A unique view of an Agave Americana bloom
Just downstream from where the Franklin River joins the Gordon RIver in Tasmania’s South-West World Heritage Area. Despite its remote, pristine appearance, this spot recieves thousands of visitors per year from nearby Strahan. After rafting the Franklin River, it’s a bit of a shock to arrive here amidst a throng of tourists, a float plane, and a large tourist ferry… Limited to cards on RedBubble, this image is available as a limited edition print from my website © Doug Thost 2005 Tech details: Canon EOS1n with 20-35mm lens, 30sec exposure on Fuji Provia 100
North east coast of Tasmania, Australia Featured in Dimensions September 2009
Thats what I like about tomorrows. They are always filled with promise. A clean slate with no mistakes in it, no words spoken that may have been better left unsaid… Come find me Tomorrow. Je suis pret Sisters Beach, Tasmania
Long passed away twisted pencil pines up at the Tarn Shelf, Mt. Field N.P. Tasmania..
The Rainforests of the Tarkine, some 177,000 hectares, include the largest unbroken stand of rainforest in Australia. A relic from the ancient continent, Gondwanaland, the Tarkine rainforest is one of the most significant temperate rainforests on earth. It is home to 56 threatened and endangered species, such as the Giant Freshwater Crayfish – the world’s largest freshwater invertebrate and the Tasmanian Wedge Tailed Eagle – the largest Eagle in Australia. These rainforests are recognised as being one of the most significant tracts of temperate rainforest on earth, and are under imminent threat. While logging of pure stands of rainforest is occurring in and around the periphery of the Tarkine, the logging industry is pushing the Tasmanian Government to allow logging through the heart of the Tarkine Rainforests. This would divide the rainforest and seriously fragment the Tarkine’s wilderness qualities. Information sourced from John Merory I recently had the pleasure of working with Maree Jenkins who is soon to be opening her Tarkine Wilderness Lodge in the heart of the Tarkine Rainforest. Maree shared with me her love and intense passion for this very important little corner of the world. By establishing the Lodge as a viable tourism venture Maree hopes to stave off the chainsaws and brutal machinery of the Government which threaten to steal the life breath of the forest, stripping it of its natural beauty. Save our forests. They desperately need our voice for they have no voice of their own.
A small tannin stained creek on the edge of the Tarkine in north-west Tasmania spills its way toward the sea. / The colouring is a natural stain that comes out of the heath, button grass and melaleuca vegetation. This stained water is very common in Tasmania and is some of the sweetest water I have ever drank. / When the water is shallow with a sand bottom it is a beautiful sepia tone and as it gets deeper it turns black. / When it hits turbulence it whitens the same as any water does and gives a myriad sepia shades depending on the level of turbulence. / Nikon D40 / Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR lens at 20mm / ISO 200 / 0.62 secs at F/20 / No Flash 959+ views featured in Waterfall Photography November 2008 / featured in Natural Colour & Light group 24th March 2009 / featured in Dimensions group 24th September 2009 / featured in Alphabet Soup group 26th September 2009 / featured in Photographers of Redbubble group 5th October 2009 Top Ten in the Waterfall Group – Buyers Only Challenge in February 2009 / Top Ten in Tasmania Groups Waterfall Challenge 19th September 2009 / Top Ten in The Alphabet Group – Best of N Challenge 3rd October 2009
Sunset light backlights the surf & spray as a silhouetted surfer rides another one in at West Point Reserve, Marrawah NW Tasmania. Nikon D40 / Nikkor 18-200 VR lens @ 200mm / ISO-200 / F/16 / 1/100th of a second 1060+ views featured in SEA / featured in Photography 101 group 23rd June 2009 / featured in Waves group 6th September 2009 / featured in Art by Bubble Hosts group 6th September 2009 / featured in DSLR users group 7th September 2009 / featured in Natural Colour & Light group 10th September 2009 / featured in Silhouette group 11th September 2009 / featured in The Ashes- Australia vs England group 8th October 2009 / featured in Australia’s Great Coastline group 12th October 2009 Top Ten in the Sunset or Sunrise Wave challenge in the Waves group January 2009 / Top Ten in the Using Natural Lighting challenge in the Photography 101 group 23rd June 2009 Sold as a framed A4 print as a result of being in an exhibition / My first RedBubble Sale – a 457×300mm canvas on 16th October 2009
Sold several cards of this image Oct 09, thank you sooooo much to my mystery buyers… Taken on a Canon DSLR using a tripod and natural light. / The Bridestowe Estate Lavender Farm established in 1922, is the one of the world’s largest single commercial lavender farms, producing the finest quality lavender flowers and lavender oil used traditionally in the perfumery industry. The Bridestowe plantations have made Tasmania famous worldwide for its lavender. / This image has been featured in / A Photographers Craft / Tasmania / Your Magic Place / Color me a rainbow / A Garden Somewhere / A View somewhere….. * Sold 2 cards of this image today Oct 09…thank you / / See some of my images that have been featured on / red bubble home page, two home page features in / one week….so excited. thank you all…march 09* / Peek a Boo White Valley!
