 2007. adgray has written some beaut verse to accompany this image. Highly recommended reading. Please read Nature’s Eternal Optimism! by adgray
A few months earlier fire had raveged the hilly bushland, now with the first green of regrowth showing, a cloudy cold front has swept in from the south/west showing the two opposites of Australian weather in the one picture.
This Started life as a set of scribbles in Texta/marker trying to capture the feeling of a cracked rock. Pulled into Photoshop for some work and somehow it has metamorphosed into an image of trees after a bushfire and after the rain… when a tinge of greenness is just starting to show hope for the future.
Mt. St. Helens, downside from the blast shows the new life after the forest is gone.
Regrowth after Bushfires in Australian Snowy Mountains
This is one of the spurs that travels up throught the high country on Mt Stirling, this track runs between Hut No#3, Refuge Hut and Razorback Hut (or known to the locals as Purcell’s Hut) It was devastating to see that these beautiful snow gums have not recovered from the 2006/2007 bushfires. It was still a beautiful spot to see and it was a childhood dream of mine to be up there in amongst these beauties, so i was in awe! (I am addicted to the high country to… i shall be returning VERY soon) Thi image is the first of may to come!
Those that know me well know that i was shattered when Craig’s hut burnt down in the 2006/2007 bush fires. I have loved “The Man from Snowy River” since i was a little girl and it had always been a dream of mine to one day see Craig’s hut in the flesh… then it was ravished by fire last year… well they have rebuilt it and thanks to our wonderful friend whom we stay with in Bonnie Doon, he took me and my family up there, knowing how much it would mean to me… I apologise now as i have about 70 odd photos from here and i am sure that a good number will end up on the Bub! This really was a dream come true, silly to some maybe, but for me a special moment i will never forget. I will be returning very soon as I have fallen in love with it up there…
Those that know me well know that i was shattered when Craig’s hut burnt down in the 2006/2007 bush fires. I have loved “The Man from Snowy River” since i was a little girl and it had always been a dream of mine to one day see Craig’s hut in the flesh… then it was ravished by fire last year… well they have rebuilt it and thatks to our wonderful friend whom we stay with in Bonnie Doon, he took me and my family up there, knowing how much it would mean to me… / I will be returning here as i have fallen in love with the High country!
Another view of Craig’s Hut on Mt Stirling.
Taken on Mt Stirling
My first attempt at a HDR image. Not a true one in the sense that i took multiple exposure shots… i made different exposure shots with my RAW converter…then put together with photomatrix… Was good fun! Not sure it is right but i think it looks ok???
Soon after the fires at Halls Gap VIC I was walking up the trail, it was so cold that I could see the mist ahead of me hiding the blacken trees and the green vines growing around them. This photo was as I took it at the time, no touch ups made. Just nature doing her thing.
The Grass tree (Xanthorrhoea australis) like many Australian plants needs fire to propagate effectively. Under normal conditions it is rare for the flower to form, after fire however it is a different story with every grasstree in sight sporting an amazing ‘kangaroo tail’ from its mop. I found this bunch on the lower slopes of Mt Oberon at Wilsons Promontory a few months after the 2005 bushfires. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
“Regrowth” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A succulent flower emerging from a background of stone. “We are all visitors to this time, this place. / We are just passing through. / Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, / to love… and then we return home.”
After the bushfire…
While driving around the tracks of Mount Hotham with Jared and the family I was saddened to see the same scene I had witnessed this time last year – dead Ghost Gums for as far as the eye can see. Ravaged by wildfires some years ago, these trees do not regenerate by growing new leaves and branches like most gums, instead they must begin a slow process of regrowth from the roots deep below the parched soil. Thankfully, that regrowth has been allowed to continue and it appears to be 30cm or so more than last year. How fragile our environment is!
Day 73 after the Delburn complex of bushfires in Gippsland burnt this area in Janurary 2009. bubblesite / photography blog / portfolio / ©T.Middleton2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— /
Day 77 after the catastrophic Feb 7 Victorian bushfires. bubblesite / photography blog / portfolio / ©T.Middleton2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— /
Toolangi, 3 months after Victorian Febuary 09 bushfires. / However much the devastation caused is a terrible event, the regeneration of the bush is beautiful. It’s amazing how it just fights back. Victoria, Australia. May 2009.
Kinglake 3 months after the 2009 Victorian bushfires. As you drive through the scorched bush you are graced with this contrast of black and bright green. / In some places it is black with dark to light maroon. It is beautiful. Australia May 2009.
The greens fighting back against the black burnt trunks and it’s taking over! Ironic that something that caused so much devastation comes back so beautiful. Kinglake, 3 months after the Victorian bushfires. May 2009 Australia.
After fire the grass tree (Xanthoria australis) flowers in a spectacular and prolific manner. This particular one had a flower stem about 3m in height. Astonishing given that the plant grows merely a couple of centimeters per year, yet after fire these flower spikes can grow to several meters in 2-3months. It was not only this that attracted me to this particular specimen, but the smaller and very unusual ‘dolphin’ shaped flower near the crown. view this image large bubblesite / photography blog / portfolio Canon 5DmkII / ©T.Middleton2009 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——
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