Bushwalk Australia

A lot of entries this month - 6 from Tas!! - possibly 8?
Do the mods know where 3 & 5 where taken?

5 was taken off track on the plateau above Pelverata falls i think... not sure about 3 atm....

Bit of a tough choice! All lovely photos

A great competition this month, makes me want to get out there!

Congratulations to the winner of the Australia April 2011 competition, with 10 votes:

• north-north-west - Feathertop and the Fainters from Machinery Spur

The key to all entries for this competition is below.

1 - Autumn Storm over the D'Entrecasteaux Channel
by whynotwalk.

2 - Frenchmans Cap from the valley
by Vern.

3 - Lone Tree on the rocks
by mountnman.

4 - Campfire, Little Plain, Alpine National Park, Victoria
by Earwig.

5 - Vanishing Giant
by Liamy77.

6 - Coles Bay Tasmania
by Trackmaster.

7 - Leech inspection, West Canungra Creek, SEQ
by Pteropus.

8 - Ramparts of Wilpena Pound as seen from Black Gap, South Australia
by eggs.

9 - Warners Bay sunset
by iandsmith.

10 - Looking across the mist to the Walls of Jerusalem from Turrana Bluff
by MJD.

11 - Tarn on the Central Plateau
by ILUVSWTAS.

12 - A Shinig Moment, SW Tasmania
by stepbystep.

13 - Federal Falls, Hazelbrook NSW
by johnw.

14 - Gardens of Stone National Park
by casey79.

15 - Sunrise over Hamilton Creek, northern Flinders Ranges
by jez_au.

16 - Feathertop and the Fainters from Machinery Spur
by north-north-west.

Good grief, I can't believe I won with that shot! I've had far better photos barely score a vote, and didn't think I had a hope against the rest of them.

Oh well, I'll take the win, anyway. Thank you all.
(Must have got the sympathy vote . . . )

ps: I love your campfire shot, Earwig.

It is a worthy photo NNW.
I presume it is a stitch of 2 shots and that you may have been using a polarising lens - on wide angle it darkens one part of the blue sky as compared with the rest.

The campfire shot was very skillfull.
They were all good photos though.
[Wth 44 votes total, 22 were won by photos from Tamania. It must be nice being able to enter 2 comps each month.]

Yes to the polarising filter, but no stitching. It's just carefully cropped from a wide open 10-22mm lens.

(And yes, it must be. I do have sympathy for those who refuse to vote for Tozzie images in the Aussie comp.)

Cant be helped if we live in the prettiest state in aus.

^^^^^^ cue debate.

Gee, and I thought you got a separate comp because you couldn't cut it with the real pros up here on the mainland . . .

north-north-west wrote:Gee, and I thought you got a separate comp because you couldn't cut it with the real pros up here on the mainland . . .

Hahaha ..... yeh.. well...

One head for each competition it makes us feel special!...It is a little bizzare we have two comps but I'm not complaining

Congrats NNW, a nicely cropped/framed shot

eggs wrote:[Wth 44 votes total, 22 were won by photos from Tamania. It must be nice being able to enter 2 comps each month.]

I'd prefer no overlap between the comps, but as it is I only vote for Tassie photos in the Tassie comp. Which must be fairly common as I think (?) only one Tassie photo has won an Australia Photo of the Month.

do we need a NSW and VIC comp too? i can understand your reasonong for witholding votes, but to me the best photo should be the one you vote for in all fairness- so long as it was taken in AUSTRALIA- and yes to beat the smartalecs to the joke tassie IS part of AUS! .
.......maybe we just need better photos/scenery from the other states? (teasing only folks) lol

Thank you NNW and Eggs for the kind comments.

I liked 12 Shining Moment and the winning shot - it gave an good sense of space. they were all good. Looking forward to the next comp - except I haven't been walking much this month but lots of fungi shots.