Coles Bay Freycinet National Park Tasmania. / Canon 30d 17-85mm lens. / /
Well been away from RB for a week but will catch up with all the work I’ve missed from you all. I took this shot last night and got frost nip in the process, so my finger tips all felt like they had been smashed with a hammer, can still feel it a bit today, I’ve already been told off for not wearing gloves ;-) / It was really beautiful and worth a little pain. Taken on Mt Wellington Tasmania facing west to distant mountain ranges.
Song by Dave Matthews Standing here / The old man said to me / Long before these crowded streets / Here stood my dreaming tree / Below it he would sit / For hours at a time / Now progress takes away / What forever took to find / Now he’s falling hard / He feels the falling dark / How he longs to be / Beneath his dreaming tree / Conquered fear to climb / A moment froze in time / When the girl who first he kissed / Promised him she’d be his / Remembered mother’s words / There beneath the tree / No matter what the world / You’ll always be my baby / Mommy come quick / The dreaming tree has died / The air is growing thick / A fear he cannot hide / The dreaming tree has died / Oh have you no pity / This thing I do / I do not deny it / All through this smile / As crooked as danger / I do not deny / I know in my mind / I would leave you now / If I had the strength to / I would leave you up / To your own devices / Will you not talk / Can you take pity / I don’t ask much / But won’t you speak / Please / From the start / She knew she had it made / Easy up ‘til then / For sure she’d make the grade / Adorers came in hordes / To lay down in her wake / She gave it all she had / But treasures slowly fade / Now she’s falling hard / She feels the fall of dark / How did this fall apart / She drinks to fill it up / A smile of sweetest flowers / Wilted so and soured / Black tears stain the cheeks / That once were so admired / She thinks when she was small / There on her father’s knee / How he had promised her / You’ll always be my baby / Daddy come quick / The dreaming tree has died / I can’t find my way home / There is no place to hide / The dreaming tree has died / Oh if I had the strength / Take me back / Save me please -Dave Matthews Band Shot taken- Mt Wellington
Taken on a recent trip to Port Arthur – my most favourite place in the world so far. This is the avenue that leads to the Port Arthur church, otherwise known as my sanctuary :) I have visited Port Arthur many times, however this was the first time I have seen it wearing it’s autumn colours. So very beautiful…
West coast early morning light at Temma on Tasmania’s northern west coast as far as the coastal gravel road goes south. Tasmania is in Sth East Australia. After this its mud in winter and soft sand in summer. For about a one week period on the changeovers from wet to dry and dry to wet you can get an normal car 10 miles further south (if you dont really care about the gearbox, sump or exhaust system) The sky is the natural colour slightly underexposed. / Below the horizon the coppery colour has been auto corrected out and a white and black point added. Nikon D90 / Sigma 10-20mm lens / 3 stop grad ND filter 500 views. featured in SEA group 23rd August 2009 / featured in Nikon D90 users group 24th August 2009 / featured in Art By Bubble Hosts group 29th November 2009 / featured in Pure Nature group 29th November 2009 / featured in Sensational Sun group 1st December 2009 / featured in Alphabet Soup-W group 6th December 2009 Top Ten in the All Water in Motion Group – Moving Water at Dusk or Dawn Challenge 11th September 2009 / Top Ten in the Focus & Lighting Group – Time Exposures Challenge 28th September 2009 / Top Ten in The Beauty of Nature Groups’ -Fabulous Landscapes Challenge 8th October 2009 / Top Ten in the Moody,Dark & Evocative Groups’ – Water of Life Challenge 22nd October 2009 Sold to a local buyer as a 30”x20” framed metallic print
