Day 5: Roslyn’s Pool
Lovely campsite just below Freedoms Gates. A gently sloping beach with piles of driftwood, quite a bit of it Huon Pine, whose smell permeates my surroundings.
-Journal, ‘The River Book’, Andy Szöllősi. 2024.
Foam eddies in Roslyn’s Pool, moonlight (f11/15sec), Waratah, Bauera (f2.8/60). Double exposure. The first shot is effectively invisible. Hasselblad 500CM, Portra 800, Nov 2024.
Roslyn’s Pool is named after Roslyn Jones who drowned in Denison Gorge in 1980.
Denison Gorge. Hasselblad 500CM, f11/125, Portra 800, Nov 2024.
The mandatory portage is about 3/4 down the gorge after a ‘phallic’ rock and R bend. There is a large flat rock to pull out onto on river left. Further downstream, the entire river goes underground beneath some boulders.
Leaning tree, Denison Gorge. This picture is a two piece panorama, cropped to the golden ratio, 1:1.618. Hasselblad 500CM, f8/125, Portra 800, Nov 2024.