/// Wild Tracks - Landscape Photography by Eduardo Gallo

WILD TRACKS

Passion for Landscape Photography

Español
English
Freycinet National Park, TAS, Australia

March 2011

Freycinet National Park, TAS, Australia

Canon 5D MkII & EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, 1/125s f/5.6 ISO400 @28mm

Google Earth for this photo
PERSPECTIVE

Picturesque Wineglass Bay, with its transparent blue waters and crescent shaped sandy beach, ranks high on the preferred destinations of any visitor to Tasmania. Situated on the isthmus joining the Freycinet peninsula with the mainland, on the mostly dry and sunny eastern side of the island, it possesses all the attributes of a paradisaical beach except for the not so warm waters. Or more realistically, it has remained paradisaical precisely because of the water temperature. In any case, nowdays one can hardly imagine the rotting whale carcasses and stench that filled the beach not so long ago.

I wanted to capture the classical view of Wineglass Bay on the right, Promise Bay on the left, the lagoon in the middle, and the slightly pink granite Hazards on the back. So I loaded water for two days (the peninsula springs are all dry in late summer), crossed the Hazards through the low pass in the center of the image, walked along the beach, and climbed the long slopes of Mount Graham to camp less than 15 minutes from the summit, which I climbed both at sunset and sunrise. The weather was warm and pleasant, with the only exception of the very top of the mountain, where a strong cold wind blew nonstop. That meant I could not extend the tripod legs, and had to shoot wide open to minimize blurring while crouching behind one of the summit boulders to gain some protection from the wind. The above picture was taken a short while after sunrise, which was more beautiful than the previous night sunset.

Previous

ALL PHOTOS

Next
Previous

DOWN UNDER PHOTOS

Next
Previous

YEAR 2011 PHOTOS

Next