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Luke O'Brien Photography

Luke O'Brien Photography

Cradle Mountain
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Cradle Mountain Rainforest Walks

July 31, 2025
The most often photographed scenes at Cradle Mountain are the classic “postcard” shots of the mountain and Dove Lake, with perhaps a rock here and/or a boatshed there. The “hidden” beauty at Cradle Mountain, and what makes it such a great place to photograph – in any weather – is the rainforest. What are the...Read More

Cradle Mountain Snow Day

July 19, 2024
Back in June I took a couple of guests from Singapore to Cradle Mountain for a 3 day photo trip and we were lucky enough to experience a delightful winter wonderland! On our final morning, we woke early to see snow all over the car and the vegetation around the hotel but luckily the roads...Read More

Cradle Mountain Festival of Fagus 2023

March 1, 2023
In conjunction with the Cradle Mountain Hotels “Festival of Fagus” I am very excited to be presenting a day photographing Tasmania’s botanical wonder again in autumn 2023. This years date will be Saturday April 22. Every year for a couple of weeks each side of ANZAC day the mountains of western Tasmania glow with autumnal...Read More

Cradle Mountain Photography Tour & Workshop

October 17, 2022
I run highly personalised Cradle Mountain photography tours to Tasmania’s most celebrated natural icon for one or two guests on demand. The tour is a 2 night/3 day trip to one of Tasmania’s most popular landscape photography locations. What do we photograph on one of these tours? Upon arrival we will visit some of the...Read More
Sunrise and mist at Cradle Mountain

Sunrise Ronny Creek

May 31, 2021
I think its fair to say I have shot more than my fair share of sunrises down at Dove Lake over the years, so on a recent trip I stayed back at Ronny Creek and caught some very nice dawn light and mist over Crater Lake and Marions Lookout from Waldheim. It was a wonderful...Read More
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Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake at night

January 8, 2021
There is nothing quite like Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake on a clear night. It doesn’t happen too often but sometimes “the stars align” (pardon the pun) and you have a night like this one… These shots are from August 2019. The image above shows the Milky Way in the western sky. The biggest white...Read More

One frozen morning

July 31, 2020
One frozen morning at Cradle Mountain recently… This was the scene for some guests on a private 3 day photography workshop recently. We drove into Dove Lake for sunrise over the -5 degree landscape. In the pre-dawn twilight we photographed the icy vegetation, including the buttongrass. There was absolutley no wind, and seeing the frozen...Read More
King Billy Track at Cradle Mountain

King Billy Track

March 31, 2020
The King Billy track is a wonderful short walk which starts and finishes at the Cradle Mountain Lodge – although you don’t strictly need to be a guest of the hotel to stretch your legs on the track. It is also a good spot for fungi too so if the quarantine situation loosens in the...Read More
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Marions Lookout Hike

September 12, 2019
The Marions Lookout hike at Cradle Mountain is great for those who want to push themselves just that little bit more than the reasonably flat and family friendly Dove Lake circuit hike. Pack some lunch and allow yourself at least half a day – longer if the weather is good and you want to extend...Read More
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Snow at Dove Lake!

April 15, 2019
This is the scene we were greeted with at Dove Lake last week during this month’s Cradle Mountain photography workshop! As usual, we arrived early for our sunrise shoot, not knowing quite what to expect given the forecast. The drive to the lake was clear – no rain or snow hindered our progress. But when...Read More

Devils in the snow Cradle Mountain

June 15, 2017
Recently I had the rather unique experience of photographing the Tasmanian Devils in the snow at Cradle Mountain! My Cradle Mountain photography workshops all include a visit to the wonderful devil conservation park Devils@Cradle, and in early May our visit co-incided with a few flurries of snow. While snow might have made our sunrise sessions...Read More
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