Have You Been shooting With Ektachrome - Because You Can't Get Ahold Of Any Velvia?

[Taylor K Nankervis]

Yep.
It may take time. The organisation running the Residency has first dibs at viewing all of the results, and what they will print and exhibit – in a very posh, historic and of course, arty-farty venue. So...nothing can be put up for a perve until their sortie has wrapped up.

If you're curious, you can Google QUE RIVER TASMANIA and see a Waratah local (a small town and our rendezvous point) has a few unfortunately not very good quality pics of the general environment; scant few people go there really – it is very wild, cold, wet and remote, with the rainforest in darkness at 3.30pm (Daylight Savings time finishes on the east coast here on 7th April).

The icky Google pics though give a rough idea of how thick, dark and dim the rainforest is there – much darker than my usual softly-illuminated haunts of the mainland!

 

[gbroadbridge]

it is very wild, cold, wet and remote, with the rainforest in darkness at 3.30pm (Daylight Savings time finishes on the east coast here on 7th April).

It's a brave soul indeed who wanders into the Tasmanian wilderness after the Autumn Equinox.

Too nasty for the likes of me - I'll stick to the Tropics thank you. I can handle mosquitos better than icicles.

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

It's a brave soul indeed who wanders into the Tasmanian wilderness after the Autumn Equinox.

Too nasty for the likes of me - I'll stick to the Tropics thank you. I can handle mosquitos better than icicles.

It's going to be much more of a shock to a few of the other artists who have never set foot in a rainforest before. The organisers have factored in the possibility of a few 'tapping out' – leaving because the nature of the environment plays hauntingly on their mind. Fancy too, Tasmanian Devils often investigate very still, sleeping people in tents as assumed roadkill, and may nip an ear or finger (you'll know all about a nip in the night, never mind a more adventurous crunch...). Some people have music playing all night (even Nessun Dorma) to ward off foraging Devils.

I am not so keen on the tropics, save for bewitching Whitehaven Beach.

 

[benderscameracorner]

It's a brave soul indeed who wanders into the Tasmanian wilderness after the Autumn Equinox.

That, my friend, is when the magic absolutely happens.
Super exciting to see Hotham/Perisher get their first serious snow of the year. Sadly the front wasn't quite as spicy this far south, just windy ;-)

 

[Taylor K Nankervis]

Re photo #2: This lofty perch atop mist-shrouded Mount Wellington looks very familiar. I'm sure that leaning tor at left, snow-covered in wither or providing a splendid panorama of Hobart below in summer, has appeared in photographic form, possibly by Grant Dixon (?), along with Dombrovskis.

Hopefully the camera + tripod was weighted down/anchored as you stepped away to get the snap. Many a horrifying disaster has unfolded before my eyes with friends who have left their camera only to find it in battered bits on the ground (or sinking into the river) when their attention resumed. One such incident occurred at Lake Vera en route Frenchman's Cap more than a decade ago, the fall destroying a Chamonix 45F-N. The tears flowed freely.

 

[benderscameracorner]

Re photo #2: This lofty perch atop mist-shrouded Mount Wellington looks very familiar. I'm sure that leaning tor at left, snow-covered in wither or providing a splendid panorama of Hobart below in summer, has appeared in photographic form, possibly by Grant Dixon (?), along with Dombrovskis.

#2 is on the plateau of Mt Olympus, taken last year during the turning of the 'fagus. For my efforts in dragging it all the way up there through offtrack rainforest (about 700m elevation gain in a couple of kms) my RB decided to throw a light seal and generally marr a few rolls of Portra 800 amongst others. The #3 shot was one of the few images that didn't suffer from light leaks.

Thankfully it wasn't Ektachrome! (brings the thread neatly back on topic)