Sub-title: Journeys into the Wild by Peter Dombrovskis
ISBN: 9-780642-279071
First published 2017
187 pages
Cover photograph: Morning Light on Little Horn, Tasmania
Publisher: NLA Publishing
6/5 Stars
A wonderful journey into the heart of Tasmania. Carefully photographed landscapes fill the book, glorious trees, foliage, cascades, mountain-scapes and sea-scapes. Although Peter does photograph Fiji, Borneo, Queensland, it is Tasmania where most photos are from.
The following photo, ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend, Tasmania’ convinced the Australian public to prevent the construction of another major dam in Tasmania. It has lost none of its power to inspire since it was first shot in 1980:
Vegetation was a favorite subject of Peters – he could see the patterns, the maths within…how closely these match our fractals of today?
Below is ‘Autumn colour of a deciduous beech’, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
The joy of his photography is that it speaks loudly to us, and allows our own imagination to take part in the narrative. Below is a simple tree in the rain forest: ‘Myrtle Tree, Mount Anne, Tasmania’.
And his final composition, has a violence, almost a city-scape. Can you see sky-scrapers? Can you see castles and battlements? Can you see a Winding road? Eldorado? It is Mount Hayes, Tasmania – the last photo Peter ever took.
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