Echo Point on Lake St Clair, Tasmania

Instead of usual 3-4 hours hike needed to reach Echo point from the visitors centre I opted for a different option today. I launched my kayak from Frankland beach located on southern shore of the lake and after 11 km of relatively light downwind paddle I reached small landing beach near the Echo point jetty.

Unmistakeable, sharp point of Mount Ida seen across the lake immediately attracted my attention. For a while I searched for a suitable composition that would encapsulate all of the landscape elements and describe the feeling this place generated within me. After some exploration along the lake edge I discovered this decaying old tree and decided to incorporate it in composition. Lake St Clair owns its existence to past times when traveling glaciers carved Tasmanian landscapes forming many of it’s land features we admire today.

For last couple of years I forced myself to compose my images only in landscape orientation. I wanted to create more uniform body of work which I thought would be easier to exhibit , print or display on website. Effectively what I was doing was imposing artificially created limitations to my images. When compositional elements within those images demanded different orientation I simply didn’t photograph them.

This portrait oriented image abandons those artificially applied limitations allowing me to start capturing more diversified portfolio of images.