Bushwalk Australia

How do you get it down to one photo? If you're like me, you can't! (I just did a quick search and found over 70,000 photos since mid 2004)
So, no more than 1 a week, that is 7 days since your last image in this topic, let's see -
(a) Your photo that you really like
(b) A description of why this photo is so special to you.

To get the ball rolling...

This image was taken by me using the camera's timer, we had just come down from the summit of Mt Geryon north via a trip to Lake Helios (a place we were at 364 days prior), heading back to camp and stopped here for this photo opportunity. It's a day before my birthday, we are climbing Walled Mtn tomorrow for my birthday, having done Hyperion the year before (hence the trip to Lake Helios), and Frenchmans summit the year before that. I did 4 summits in a row for birthdays, the final one in a row being Mt Anne.
This has been the background wallpaper of my laptop for more than a couple of years and I'm not sick of it. My wife and I...

I can't determine which of my images is my favourite bushwalking photo ... so I'd like to submit a portrait of my bushwalking buddy and faultless companion of the last 30 years.





Her name is Wild Heidi. We have seen some amazing places together and she has even swum in the South Tasman Sea ... twice.

Warren.

Great stuff, what a wonderful way to spend your birthdays! Keep up the good work! Granny

Hi Warrnh

Great to see the old girl is still out there. Cameras in general do a fantastic job and though treated with care appear to survive the most horrendous conditions. I loved an article many years ago when National Geographic's top photographers wrote about their cameras. One thing came out above all other, reliability. Harks back to a simpler age when something only have to do its job well to be cherished as opposed to meeting the latest "specifications" or "trends", what every they might be.

Cheers Brett

Brett wrote:Harks back to a simpler age when something only have to do its job well to be cherished as opposed to meeting the latest "specifications" or "trends", what every they might be.

Well put Brett

cameras don't survive bass straight swims tho...

Well, no one seems to have contributed to what could be such a great thread?
I'll throw one of my all time favourite photos up.
Not necessarily the greatest photo by someone who certainly isn't anything more than a "point & shooter" ;
this photo however sums up for me the majesty, drama, light & wild remoteness of the places we all love to love.
This photo is perhaps even more poignant as it is overlooking the endangered valleys of the Florentine from the summit of the Needles.
This trip was a quick dash to the SW after work a couple of years ago, we got to the summit just in time for the sunset to reveal all its grandeur.
I took many photos on this occasion but this one, dark & foreboding with the rays of light silhouetting the trees sums up the beauty of nature for me.

This photo is great .

Sweet photos,

I also have a tremendous amount of landscape pictures to go through but this pics has special meaning.



Its one of my beloved boots which are my most loved piece of kit (followed closely by my pack). The pic was taken in Canada while camping on a rock outcrop above the glacier. They have now walked at amazing places all over our globe. They are made by Gronell in Italy in the old school double stitch Norwegian welt. They are all leather including the lining and have not given me a single blister. From creek bashing my way up the Cox's River to scrambling remote peaks in Canada. When these boots catch the westbound they will have a special place in my heart and will got straight to the pool room to hang proudly on the wall.

(with the strong dollar I have a new pair of meindl perfekts on the way to join the team but not replace)

My favourite photo is the wall paper on my other computer. It's not a particularly good shot, but it does feature my beloved battered, tattered, patched, grotty old bush hat, hanging on a pole of the horse yards at one of the Bogong High Plains huts - Kelly's, I think. It's all I have left of that hat, and I still get a bit misty-eyed whenever I look at that shot.

great pic, Stu

OK so many to choose from.
Probably have to go with this one though. Later afternoon at Hidden Bay, Beautiful summers day, winds calm on one of the most gorgeous and remote beaches i've ever been to.

This is one of my favourite photos and it is of my daughter and me on the Square Rock walking track Namadgi NP 1990 ACT, my daughter turns 21 next week.

I like that one Tony.

In a similar vein... I don't know if I could pick a favourite, but my wife tells me she wants this photo of my daughter and I enlarged and framed, and I agree that is is a good picture:

Hi Nik,

I agree with your wife it is a good picture, in some ways it is a pity that kids grow up.

At the moment due to her uni studies my daughter is not that interested in bushwalking but she has trekked the Inca trail in Peru and Base camp in Nepal.


Tony

Tony wrote:Hi Nik,

I agree with your wife it is a good picture, in some ways it is a pity that kids grow up.

At the moment due to her uni studies my daughter is not that interested in bushwalking but she has trekked the Inca trail in Peru and Base camp in Nepal.


Tony

Nice! My parents are currently in Nepal visiting a Nepalese family they're friends with (the family live in Tasmania most of the time now). I don't think they'll get to base camp, or anything like that, but they can see Everest from the top of the hill where they're staying.

Just cos its the best photo in my collection and it represents such a great place to be.

From the Western Arthurs

ILUVSWTAS wrote:OK so many to choose from.
Probably have to go with this one though. Later afternoon at Hidden Bay, Beautiful summers day, winds calm on one of the most gorgeous and remote beaches i've ever been to.

Your pic is amazing, like seeing the gate to 2 different worlds.

Thanks,

Alone in The Labyrinth. I had Lake Elysia to myself.
A sunny afternoon wandering around taking photos followed by a great sunset.
What more could you want?

Nice one there mjd! It is one of my favorite places...

An image that I've been reflecting on lately is this one....



Taken from my South West Cape circuit walk.

Definitely in the top 3 for walks that I have done, perhaps not so much for the walk itself but the time we had on that walk.
Having the southwest corner of Tasmania to ourselves for two weeks was pretty special, this moment when we are walking along Window Pane Bay lives strong in my mind and is one of two reflections I have on this particular day when I go to a "happy place" in my mind.

Enjoy "Window Pane Bay", the sun sets out to sea, the creek quickly but quietly cuts through the beach, the view of Southwest Cape Range in the background which we have just descended from, Southwest Cape just visible in the distance along the coastline, gentle waves lapping at the beach, a fishing boat moored in the bay, pristine sand that seems so untouched you really can imagine you are the first to ever be here.
Words cannot explain, I think you'd need to have experienced something like the feeling to be able to relate to it. I hope the images I share go some way to taking you there in your mind.

Wow, love that Lake Elysia or however you spell it. What an interesting thread. So many favourites, so many memories. I'm going to cheat and put two in. One because I loved being there and the other because it always reminds me of the bushwalk logo. Cheers all

It changes day to day, but today it's this one

Taken last June on an Olympus E-3 + ZD 12-60 SWD at the Artist's Pool, Cradle Mt.

The Bolton Beach tracks actually look like fossilized tracks -who knew vibram soles had been around for so long

Time for another: Dawn at Citadel Shelf in the Frankland Range. Looking across The Moat with The Lion on the left and the higher of the two Citadels on the right.

Happy memories eh MJD...as good as a trip could get was the Franklands
Hoping my new camera will be here for the Stars trip next weekend.

I thought you were waiting til next year to get that?? *&^%$#@! nice!! Cant wait to see how it goes!!

Not my most favourite photo taken but one I like and have as my current desktop image. Pity they loose quite a bit of detail compressing them down for the WEB.

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

I've got lots of shots from all over the place, but my computer desktops have both got Tarkine images on them.