Cradle Mountain Blue Hour.

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

The weather was at times a bit uncooperative and I made for the Cradle Mountain at 0330 in the morning. I was surprised when I got there by just how bright it was already. There was a waning moon and I expected that to illuminate the landscape but not that the sky would be so bright already. It was lovely and peaceful and there was a brisk breeze blowing from off the lake, so no glassy reflections there In all the total absence of cloud ( a complete difference from the day before!) made for a very average sunrise with no nice colouring of the landscape. Anyway here is the Blue hour just before dawn.

Sony A7S 20 secs, Samyang 14mm F2.8.

Thanks for looking

Paul

[gregbradley]

Wow, lovely.

Greg.

[dannat (Daniel)]

great composition, the tree at left seems a bit out of focus [have to expect that at f2.8 i suppose…overall it is very bright-close to full moon though

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great picture! It must have been a stunning experience to be there.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Nice photo Paul. It's a beautiful place.

Trev

[starmummy (Julie)]

just beautiful

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow, lovely.

Greg.

Originally Posted by dannat

great composition, the tree at left seems a bit out of focus [have to expect that at f2.8 i suppose…overall it is very bright-close to full moon though

There was a very stiff breeze blowing so the tree was moving, This would account for the soft focus.

Originally Posted by prokyon

Great picture! It must have been a stunning experience to be there.

Originally Posted by Regulus

Nice photo Paul. It's a beautiful place.

Trev

Originally Posted by starmummy

just beautiful

Thanks Guys, I just love this vista and would have loved the opportunity to take more pics.. definitely in my future plans.

[MichaelSW (Michael)]

Paul.

The Magellanic clouds and The Emu make me realise how fortunate I am to live in the Southern Hemisphere. And Cradle Mountain is a bushwalking memory I treasure.

Your photo is Just Loverly.

Think I'll take another look at my Tassie holiday photos.

Cheers.