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Wow, what an amazing collection of photos. This competition never ceases to amaze me!

What an extraordinarily difficult decision - I want to vote for just about all of them!

These photos are amazing and I would be proud to claim any of them.
It would also have been great to have witnessed the actual scenes.
Bushboot

Absolutely all stunning!!
I have the privledge to have been on 3 of the walks featured in these photos....

ILUVSWTAS wrote:Absolutely all stunning!!
I have the privledge to have been on 3 of the walks featured in these photos....

You obviously have time management down to an artform! Half ya luck

I probably wasnt as honest as I could have been there...

It was actually 3 shots from the same walk

Every one a winner!

Where is the 'Sprent Ascent'?

bushboot65 wrote:Where is the 'Sprent Ascent'?

When the comp closes we can find out who posted it and ask them.

Congratulations to the winner of the Tasmania February 2010 competition, with 10 votes:

• MJD - A bushwalker silhouetted against the morning mist in the Frankland range.

The key to all entries for this competition is below.

1 - Sunrise over Lake Pedder from the Frankland Range
by ILUVSWTAS.

2 - Sprent Ascent
by stepbystep.

3 - Curly reflections
by scrub master.

4 - Lichen on rocks - Grassy harbour
by jcr_au.

5 - A bushwalker silhouetted against the morning mist in the Frankland range.
by MJD.

6 - Sun and Moonrise From Thetis Saddle
by whynotwalk.

7 - Golden Silver
by geoskid.

8 - Sunrise from Mt Amos
by kramster.

Well done, MJD for winning this months comp, which features some serious competition. The final result was very close between 3 photos.

Yeah this months entries are amazing! so much atmosphere in them all

Yep the top 3 would have won any other month, just fantastic - couldn't possibly have voted for my own.
Well done MJD.

bushboot65 wrote:Where is the 'Sprent Ascent'?

Oh and mysteriously enough, Mt Sprent! Will post exact details of pic location in future

Congratulations to all.
Special mention of the fantastic image from scrub master of Lake Curly - beautiful penetration of water, nuance of colour and clarity of the distant view.
And exactly where was geoskid's photo from? Gorgeous

bushroot65

stepbystep missed your question. [Although I see he is contemplating it - crossover ]
The Sprent ascent is a climb to the top of Mt Sprent which is at the end of the road at the Serpentine Dam past Strathgordon.
The waterways in the background are all Lake Peddar.
There is a post on this particular journey: http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3536&p=39628#p39478

also http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3571&p=40459#p39952
http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3618&p=40801#p40628

eggs wrote:Congratulations to all.
Special mention of the fantastic image from scrub master of Lake Curly - beautiful penetration of water, nuance of colour and clarity of the distant view.
And exactly where was geoskid's photo from? Gorgeous

I feel like a bit of a fraud to dare enter the comp.
Congratulations MJD, lovely shot and would love to have been seeing the scene through the eyes of the person in your photo. Loved Lake Curly, would have got my vote had I not plugged my own
Eggs, mine was very early morning at Lake Silver on a Strollers walk, - I was half expecting to see two other entries from that morning. The conditions shown only lasted about half an hour, Flyfisher was up and about(and took photos), Sthughes may have been awake(not sure), and L8r dragged his butt out of bed .....well, L8r It was beautifully wierd, never seen anything like it. A real photographer would have made the most of the scene.The only conscious thing I did when I opened the tent (apart from wiping the sleep from my eyes), was lining up the two rocks in the foreground. Anyway - it's made me think about gearing up and skilling up.
I am glad it got more votes than Strollers present.

Hey, dont be so hard on yerself, you have 'the eye', thats what counts.... well done!...., now off you go and answer yer messages ; )

geoskid wrote:I feel like a bit of a fraud to dare enter the comp.

Don't sell yourself short, please keep entering. That shot is mesmerising . All the entries were an extremely high standard and it was difficult to pick one.

Geoskid,
I might get dragged over the coals for saying this, but my goal in landscape/wilderness photography is mainly time and place.
Most of the work for a good photo is getting the right light at the right angle.
That is why I prefer morning or evening.
There are nice photos in the middle of the day, but morning and evening is a different and often magical kind of light.
So you can measure some good photos by the effort you took to get there, the combination of the elements, and the discipline and good sense to actually get up to look at it!! And you took a great one.
[I took some shots of sunrise through cloud over the WA
http://bushwalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1985&p=16689&hilit=arthur#p16689
and called to my fellows "you really aught to get up and see this". Only 1 of the 3 responded - "OK" - but I never saw any of them... ]

Wow! Some pretty stiff competition in there. Love the shot of Curly and the Golden Silver. Certainly a good month to be out and about with a lot of morning and evening mist making for some very artistic shots. The bushwalker in the photo is none other than ILUVSWTAS whose entry had been taken a little earlier on the same day.

Sure was a great competition! Well done MJD!!!
Thanks for making me famous...

I have a similar shot of you in a similar position.

Some great shots this month. Loved the three favourites.

K.