#tasmania Timeline - Takahē

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#introduction Hi everyone, I joined a while ago, but didn’t give it much a go, but want to now. All other social media pisses me off. I’m active in #Druidry with #OBOD Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids I #read a pretty wide genre of #books - both #fiction and #nonfiction . I’m from #uk but now live in #tasmania #australia. I’m a retired #mentalhealth #nurse and keen at #photography - pictures to follow. @chestas (my husband) and I both love to #travel

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Veil of Silence, 2024
#Tasmania

Thank you for the warm welcome everyone on my #introduction!

Good to be here and thanks all the helpful advice!

Standing on top of the mountain range, above a blanket of clouds and under a fading twilight, is a moment I wont soon forget. After a couple of tough days pushing through dense scrub I wasn’t sure if I’d make it. Finally arriving and being treated to the best sunset of the trip was the perfect reward.

#NaturePhotography #SunsetSaturday

Snow-dusted rocky plateau with a mountain peak rising above a sea of clouds at sunrise, bathed in soft purple and orange hues

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The trouble with ambitious #photography projects is they can become a bit like a curse. This is an image I’ve tried to capture 4 times across 3 years, and this – the second version – is still the best.

#astrophotography in some of the darkest skies on earth under #tasmania ‘s imposing Russell Falls in heavy flow was a hard thing to pull off. The window this shot works is only about an hour a night for a few weeks a year, and it’s rarely not cloudy.

#australia #waterfall #nature

The scene is focused on the full flow of Russell Falls, rimmed by prehistoric ferns and subalpine rainforest. The foreground has intense flow running over rocks, with significant spray from the falling water. In the canopy, the galactic core of the Milky Way sets behind the zenith of the falls.

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52d

Greetings Mestodon people!

It's #introduction time.

I'm a photographer based in Lutruwita / #Tasmania. The state of the environment is a mess, I shoot for a better tomorrow, for all the planet's inhabitants.

I'm drawn to the quiet places, the wild places and particularly Takayna / #Tarkine, a wild threatened region in the grasp of industry.

Through landscape, wildlife and activism imagery, I do what I can to produce meaningful work.

Let's connect.

tcooperphoto.com

Maytime Adrift. A calm, slow flowing river backed by a burnt silhouetted forest shrouded by the morning mist.

A cement-filled piano firmly embedded into the road, blocking access to a proposed tailings dam site that would flood a gondwanian rainforest valley. The piano is framed by raindrops, frozen in light.

Moonset over Tasmanian dolerite spires, during the depth of a mid-winter night. Blanketed by snow and ice and enveloped in cloud.

Rocky vegetated island protrude the tumbling waters of a wild, mist filled Tarkine river during an overcast dawn. The river is currently bounded by logging coupes and a mine site

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53d

Hi Mastodon, time for an #introduction !

With Instagram getting continually worse I thought I'd give this a go. Looks like a promising platform and I'm excited to see where it goes.

My name is Cru and I'm a landscape #photographer from Rainbow Beach, #Queensland #Australia

My photography is mostly #nature and #landscape images. I sell my images as prints and for licensed use. This past year, much of my images have been taken in #Tasmania.

My website can be found here https://cruscanlan.com

Cascade 2024

Celestial Flow 2024

Cirque 2024

Verdant Giant 2023

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1y

Ep 67 is out, looking at the UNESCO World Heritage listed Maria Island.

🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/67-maria-island/ 🎧

From it's aboriginal heritage, to use as a convict and then industrial site, to it's present day national park status - a rich interesting history.

#AustralianHistory #OzHist #AustralianPodcast #History #convicts #AustralianStories #MariaIsland #Tasmania #ConvictsTasmania #NationalParks

Watercolour sketch of Darlington, Maria Island c1831 (Robert Neill) (Tas Archives)

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177d

Today marks a full year we’ve been #LivingOnTheRoad. In that time, my wife, our cat Macsen—our other cat, Tommy, left us in January aged 17—and I travelled 13,374km up and down #Australia’s east coast, roughly equal to a third of the Earth’s circumference.

