1. The Franklin River at Rock Island Bend, 1974
This photo was used for the first poster in the campaign to save the river. Rock Island (on the right) became the centrepiece of Peter Dombrovskis' celebrated masterpiece, taken in 1979. 25 x 38 cm


2. The Cataract Gorge in flood
Launceston, 1974 25 x 38 cm


3. Mushroom Rock
Near Glen Innes, NSW 25 x 38 cm


4. The rabbiter
Liffey, Tasmania, 1974 25 x 38 cm


5. "Old Jack" as his fellow fisherman called him before he retired.
Liffey, 1988
After my mother died, my father spent his summers in an old shed behind my house at Liffey. In defiance of doctors, he had a sign on the wall: "Eat more butter and salt'. 51 x 70 cm


6. Mr Frank Page milking his cow
Liffey, 1979 25 x 25 cm


7. Many new Tasmanians took up organic rural life in the "Flower Power' 1960's and '70s.
This is Denise at Liffey, 1979 25 x 25 cm


8 Spring at Liffey2, 1981
The track up Taytitikitheeker (Drys Bluff, 1340 metres) goes past my house so I have a sign on the gate: "Trespassers Welcome."
This photo is the only one taken from a tripod (using time lapse: press the button and run through the daffodils!).

25 x 25 cm


9. The Franklin River upstream of the Irenabyss 2
I took this photo in 1980, on my fifth rafting trip down the river, which was in great peril from a series of proposed dams. On 1st July 1983, the High Court ruling saved the river. It is now part of the famed Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, bringing jobs and prosperity to West Coast Tasmania. 25 x 25cm


10. Morning glow in the Western Arthurs
Now in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. 1976 25 x 38 cm


11. The Coruscades rapids in the Great Ravine
Tasmania's deepest gorge, Franklin River, 1977
25 x 38 cm


12. An aerial view of Lake Salome and the Walls of Jerusalem
Frosty January morning, 1974 25 x 38 cm


13. Meander Falls
Boxing Day, 1974 25 x 38 cm


14. The Meander Falls tumble off the Great Western Tiers Near Deloraine, and one of Tasmania's highest waterfalls, 1974
25 x 38 cm


15. Ice flow at cliff's edge
Drys Bluff, Liffey 25 x 38 cm


16. Tasmania's iconic Cradle Mountain
25 x 38 cm


17. Rafter on the Picton River, 1993 25 x 38 cm


18. Iguazu Falls
Argentinian side, 1993 51 x 70 cm 0


19. Iris River
Near Cradle Valley, after heavy rain 25 x 38 cm



20. Rockpool reeds
Apsley River, Douglas-Apsley National Park
25 x 38 cm


21. Pond lilies
Randalls Bay 51 x 70 cm


22. Pond-side rushes
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


23. Looking up into the sun-dappled fronds of a rare soft-leafed treefern at Liffey
This one was tall enough to be out of reach to cattle when the forest was felled early last century. Now the forest is growing back and the treefern's future is secure. 25 x 38 cm


24. Calla lilies at Paul's garden gate
Randalls Bay

These beautiful marsh plants are from northern Europe. 25 x 38 cm


25. Native laurel leaf
below Julia Falls, Styx River Valley 25 x 38 cm


26. Fern leaves
Upper Florentine Valley
The woodchippers plan to obliterate this dell in 2007. 25 x 38 cm


27. This vigorous young Eucalyptus Regnans is 91 metres tall. It is in a logging target zone in the Styx River's Valley of the Giants. 25 x 38 cm


28. The Valley of the Giants, Styx River
Some of these trees are near 100 metres high and 500 years old. They are rising, in the morning mist, out of a carpet of rainforest. Every week more of this forest splendour, together with its wildlife, is destroyed for a pittance, injecting huge tonnages of carbon into the atmosphere.
I cannot rest until this vandalism stops.
51 x 70 cm


