Dan Broun

Dan Broun is a filmmaker and landscape photographer based in Hobart, Tasmania. He specialises in remote area work and spends vast amounts of time bushwalking in Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area, a place that he has a great affinity with. Dan’s photography is about connecting with country and attempting to convey that connectedness with education and conservation as the primary motivators for his work. He also has a fascination for the indigenous culture of Tasmania, how they lived in and interacted with the landscape, Dan has spent many months documenting cultural sites and practices through his video and photographic work.

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The Most Humbling Beauty – the Eastern Arthurs

March 20, 2017Dan BrounDepartment of Terrestrial Exploration, Issue Forty Seven, Note, Office for the Captured Pixel, Photographyadventure, arthurs, Bushwalking, Climbing, Mountains, photography, quartzite, Southwest, Southwest Tasmania, Terrain, Wilderness

We’re delighted to share these remarkable images from wilderness photographer Dan Broun after a recent excursion with Dugald Hamilton.

Dan shares his thoughts:

This is a walk I’ve wanted to do for many years, but for some reason I got distracted in other places. The Eastern Arthurs are truly rugged: in eight days we we travelled over 7 km of vertical ups and downs. There is danger everywhere, the range is highly exposed to foul weather… and it is jam packed full of the most humbling beauty imaginable.
An adventure for the ages. I simply can’t wait to go back. I do hope you enjoy this visual essay.

A magnificent King Billy pine tree swathed in climbing heath- by Dan Broun

Hanging Lake hanging over Lake Geeves- by Dan Broun

Next day after crossing a swollen Cracroft River we entered buttongrass country- by Dan Broun

Diving into the clouds- by Dan Broun

Climbing high above Thwaites Plateau- by Dan Broun

Some lovely Blandfordia in bloom at the lower altitudes- by Dan Broun

Richea scoparia, nestled on The Gables- by Dan Broun

Federation from Geeves Bluff- by Dan Broun

Exploring near Hanging Lake- by Dan Broun

The crags and spires over Hanging Lake watch while mist and fog dance and swim and push and pull- by Dan Broun

The Eastern Portal- by Dan Broun

We stopped 20km in for a night by the river- by Dan Broun

The Spiro Range, the Old River Valley and The Norolds, at dawn- by Dan Broun

Pockets of wet forest pockmark the plains- by Dan Broun

Geum talbotianum clinging to some crevice in the rock around 1100m altitude- by Dan Broun

Leaving Stuarts Saddle- by Dan Broun

The Huon Yoyo track bounces along the Huon River- a beautiful but long, undulating walk- by Dan Broun

Richea in flower- by Dan Broun

Three minutes of remarkable lgiht at Goon Moor- by Dan Broun

Approaching Hanging Lake and things look decidedly civilised- by Dan Broun

Walking across Goon Moor, a big day ahead traversing the notorious Four Peaks- by Dan Broun

A global treasure- by Dan Broun

Climbing The Needles, a very fun side trip- by Dan Broun

Stuarts Saddle, as the mist rolls through on our first night in the range- by Dan Broun

Hanging Lake in the Eastern Arthurs- by Dan Broun

The Sunrise at Goon Moor- by Dan Broun

Pretty things of light and shade- by Dan Broun

The campsite at Goon Moor- by Dan Broun

Clouds roll in over Federation Peak- by Dan Broun

A climb of The Dial before dropping to our campsite at Stuarts Saddle- by Dan Broun

Looking west from the Dial- by Dan Broun

The Needles at dawn- by Dan Broun

Looking back at the previous two days- by Dan Broun

After crossing The Razorback we are greeted with views of the Western Arthurs- by Dan Broun

Day 3 and we start to climb the range- by Dan Broun

Climbing up from Thwaites Plateau- by Dan Broun

Approaching Fedders- by Dan Broun

Morning in the Eastern Arthurs- by Dan Broun

Hanging Lake and Geeves Bluff- by Dan Broun

And finally, pretty tired and with weather rolling in we made camp at Pass Creek- by Dan Broun

Reaching the heights - and the beginning - of the Eastern Arthurs- by Dan Broun