Craigs Hut, Apline National Park, Victoria

A few more shots from my successful trip to Craig’s Hut earlier this month.

All are panoramic stitches of various numbers and cropped to replicate film format sizes. I did shoot two rolls of film on the GX617 but they were mostly long exposure stuff and after seeing the kind of quality I got from digital I’m in no rush to get them developed. Another nail in the coffin for film… well for me anyway.

All shot on the Canon 5D Mark II | 24 – 70mm f2.8 lens

Craigs Hut – Mt Stirling, Victoria

On my way down to Melbourne to run my courses I decided to make the most of the trip and stop overnight at Mansfield which is about a 45 minute drive to Craigs Hut.

We stayed at the Mansfield Motel and by chance the owner Ash (great bloke) was an avid photographer and was keen to head out to the hut as well and see if the snow had remained from a recent dump.

As luck would have it Ash was also the owner of a Landcruiser Sahara, talk about a luxury 4WD with balls so the trip to the hut was a breeze. Far better than my last memories of my trip to the hut many years ago where is was foggy and raining.

The snow had pretty much melted and only small patches remained but the warm light that was present as the sun slowly dropped was amazing. A photographers delight.

The hut which was never used as shelter for travellers was part of the movie set for The man from Snowy River and was moved to this location as a tourist attraction. Unfortunately it burnt down on the 11th of December 2006 by bush fires and was later rebuilt under a bit of controversy with it not being re built to the same design as the last one and budget blow outs… link 

But to the first time visitor you wont know the difference and it is a worth while trip and the hut looks great.

This is just one of many shots and compositions from the afternoon. I will post more soon.