Last month’s #storms in #Tasmania wreaked havoc on our #caravan and cut our stay short, as we limp it back to NSW to the one place in the country that still services them. (1/2)

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I was going to have this shot as my silent Sunday picture. I walked on a path at Wynyard and at 7.01am it was officially the time of first light.

So I prepared myself above the beach to take this shot when a little penguin ran to the edge of a bush and growled at me. This was followed by it scampering back into the bush and a lot of chittering.

So I quickly snapped a first light photo at 7.02am and left them to it.

Talk about not being a morning person....

#silentsunday #tasmania #lutruwita #seascape #penguin #animals

A bright orange glow on the horizon below a few wisps of cloud and above an orange tinted sea. Rocks with pools dominate the foreground while a headland with a bare tree silhouetted on top sits to the right.

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318d

Here's that blog post with the full recap of my recent trip to #Hobart

There's a handful of photos in here that I'm really stoked on. 📸

I added all the camera and lens settings meta-data to each photo as best I could.

https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/tasmania-travel-diary

#Kunanyi #BatteryPoint #Tahune #SalamancaPlace #Snug #Kettering #SouthHobart #Tasmania #AdventureBay #Pademelon #Lighthouse #CatsOfMastodon #Blogging #SelfHost #SelfHosting #DSLR #PhotoDiary

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1y

Went to Bridport this afternoon for a wander. I love the se 🥰 #Tasmania

A view of the se with a grassy parkland in the foreground and a line of tall eucalypts further back. Then behind them, the sea. Which was beautifully turquoise green. Teal.

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1y

Deosil is anticlockwise

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the Sun travels through the sky, and specifically about which way it goes. In fact I wrote my Honours thesis about it, which I will put up here in the not too distant future. But I digress. The direction of the Sun’s movement is usually described as clockwise. But why is clockwise clockwise? Which is to say, why is the direction we call clockwise turning the way it is? No one will be surprised to know that clocks go that way because they are mimicking the direction of the Sun. This is based on a person facing the direction of the sunrise and seeing the Sun gradually move to their right over the course of the day; east, then southeast, then south, then southwest, then west. This direction is also referred to in English as deosil, a word with Gaelic roots. It is from from Old Irish, dess meaning right and sel meaning to turn.

However this situation does not obtain the planet over. Indeed where I live the Sun absolutely does not do this. My Sun rises in the east and then moves northeast, then north, then northwest, then west. I remember trying to explain this to a bunch of northern hemisphere Pagans at a Glastonbury solstice vigil one time, and they fully thought I was mad. They were unable to separate the concept of deosil from that of clockwise for the same reason I was unable to reconcile what I saw when I looked at the sky with the representation of that sky on an astrological chart, i.e. it just didn’t look that way to me. It took me a very long time to learn any astrology because of this. My breakthrough came when I eventually found some astrological software that had a feature to display the chart wheel as it appears in the southern hemisphere. It was a revelation. Suddenly the framework I had been taught to work with accurately reflected the reality of my sky, where deosil is anticlockwise.

So me and the bloke made a thing to help us austral dwellers see an astrological chart that shows our actual sky, with things moving in the direction they move for us. Here is a still from our real time, live updating chart for Hobart (42°52’48.0″S 147°19’01.2″E), Tasmania, Australia. You will have to go to the blog to see the actual live one.

Read the rest of this piece at;

https://ooze.net/deosil-is-anticlockwise/#astute

P.S. If anyone knows how to italicise text in a toot please let me know.

#Astrology #Astronomy #Religion #Pagan #Tasmania

A still image of the live updating, real time astrological wheel as seen from the southern hemisphere. You will have to go to my blog to see the actual live updating one.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 24

Smoke on the Water

One of my very early attempts at a long exposure. The colours are a mix of smoke from fire hazard reduction burns, and sparse clouds.

