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Two members, myself and johnd, hooked up in Hobart with a good friend of mine (who owns a D200) and our wives. We went to an area known as the Lost World on Mt Wellington. It was a great day, we had a fantastic time, met some lovely people and are all looking forward to meeting up again sometime.
Enjoyed coffee and dessert at a winery afterwards, too! (and wine, of course)

Here are a few photos from our D70 from that trip.


This image was taken by my wife using the D70 and Nikon 18-200 VR lens. ISO 200 F7.1, 1/13 second exposure, hand held.
Gotta love VR!
This was taken at 11:39 am. Cold up there.



This image taken by me using the Nikon 105 macro, 8 second exposure, f45. Camera sitting on ground, lens propped up with various twigs and whatever else I could find. Took about 5 minutes to set the photo up. Using the timer at 2 seconds to avoid camera shake with shutter button(too lazy to get remote out). Looking forward to the D200 and Mirror Lock-Up.



Again my macro lens. F14, 1/2 second exposure, tripod. Perhaps could have done with a little more DOF to make the top of the trumpet more sharp, but it was a compromise because I was trying to blur the background to help it stand out. Still quite acceptable I think. DOF preview button very handy!



These little things look great. I love the macro lens, especially on alpine vegetation. a 10 second exposure, f45. The NEF of this at full size looks fantastic, can't wait to see what my D200 will do for this kind of shot.

What Adam didn't mention is that he and Tony carried in 2 bottles of wine and 2 boxes of wine glasses into the Lost World. I was gobsmacked when the wine and glasses came out at lunch time. It was a real battle getting camera gear and self in without being smashed on the rocks below. Here is evidence of the wine and the view.




This was the sign at the top of the descent. Note the icon second from left on the bottom of the sign. The 15 minutes was garbage. It took about an hour to do each of the descent and the ascent.


The place is full of fungi. An example of some of the fungi:


Another shot with Tony silhoutted against the view.
This was taken by Adam using my d200 with my 50/1.4. Now that got the lust juices flowing


See, your famous Tony. Now you'll have to join the forum

All in all a great day and especially great meeting new photog people.
If any of you DSLRUsers are in town, I'll take you there, but it was a rough walk.

More images in this gallery:
http://johndargue.smugmug.com/gallery/1588004


Cheers
John

Sweet. Looks like a nice day out. I love the product shot of the wine and glasses with Hobart in the background.

I'll be in Tassie later this year buying a house to live in so i might drop a line beforehand. A good excuse for another micromeet perhaps.

Killakoala wrote:Sweet. Looks like a nice day out. I love the product shot of the wine and glasses with Hobart in the background.

I'll be in Tassie later this year buying a house to live in so i might drop a line beforehand. A good excuse for another micromeet perhaps.

Sounds like a vrey good excuse Steve.

Cheers
David

i guess they have wheelchair access.

A beautiful place. Sounds like a top way to spend the day. How was the wine? Bit chilly?

Willy wombat wrote:A beautiful place. Sounds like a top way to spend the day

That's what I love about Tassie - we can do this sort of thing nearly every day, so many fantastic and different places to go, things to see.

Willy wombat wrote:How was the wine? Bit chilly?

That comment reminds me of a walk my wife and I did to Marions Lookout one day, again with a bottle. It was a foul day, had our storm gear on but persisted in sheltering behind a rock to have lunch and a drink. And take a photo or 3...
That day the wine was a bit warm to start off with, but chilled nicely...

On this walk, by lunchtime the weather was quite mild considering. Once the cloud came across, things cooled off a bit.

The wine was quite lovely. Nearly all Tassie wine is. Though for most members I suppose the only Tassie wine you can get up there on the big island is Ninth Island Pinot. A great marketing success but just another wine compared to some we have down here.
The winery we went to afterwards was Meadowbank. Their premium pinot is called Henry James. Quite something.