Your most favourite bushwalking photo

[tasadam]

Natural Sand Painting, Tarkine Coast not far north from the Interview river.

I looked at it for about 30 seconds, waiting for it to finish loading. Then I realised it was a crop and it HAD finished!!

[taswegian]

This sits on my desktop - so I get a reminder of:
One of many places that makes Tasmania so unique.
A place of special memories - especially with one of my daughters who accompanied me on many trips.
Is my favourite and most visted place beyond 'civilisation'. (well thats debateable now as its getting a bit crowded at times for my liking- bit selfish I know)
A reminder of just how resilient nature can be - dead pine after devastating 1960?'s fire.
And much more
(it was also my first foray into digital cameras from my trusty SLR's)

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Mt Jerusalem

[ILUVSWTAS]

Wanted to enter this one in the upcoming photo comp, decided to stick with the original entry though, so i'll post it on here.

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[photohiker]

Natural Sand Painting, Tarkine Coast not far north from the Interview river.

I looked at it for about 30 seconds, waiting for it to finish loading. Then I realised it was a crop and it HAD finished!!

Ha! Its not actually a crop, it's a pano of 3 images.

[iandsmith]

I'm cheating a bit here but this one was taken this year so I didn't have it when the thread first went up.
It sort of represents the Snowy Mountains so well in summer for me. Hope you enjoy it.
Cheers all

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Looking from Charlotte Pass

[Taurë-rana]

Wanted to enter this one in the upcoming photo comp, decided to stick with the original entry though, so i'll post it on here.

Love that photo, pity you didn't enter it, would be nice in a calendar...

[anne3]

This isn't the best picture as far as veiws go, but it is my fav for the way I felt when it was taken...Finally I was living the dream of walking the AAWT, day 14 South bound.

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[MJD]

Another one to enjoy. Its a shot of the Douglas Creek below the Ranger's Hut at Pelion after soft powder snow fell most of the night (August 1979). The branches are weighed down, the rocks are covered in fresh snow, and there's slush in the creek from fallen snow. I even got wet feet stepping into the creek to improve the shot. I know its hard to believe that I'm old enough to have taken the shot so long ago, but unfortunately ... I am.

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Douglas Creek in winter clothing

[whynotwalk]

Love that rare winter scene! About time I posted one too. This panorama is of the Du Cane Range from Falling Mountain. I'm sure I've got technically better photos, but this was a special place on a special day. We'd waited out some very claggy easterly weather in the Labyrinth before we did a slow traverse of the whole Du Cane Range in weather like this. Unforgettable!

cheers

Peter

The Du Cane Range from Falling Mt

[SteveJ]

Little river - Nadgee wilderness. Taken with my dodgy little $200 digital.


Steve

[gayet]

One of my favourites. Just south of Sandy Cape, up in the dunes

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[Vern]

Shelf Camp Mt Anne. My wife and I set off on our first overnight hike in Tassie and had no idea of the challenges ahead. But with the challenges came great rewards! Unfortunately the original images of this trip are lost and all I have left are some pics that I uploaded to Flickr and some great memories.

Sunrise at Shelf Camp Mt Anne

[Swifty]

Good to see these photo's! The theme I'm reading is emotional connection to an event or time, and quality of the photo doesn't really matter. It's the story behind that's important. Such is my favourite - an appalling photo technically, but the memories of descending Moonlight Ridge after a very cold snowy night with my two mates is one I will never forget. Each time I look at it , I'm back there. This is on the section with all the tea tre below the moor, I'm sure those who have been there will recognize the general area. It was April 2009 during the cold snap.

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[tasadam]

And I bet you would have been very glad to be in the trees again too!

[phan_TOM]

Speaking of trees, may as well post my first photo here one of my favourite ever shots (if I can remember how to
get a picture on here ).

Taken at a place called Nymboi-binderay National Park in the middle of winter a few years ago. The weather
was stunning while we were there, perfect crisp sunny days (it was 7°C at 10am this day), ideal for getting out and
doing some walking. Most of the area has been logged but there are a number of voucher species left and patches of
incredible old growth forest with just massive trees. We had stopped a were having a breather and a drink and a
look around when I took this shot, my girlfriend had perched on this tree and the scene was one of great peace and
calm and I'm not sure if you'd call it maternal but we also had a feeling of absolute safety being in the presence of
such a grand old being. And "lucky" i had my tripod with me

[Graham51]

It's hard to choose a particular favourite photo but I have a number around The Pool of Memories. There is already at least one here showing Mt Geryon but I love the colour, light and mood of this picture I took when I camped there last year.

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[gorby]

Lees paddocks

a special day at a special place.

[Nick S]

I love this view.
It also reminds me of the worst leg cramping I've ever experienced, it was a 30deg day and I began getting leg cramps 2/3 of the way up Moraine A.. Cramping in both quads and hamstring muscle groups, was the worst. Took me an hour to climb the final 200m.

[jacko1956]

Last October (on our anniversary) my wife and I walked to Wallaces Hut (17km round trip as the road was closed) and were rewarded with the hut after two days of snow and no visits. The camera fogged a little around the edges but when printing we cropped that.

[stepbystep]

Keep meaning to post in this thread but can never settle on one, but I do keep going back to this morning, my first in the Western Arthurs, and the sense of wonder I felt with snow all around and the warmth of the sun on my face.

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[iandsmith]

Wow, came back for a visit and there's much of inspiration to admire here. Loved heaps of them and dying to know exactly where that tree is.
Thanks for sharing. Here's another that I took after the previous one I posted. It too, as with others here, brings back a special memory of getting up early just so I could hike out to the lookout and see the morning mist if I was lucky. Thus I did and then sat on the lookout for about half an hour. Inspirational for me. Cheers all

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Looking into Guy Fawkes

[South_Aussie_Hiker]

[phan_TOM]

Keep meaning to post in this thread but can never settle on one

Why settle on one, mine changes all the time depending on my mood or if I've taken a new one that usurps my old favourite

Such as this one which is sitting at the top at the moment, taken between showers on a chiily afternoon at Boonoo Boonoo Creek (edit: River) which is recovering after some pretty major flooding. I'm actually in the process of getting a large print done up of it to frame and put in my office.

Thats an awesome shot by the way. Rocks, snow, some altitude & a general feeling of uninhabitability. I bet that sun felt good!

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[tasadam]

..... taken between showers.....

Wow, you really do get some SHOWERS over there...

[phan_TOM]

I've got a bunch of shots that show the massive swathe of destruction that the floodwaters carved along the sides of the river, pretty hard to imagine what it must have been like at its peak as it was so gentle and calm while we were camping there. I would have loved to have seen that much water going over the Boonoo Boonoo Falls, at 210m it would have been a sight to behold....

[iandsmith]

When I was in the States recently I had moment in time I'll never forget. It was in Zion National Park and I stook gobsmacked taking in the view after the bus driver had dropped me off at Horseshoe Bend. Still can't forget it.

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Great White Dome at Zion

[Outdoorsy]

From the top of Mt Oakleigh near New Pelion Hut (Overland Tk) March 2010.
A last minute side trip which will stay with me forever

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[rach_h]

Lake Mackenzie on the Routeburn track. I'm no photographer, but Lake Mackenzie was gorgeous.

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[dazfromtaz]

i love the one of Lake Rhona?

[ILUVSWTAS]

i love the one of Lake Rhona?

thanks! it's a wonderful spot.

currently i love this pic....

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