📷 TTArtisans 1.4/17mm

#photography #LongExposure #coastal #reflection #sunset #tasmania #TTArtisans

A colourful sunset viewed across a large bay. The sky of smoky yellow orange (from fire hazard reduction burns) fades to a pale blue above. The long exposure reflects the colours in the smoothed water surface, and gives the smoky effect around the boulder strewn shoreline in the near foreground, the wet rocks reflecting different colours in the scene.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 23

Moon light on the beach path after sunset.

📷 Samyang 2/12mm

#photoart #LongExposure #MoonLight #coastal #sunset #reflections #tasmania #photography

A moonlit pathway leads down to the beach in the foreground, dune grasses and fence posts in close focus at left, other plants and fence palings in silhouette at right. A pale yellow/orange sunset is just visible on the horizon beneath a dark, early evening sky with patchy clouds. The long exposure smooths the water and reflects the colours of the sunset.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 19

Stay Calm and Carry On

#photoart #bw #clouds #LongExposure #tasmania #photography

Dark horizontal bands of cloud pattern the smoothed water of a long exposure in this black and white image. Distant landscape lies in silhouette after the sun has set, lights glowing faintly in the early evening.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 18

Saturday's sunrise did the nice cloud thing. Natural colours sooc.

📷 Jupyter-37A 3.5/135mm

#photography #sunrise #VintageLens #tasmania #jupyter37

A sunrise scene with clouds over distant hills, the trees on the ridges in silhouette against a thin line of orange clouds. Above, the clouds are dark blue/purples in the shadow, with occasional tints of pink where the sun shines through from underneath (it hasn't risen yet). The hills are dark, the water in the bay in the foreground a deep blue.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 10

Several native plants in Tassie have spiky leaves.

The flush of red caught my eye on this small specimen.

📷 Takumar 1.8/55mm

#photography #nature #plants #tasmania #takumar

The crown of a small plant with elongated spiky leaves is in soft focus at middle left, the background a blur of dark greens and browns from the undergrowth.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 5

Sunset through the She-Oaks

Walking back from the shoreline before dark, turned on the path to look back at the sunset. Glad I did.

📷 Takumar 1.8/55mm

#photography #sunset #silhouette #tasmania #takumar #VintageLens

A fading sunset through silhouetted She-Oak trees, overlooking a large bay. The water is glassy smooth in the near distance close to shore, reflecting the pale blue to yellow of the higher sky. Wind turbulence in the distance turns the water a darker shade. The sunset is an orange glow at the horizon, gradually fading into a soft yellow and then pale blue above, with sparse scattered cloud in the distance visible through the branches.

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1y

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day 2

Aurora Australis from last night.

I can't keep you all waiting for the time lapse sequence, here's a sneak peak.

📷 Samyang 2/12mm, 500+ captures at iso2500, 20 seconds, f2.8

#photography #aurora #AuroraAustralis #SouthernLights #tasmania #samyang

An aurora captured from an embankment overlooking a bay. There are low streaking clouds on the horizon and above that, the aurora is green through to streaking red/pink vertical shafts to the top of the frame.

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1y

#Anticapitalist activists in #Hobart, #Tasmania, planted labels in the aisles of #Coles and #Woolworths, #Australia’s two largest #supermarket chains. [1/3] #subvertising #protest

A label mimicking a Coles’ special label, with sliced cheese in the background: “Our right to profit is more important than your right to food. That’s capitalism baby!”

A Woolworths special label, against shelves of sliced bread: “We’ve made over $1 billion in profits whilst you can’t even afford bread.”

A Coles special label on a steel display case: “If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t.”

A Woolworths special label on a case of oranges: “2 for 1 DEAL: We’re fucking over you AND farmers.”

