Takayna - bits and bobs
$20.00 Coming Soon
Assorted Images 6 x 6 Photographs with white border - unframed - 11 images to choose from
available for purchase at Bob Brown Foundation - Art for Takayna - Nov 6 to 17, 2025. Abbotsford Convent - https://bobbrown.org.au/event/art-for-takayna/
These photographs were taken on a weeks hike through the Takayna Rainforest in Tasmania. It was a pack hike, a heavy pack hike - with a lump of a camera to top it off. My fat macro lens on top as cherry. Taking images with a macro lens in a dark forest was a challenge - especially without a tripod. You almost need to catch the rest between heart beats to take the shot without it blurring. This was one of those delusional moments in my life that I was so unprepared for in many ways, but I love throwing myself in off the deep end. But the forest and my pack gave me a whack around the ears on my first day in, as I clipped my toe stepping over a fallen tree. Smack down face first into the dirt, held down by my 20kg pack. I was like a turtle stuck on my back. It took me a few days for my body to adjust to the weight and the walking. But then it was one of those epiphany moments when you realise what you are capable of, more than you ever thought. And to be doing that in a infinite forest like this one, swimming through green wherever you looked. Bouncing as you walked over the hundreds of years of accumulated forest floor, your neck craning to see the tops of giant old gnarled myrtles and 800 year old ferns. Escorted by Yellow tailed black cockatoos, screeching like dinosaurs and following you as you walk.
