Bushwalk Australia

In the imortal words of my 13 year old daughter OMG!

WHAT a month. WOW. I don't think I've ever had so many wonderful choices for first. Well done everyone.

Congratulations to the winner of the Tasmania March 2014 competition, with 17 votes:

• Tortoise - Evening at Cradle

The key to all entries for this competition is below.

1 - Fabulous Franklin
by Graham51.

2 - A Sublime Sunrise
by stepbystep.

3 - Clear(ing) Hill from Packers Spur
by north-north-west.

4 - sunrise from on high (Western Arthurs).
by naturelover.

5 - High Dome lets the sun out for another day.
by MJD.

6 - Frenchmans Half-Veiled
by whynotwalk.

7 - Evening at Cradle
by Tortoise.

Wow Tortoise, that is such a good photo. The best I've seen for ages. It's a calender cover photo.
So was it right place - right time or were you sitting there with numb legs and bum for hours???

Wow, thanks for that, Tibbs. And thanks for the vote of confidence, folks. I find it really hard to be objective with my shots. I would have voted for somebody else's (and what a choice there was!) if I'd voted.

It was very definitely right place at the right time - but I'm now planning on trying to replicate the conditions. I started back from Waterfall Valley Hut at nearly 5.30pm, having helped some friends doing the OLT. That was much later than I planned, for reasons I was quite grumpy about at the time. But as the sun was setting, and I had the plateau to myself, with magic light, no wind and oceans of cloud in the valleys, my cup was overflowing big time.

I nearly didn't submit the photo, because it's too soft - i can't get sharp shots on either of my cameras. So thanks, naturelover, for saying you liked it a while ago, which made me cautiously enter it here. Not happy with the contrast & brightness - it doesn't capture the real glow, but there you go.

Tortoise wrote: but I'm now planning on trying to replicate the conditions.

Good luck trying to replicate this one

Nice one Tortoise congrats. Kathleen's Pool I assume?

Such a cool looking mountain is Cradle.

Tortoise wrote:
I nearly didn't submit the photo, because it's blatantly too soft - i can't get sharp shots on either of my cameras. Not happy with the contrast & brightness - it doesn't capture the real glow, but there you go.

Oh and I was thinking it was *&%$#! marvelous until reading that!
Well Done!

stepbystep wrote:Nice one Tortoise congrats. Kathleen's Pool I assume?

Actually it was just a little pool east of the track between Kitchen Hut and Marions.

Such a cool looking mountain is Cradle.

Reckon! I never get tired of it.

Oh and I was thinking it was *&%$#! marvelous until reading that!
Well Done!

:lol: But thanks

Lovely shot, Tortoise

Tortise just dong up with the self criticism next time, take the compliments and say yep I'm good aren't I. You should have been there, I swear you could hear Angels singing it was that magical! Now I'm looking at it with your insecure overly critical eye which is trying to spoil the pic grrrr

Seriously I still like it, though better luck with getting the prefect shot next time

Think I've got it now - will keep thoughts to self instead of telling people why they shouldn't have voted for my shot. Maybe I'll think re aiming for a better camera one day.