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Rosedale Rocks Pigeon House from The Castle
Two Trees on Mt Sturgiss Morton National Park
Two Trees on Mt Sturgiss
Morton National Park

This is one of the first decent images I ever made with my Tachihara 4x5 field camera. In 1995, Rob Gray and I hiked in to the Styles Creek area from Newhaven Gap, and then made the slightly perilous scramble up onto Mt Sturgiss.

It's taken with a very wide angle lens (65mm - equivalent to about a 19mm lens on a 35mm-frame camera), which only just covered the 4"x5" frame. I was just getting the hang of large-format photography at the time, and the technical quality of the negative won't win any prizes, but I still like the composition. You can see there's quite a bit of falloff in the corners, which I've partially corrected, and the whole negative is a bit thin.

Rob also got a great shot from about the same spot, but using a very different field of view.

This image also appears in Walks › Budawangs › Wog-Wog to Styles Creek
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