In my fiftieth year I did the three day walk of the Milford Track in New Zealand with two friends. It was wonderful but although it made me want more it never happened.
I took just a few photos on that walk, but as I found out then, it's not easy to combine serious landscape photography with a demanding trail walk particularly when, as is almost always the case, you are walking with others.
I do envy the brilliant Australian photographer, Peter Dombrovskis, his exploration of Tasmania's wild places. His photographs are superb. He usually walked alone carrying carrying camping equipment and heavy photographic gear because his style of slow considered photography meant carrying a tripod and a heavy camera which used sheet film.
I am very fortunate to own a copy of Dombrovskis's Photographic Collection -a mighty tome with beautiful prints on art paper. It is now out of print but I managed to buy a mint copy from a book dealer in Hobart, Tasmania last year. The photos are works of art and so is the book.
Looking at it earlier this week prompted me to take another look at the previously unseen wilderness photos I took in Tasmania last year. I am no Peter Dombrovskis and we did not venture off the beaten tracks so my photos are a pale imitation of the master's but here they are.
Leica Q2 photos
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