A few of my favourite things...
I'm still not quite getting the scans I want, but I thought I'd go ahead and post some Australia pictures, anyway...
These were taken in Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania's main tourist attraction. Photos of Cradle Mountain itself (which I climbed!) will follow later, but I wanted to start off with some pictures of what I arguably liked best about Australia: dead gum trees. Due to a major drought in the nineties, Cradle Mountain National Park is full of them. They're all sitting there, waiting for dead-tree fetishists like myself to snap pictures of their ghostly white splendour. Naturally, I was only too happy to oblige.
The above photo (the scan of which looks out of focus, even though the slide seems sharp) was taken "in the wild", but the park also has some well-maintained boardwalks right next to the main thoroughfare. One of these boardwalks takes you through a whole forest of dead gum trees. Obviously, I had to take some pictures of that, too...
There were times I felt as though I was walking through an enchanted forest or a dreamscape. It was that odd.
Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania, Australia, 2007
Olympus OM-10 + Fuji Provia 100F