29. Logging road in unprotected forest, Styx Valley What if this were for tourists, not chainsaws? 25 x 38 cm


30. Spider's Web
Tarkine buttongrass meadow 25 x 38 cm


31. Backyard Mist
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


32. Morning has broken
Lithgow pine forest, NSW, 1972 25 x 38 cm


33. Sunset looking ashore over Maroochydore, Qld This preceded Cyclone Yolande in 1971. I was a ship's doctor on the passenger liner S.S. "Northern Star' 25 x 38 cm


34. Hailstorm
Shannon Vale, NSW, 1965
My mother grew up here. As a boy I planted the poplars (near left).
25 x 38 cm


35. Aunt Lily and her jersey cow under the old pear tree at Shannon Vale, near Glen Innes, NSW.
Lillian Walton was born in the great drought of 1902. This photo is taken in the drought of 1965. There were many good green years between the droughts. 25 x 38 cm


36. Leading a mob of 10,000 sheep to the highlands for summer agistment.
Victoria Valley, Tasmania, 1972 51 x 70 cm


37. The lady and her chooks
Old grocery shop, Pontville 25 x 38 cm


38. My Liffey home beneath Drys Bluff
1970s 25 x 38 cm


39. My front steps
Liffey 25 x 38 cm


40. On the plain atop Drys Bluff
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Note how lightly coloured the wombat is at this alpine altitude. 25 x 38 cm


41. This Tasmanian Devil cantered up around a sand dune lake, after we had frightened away some ducks. I had the camera at eye level, stood stock still and waited until, for an instant, she stopped before rushing away. We were searching for the elusive Tasmanian Tiger. Tarkine coast, 1973 25 x 38 cm


42. The typical devil's footprints pattern on the beach The more aligned toes denote a front foot. 25 x 38 cm


43. Wallaby in the snow
Cradle Valley, 1970s 25 x 38 cm


44. Panda in the Wolun Reserve China, 1998
While a crowd gathered to watch a nearby panda being fed bamboo by the keepers, I could not move beyond this one in its concrete cell. Its message was unmistakable. 25 x 38 cm


45. Tiger snake barring my way
She eventually decided that the approaching ogre was too unsightly and crawled swiftly away.
Garden Island Creek, near Cygnet 25 x 38 cm


46. Ducklings galore
Vermont Road, Launceston, 1972 25 x 38 cm


47. Duck and eight ducklings
Derwent River, Wrest Point, Hobart 25 x 38 cm


48. Flying duck orchid
Caleana Major, Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


49. Ten white flowers
Raglan Range, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 25 x 38 cm


50. Diminutive alpine tea-tree
Upper Ouse valley, Central Plateau, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 25 x 38 cm


51. Rock crevice berries
Mother Lords Plains, Central Plateau 25 x 38 cm


 

 


 

52. Daisies and flowering cushion plant
Central Plateau, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 25 x 38 cm


53. Tasmanian Waratah
Drys Bluff, Liffey, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
25 x 38 cm


54. Tasmanian Waratahs
Drys Bluff, Liffey, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
25 x 38 cm


55. Paper Daisies
Raglan Range, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 25 x 38 cm


56. The mountains of central Tasmania on a hazy summer evening, 2007
This aerial shot looks north across the headwater catchments of the Pieman, Franklin and Derwent Rivers. Mt Ossa is just right of centre.
25 x 38 cm


57. Five hues of Tasmanian mountain berries
Lots of berries in May, lots of snow in August.
Tumbledown wilderness, Central Plateau 51 x 70 cm


58. Dreamtime
Sandstone overhang, South Bruny Island Canvas 51 x 70 cm


59. Rock Lichen 5
Bruny Island Canvas 51 x 70 cm


60. Beach flare
Piccaninny Point, East Coast
(a) Canvas 51 x 70 cm (b) 25 x 38 cm


61 Rock Lichen 6
Bruny Island Canvas
Canvas 51 x 70 cm


62. Rock brood
Bay of Fires 25 x 38 cm


63. Granite boulders and a sapphire sea
Bay of Fires 25 x 38 cm


64. The Eddystone Light 25 x 38 cm


65. Lichen-encrusted boulders
Bay of Fires 25 x 38 cm


66. Shells on the beach
Bay of Fires
The blue plastic ring-in is just as I found it.
25 x 38 cm


67. Sandstone under cloud
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


68. Sandstone sun-lit
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


69. Wild figures
Sandstone overhang, Bruny Island 51 x 70 cm


70. Limestone cliffs
Like those on the lower Franklin and Gordon Rivers, but this is in the tropical Giecke Gorge on the Fitzroy River, Kimberley region, WA.
25 x 38 cm