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1y

A few mid-afternoon shots of the rocks along the east cost of Tasmania. The orange is a lichen that grows all along the east coast, an provides some amazing colour contrast against the blues and greens of the sea.

#tassie2023 #Tasmania #EastCoast #sea #rocks

churning waters amongst granite rocks, some tinged orange by lichen, deep blue sea beyond, and a wooded headland in the background.

A wave crashes against a granite rock shelf, causing a large splash to erupt in to the air. Deep blue sea and a wooded headland in the background.

Brilliant orange (lichen coated) granite rocks in the foreground, small waves crashing on rocks behind, with deep blue sea in the bay, and a wooded headland in the background under clear blue skies.

A small blue and green inlet between granite rock shelves. The granite is covered in orange lichen, contrasting well with the deep blue sea beyond. There is, in the bottom right of the frame, some green algae.

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2y

Reposting my #introduction since I've moved over to @hcommons.social

Um, hullo?

I'm a historian (or #histodons, adorable) on the small(ish) island of #Tasmania, at the bottom of Australia. I grew up here and occasionally like to go awandering, but do so love this island a lot.

I research colonial landscapes, particularly in the early years of a colony – I'm interested in how colonisers interpreted the land and adapted to it. Most of my work so far has looked at Tasmania, but I'm starting to branch out. I am a teeny bit of a map nerd, and am keen to find my fellow #HGIS and #GIS friends out here.

And this is one of my favourite maps, purely for the details on the illustration. #mapmonstermonday ain't got nothing on the wild creatures of Tasmania.

Tas Archives, AF396/1/114

Nineteenth century map of an estate, showing a long property painted green and decorated with little trees. In the top left is an illustration, with the title "Plan of an Estate the property of J. Beamont Esq, New Town". This illustration is expanded and described in the next image.

This is the illustration from the top left of the full map. A tree has been drawn, with various creatures running up and down the branches. At the bottom, a forked-tail hog looks up the tree, with the outline of a monkey running down the opposite side of the trunk. Hanging from the branches at the top is a skeletal monkey/possum/thing. A man is halfway up the tree, leaning back against a branch and aiming a rifle at the skeletal creature. On the ground, the outline of a scarecrow or person stands watching with a pipe in its mouth.

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2y

Hi! My name's Cheese. I make games, write long-form articles, do art, take photos, and make friends with animals here in #Lutruwita/ #Tasmania, Australia.

I do all my work on GNU/Linux, and I try to release and contribute to #FOSS / open culture projects when I can. From time to time, I port other people's games to #Linux, but I prefer to help set people up to support Linux themselves.

#introduction #gamedev #photography #wildlife

A screenshot of my bee-themed management sim Hive Time, zoomed in on a Queen, who is wearing a fruit hat and waving at the player

A render of a 3D scene showing a retro styled model rocket ship sitting on a bookshelf below a wall covered in glow-in-the-dark stars and planets

A dramatic sunset above a river. Leading south-east, light shafts break into dark looming clouds, while to the north, blue clouds with tan and peach highlights give way to a a pale yellow sky. A bank of nearby orange clouds frame the scene from above

A close up photo of a short beaked echidna as it waddles through the underbrush

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2y

#introduction Hello, time to start using this site.

I recently moved to #tasmania and hope to share some of the island's beauty as I find it.

I'm spending a weekend away in #Hobart to play #chess, a subject I also hope to post about.

In the meantime, here's the beautiful Tamar #river which I passed today
#photography

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2y

Hi! I'm jade

I'm a #bi, #polyamorous #trans woman from the best little island on the planet (lutruwita/Trouwunna aka #Tasmania)

I've been a professional software dev since 2014, working mostly with #Django and #Python (and tinkering with F/LOSS in spare moments)

I'm also involved in environmental and social justice activism, and sit on my local council, as a Green councillor

I enjoy queer media, RPGs, lifting weights (and did karate for ~20 years)

Super friendly, so say hi! 💜

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