Cradle Mountain taken from Dove Lake, with the boat shed to the right. The tree to the right is an Australian Gum Tree, or eucalypt. Taken at sunset 5:30pm. I know there is millions of photos of this famous mountain range, so I hope you like this one. Cradle mountain is in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia. The main peak is 1,545 metres above sea level. Canon 50D, 10mm. Available Large, and best viewed Large!
We were racing the clock to try get to Port Arthur by sunset, and there was just too many bends, and slow trucks… However, this beautiful scene popped up, and we were only 10 mins from the site, I had to make a decision… I’m glad I stopped, turns out, the site was closed anyhow, and I got this shot of some weeping willows, and still water pools. 5 mins allong what seems to be an un-named side street, I think it was private property too, but not signed.. Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia. Canon 50D, 10mm. Available large and best viewed large!!
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no thats not its real name. But this image totally surprised me. I thought the camera held solely throw aways. Went for a shoot with Murph and didnt feel as if I had anything. / Then I looked at this more closely and yes it does have washed out sunset highlights but they mightnt be too much of a problem. / I love the isolation of all the little “islands”. West Point Reserve / Marrawah / NW Tasmania Nikon D90 / Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 10mm cropped / 20 seconds or so 627+ views featured in Your Magic Places 20th September 2009 / featured in SEA group 21st September 2009 / featured in Morning & Evenings, Sunbeams & Storms 24th September 2009 Top Ten in Focus & Lighting Groups’ Show Your Favourite Subject Challenge 25th October 2009 featured on the RedBubble Homepage Tasmanian edition on 10th October 2009
Up at 5am to chance a morning shoot in good light revealed more than we could have hoped for. / Just as Murph & I had convinced ourselves that the sunrise wasn’t going to do much, we realised that we had better look for a foreground to look east instead of pointing the cameras at the sea. / Headed to Rebecca Lagoon on Tasmania’s west coast near Temma to get a double whammy of it by including the reflection and weren’t disappointed at all. / Big sky, magic water, foreshore reeds. / Does it get any better than this? / Straight from the camera this one. / How surreal is this. Magic morning indeed. / Trips to “the shack” are yielding excellent results so far. Must be the frame of mind and karma. / And it got better as we ventured further on foot for the next 4 hours or so. Nikon D90 / Sigma 10-20mm featured in All Countries Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes & Rivers group 28th October 2009 / featured in The Great Outdoors group 29th October 2009 / featured in Dimensions group 29th October 2009 / featured in International Photographers Alliance group 18th November 2009 sold as a card on RedBubble 7th December 2009 thank you very much
Seagulls,West Inlet, / Stanley NW Tasmania Probably hard to believe but this idyllic pic is straight from the camera. Nikon D90 / Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens featured in Shapes & Patterns group 12th November 2009 / featured in Unlimited Quality group 12th November 2009 / featured in SEA group 12th November 2009 / featured in The Ashes-Australia vs England group 14th November 2009 / featured in Australian Travel Photography group 16th November 2009 / featured in Live, Love,Dream group 15th December 2009 Winner of the Mood & Ambience Group-Your Best Yellow Challenge 6th December 2009
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