71. Rock platform
Near Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


72. Sand waves
Piccaninny Point 25 x 38 cm


73. Sand hills
Piccaninny Point 25 x 38 cm


74. Sand pattern
Ocean Beach near Strahan 25 x 38 cm


75. Stream and sand
Ocean Beach, near Strahan 51 x 70 cm


76. A tree from the sea
Stewart Island, New Zealand
51 x 40 cm ($750)


77. Echoes of Lord of the Rings
These faces appeared on the beach at Oban, Stewart Island (in the far south of New Zealand) after a storm. 51 x 40 cm ($750)


78. A child's footprint
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


79. Tasmanian Devil footprints on a dried tarn's mud pan
Upper Ouse valley, Central Plateau, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 51 x 70 cm


80. My foot
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


81. Pacific Gull chicks reared on this predator-free sandstone outcrop
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


82. Kelp 1
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


83. Kelp 2
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


84. Sea Bramble
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


85. Rock lichen 1
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


86. Rock lichen 2
Bruny Island Canvas 51 x 70 cm


87. Rock lichen 3
Bruny Island Canvas 51 x 70 cm


88. Rock lichen 4
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm



89. Molluscs
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


90. The mythic whale
Sandstone cliff, Buckland Gorge 51 x 70 cm


91. Sandstone stencil
Randalls Bay 25 x 38 cm


92. Black swans on the Derwent
Hobart 51 x 70 cm


93. Rescued historic landscape
Blackswan Lagoon, Recherche Bay and Mt. La Perouse.
In 1793 Bruni D'Entrecasteaux's scientific expedition had many meetings with the 40 or so Palawa people who lived by this pristine beach. There were feasts, athletic contests, musical interludes and, when the French departed, great sadness on both sides. In 2006 the forested peninsula (centre) was saved from woodchipping through the generosity of Dick and Pip Smith and many other donors. It is now an historic and scenic reserve protected by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. 25 x 38 cm


94. Lake Pokhara
Nepal 25 x 38 cm


95. A millpond morning
At Fotheringate Bay, Flinders Island, 2007 25 x 38 cm


96. Granite coastline
Flinders Island, 2007 25 x 38 cm


97. Ocean falling inland
Near Mt. Strzelecki, Flinders Island 25 x 38 cm


98. Sand swirl
Fotheringate Beach, Flinders Island 25 x 38 cm


99. Boulder in seagrass
Bruny Island 25 x 38 cm


100. From the Franklin River swing bridge
25 x 38 cm


101. This grand Eucalyptus regnans grove called Going. going..gone by the Wilderness Society, will be destroyed in the coming months unless those protesting to save it are successful. The grove is in the heart of the Styx River‚ Valley of the Giants in central Tasmania. 2007
51 x 70 cm


102. The Styx River Valley of the Giants. 2007  Canvas 51 x 70 cm


103. Wybalenna  Chapel window, Flinders Island.  2007 25 x 38 cm


104. Winter morning, Randalls Bay, Tasmania. June 2007 25 x 38 cm


105. Liffey Falls. 2007 25 x 38 cm


106. At Liffey Falls. 2007
Photo Paul Thomas 25 x 38 cm


107. Banksia birds on a bough, Randalls Bay. 2007 25 x 38 cm


108. Styx River Valley of the Giants. Mt Field on extreme right. 2007 25 x 38 cm


109. Frosted rainforest. Upper Florentine Valley, Tasmania. 2007 25 x 38 cm


110. Shepherd Paul Thomas and sheep, Randalls Bay, Tasmania. Winter 2007 25 x 38 cm


111. Cloudy mountains. Sand pattern near Randalls Bay. 25 x 38 cm