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Luke O'Brien Photography

Luke O'Brien Photography

Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area expanded!

June 27, 2013
Some great news this week for forest conservation in Tasmania – the World Heritage Commitee meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia has passed a recommendation to extend Tasmanias World Heritage Area by 172,500 hectares. The new boundaries will now include some of Tasmania’s most pristine wild forests such as the Styx Valley, the Upper Florentine Valley and...Read More

Mt Chokai, Japan

June 22, 2013
Mt Chokai is a 2236 metre high mountain which stands on the border of Yamagata and Akita prefecture in northern Japan. The peak is covered in metres of snow throughout winter and is basically inaccesible. From spring the snow melts and fills the surrounding gorges and waterfalls with water. In summer there are quite a...Read More

Tohoku Rokkonsai Festival. Fukushima June 2013

June 3, 2013
Japan is famous for its summer festivals and every prefecture has its own unique one. Since the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, the six northern prefectures (Fukushima, Yamagata, Miyagi, Iwate, Akita and Aomori) have started holding all 6 prefectural festivals in one city, in an event known as Rokkonsai. In summer 2011 , the first...Read More

Tamar Valley: Georgetown & Low Head

May 29, 2013
The Tamar Valley stretches north from Launceston to Bass Strait and includes some wonderful historic and gourmet traveling in the north of Tasmania. There are some really nice locations to shoot along the river, with brightly coloured lichen on rocks and reedy marshes along the river. At the mouth of the Tamar is Low Head...Read More

New Tasmanian Photography May 2013

May 27, 2013
This months new Tasmanian photography is mostly from my Autumn trip to Cradle Mountain but there are a couple of new versions of my aurora australis photos in the mix too. This first shot captures the morning mist as it drifts across Marions Lookout and across the face of Cradle Mountain, captured just before the...Read More

Camera Tuition Hobart

May 26, 2013
Anyone in Hobart looking for a little one on one tuition to get to know their digital SLR a little better should contact me for some one on one tuition. One on one tuition is different from my range of photography tours and workshops in that we will meet at a mutually convenient time and...Read More

Macro photography with flowers: Pink Lily

May 25, 2013
Here are a couple of macro photographs of a pink lily I took earlier in the year, using my 100mm f2.8 macro lens. I enjoy the effect (and challenge!) of extremely shallow depth of field when shooting macro, and flowers are a perfect subject. The tips of the long stamen of the lily disappearing into...Read More

Aurora Australis Tasmania May 2013: Cradle Mountain!

May 22, 2013
I am sure regular readers know of my obsession with the aurora australis as many of my posts since last spring would attest 🙂 Early this month I was shooting the autumn colours at Cradle Mountain and in the very early hours of May the 2nd the aurora australis popped up behind the snowy crags...Read More

Crater Falls

May 17, 2013
Crater Falls is one of the only waterfalls in the Cradle Mountain day walk area. The walk begins at Ronney Creek and you will in fact be walking along the first section of the world famous Overland Track! The first 10 minutes or so is along a nice flat boardwalk through a wide open valley...Read More

Ross Bridge

May 9, 2013
Ross is a delightful small town on Tasmania’s Midlands Highway which links the major cities of Hobart and Launceston. It is a great place to break up the drive from north to south and has some great convict built landmarks such as the Ross Bridge. The talking point of the Ross Bridge is the intricately...Read More
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