JB Plain Hut, Mt Hotham, Victoria, Australia

Australian Landscape Photography by Michael Boniwell. All images copyright. This is a tack sharp 92 megapixel image, suitable for enormous enlargements. View Larger on Chockstone Photography JB Plain Hut sits nested amongst some lovely gums on Mt Hotham, not far from Dinner Plain. I’d driven past it a few times and one day finally took the time to check it out. Realising there was a shot there I returned some months later when the summer flowers were about. Driving through the night and arriving in the dark ahead of the dawn, as I am accustom to do, I spent my usual time looking for compositions and settled on this one. When the sun came up, however, my flowers stubbornly refused to wake. Patiently I sat, tripod up, finger on the remote, but the sleepy vegetation did not so much as yawn, even when direct sun invaded the forest. Finally by mid-morning my flowers opened, but by this time the light was harsh and deeply shadowed. I needed some clouds. A check of my phone revealed possible showers by mid-day, so I continued my vigil, growing progressively more bored, but determined to see it through. By lunchtime sporadic clouds had wafted into the otherwise blue sky. I willed them to cover the sun. Pleaded with them. They would swirl tantalisingly close and then veer away teasing me. Just when I was about to pack it in and great big dark cloud appeared and immediately dominated the sky, diffusing my light wonderfully. I worked quickly trying a few variations, but before long it started to drizzle disturbing my pesky petals. The window of opportunity had closed, but I left feeling confident that I’d captured the scene at its best.

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