We trust everyone has had a great Christmas & New Year break and is looking forward to seeing what the new year will bring. We have started the year nicely with a night in the mountains around Lake St Clair – pics coming soon!
Thanks again for all the support we have received over the past 14 months in Melville St, and we look forward to continuing to share my photographic journeys around Tasmania and elsewhere with you!
Luke & Midori
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Tasmanian Landscapes Gallery
46 Melville St, Hobart TAS 7000
Monday to Friday 10:00~6:00
Saturday 10:00~3:00
Closed Sundays/Public Holidays
Ph: (03) 6231 9964
email: info@lukeobrien.com.au
NEW!
We now have a new range of Greeting Cards available through the Gallery and online.
The Size is 183 x 118 mm; all cards are blank inside. Envelopes included.
View the Range of Cards here
This time last year I was invited to join Environmental Sculptor Tyrone Jaspers on King Island for a few days to photograph some of his creations in the dramatic coastal environment of the island. It was mid-winter, and my first visit to the island (most famous for cheese, surfing and kelp) so I was looking forward to the visit. As well as shooting for Tyrone, there was plenty of time to sneak in a sunset or two, the most success coming actually on night 1, on Martha Lavinia beach.
Dusk Scene, Martha Lavinia Beach, King Island
Late afternoon light on King Island's Martha Lavinia Beach
Late afternoon light on the south end of King Island
Full Moon rises over King Island
Mid Winter in Hobart isn’t usually the warmest place on the planet, but the annual mid winter bonfire warmed things up a little last Saturday night. Here’s a few shots of the event, which started with a candle-lit procession into Salamanca, and then the lighting of the bonfire.
The candle-lit procession enters Salamanca
...the bonfire is set alight...
...and explodes into life!
The flames dance as the fire settles down
This months featured photographs come from the South Coast of Tasmania, from what turned out to be quite a squally evening on the beach, with persistent showers only allowing a brief shoot in front of the striking silhouette of Lion Rock.
Lion Rock, Dawn on Tassie's South Coast
Lion Rock has a very distinctive silhouette, and located nice and close to shore means great movement of the water over the rocky foreshore. The showers coming and going made this shoot tricky, but I was still able to get a nice 20 second exposure of the surf crashing around the rock and the foreshore, with the dark clouds and lack of evening light making for a dramatic capture.
Lion Rock, Evening View
The following morning dawned much calmer, with the squalls moving out to sea. The morning in fact turned on a nice stormy atmosphere, complete with rainbows and dark clouds on the horizon. In fact the morning images have turned out much darker and menacing than what conditions were actually like on the shore (although shooting the morning scenes did involve resigning myself to a soaked through pair of boots and socks for the return walk out)!
South Coast, Morning Squalls
All images are available through 46 Melville St or online, via the Portfolio pages!
Luke
