Peter Dombrovskis, Ice and Alpenglow, Cradle Mountain, Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania 1979. Dombrovskis’ work continues to inspire a new generation of photographers.
About two months ago I received a copy of the book Journeys into the wild: the photography of Peter Dombrovskis.
I’ve written about Dombrovskis before, as his images of Tasmania were partly my inspiration for a trip to Tasmania’s Western Arthur range, Southwest National Park, in January this year. Unfortunately we had five straight days of rain and my dream of replicating his image from above Lake Oberon was thwarted by low-cloud and gale force winds. As my partner and I huddled in our tent eating our last packet of cheese and crackers, it was a reminder, if ever we needed one, of Dombrovskis’ sheer…
