Wild Tasmania 2006
(34cm wide x 30cm deep)
A calendar by Rob Blakers and Grant Dixon
Published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo

Two of our best-known wilderness photographers have joined forces in this calendar which features amazing views in heritage and national park areas captured with great sensitivity. As the months go by, each new aspect of the incomparable Tasmanian wilderness gives a lift to the spirits.

Crisply printed and luxuriously glossy, this would be a fabulous gift to send overseas, too.

Wilderness Tasmania 2006
(17cm wide x 23cm deep)
Produced and published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo

In contrast to the large format calendar above, and the diary that follows, this smaller version is illustrated with photographs only by Rob Blakers.

Again there is that quality of light that is the Blakers’ signature — stealing over flowering heath and scoparia in Ben Lomond National Park in the early morning, or reflecting off the peaks and undulations of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park blanketed with winter snow, or the last dramatic moments of a purple-red sky over Federation Peak, itself glowing mysteriously orange.

The calendar doesn’t have the space to keep many details of a busy life, it’s a month at a view — but would be a neat reference to hang in a study or a workshop, or simply to moon over when you’d rather be in the great outdoors. There’s enough room for each day to write at least a reminder of birthdays and other anniversaries or more prosaically, a date with the dentist or doctor.

Wilderness Tasmania 2006 Diary
Published by Rob Blakers — Wilderness Photo

Landscape images by Rob Blakers are teamed with wildlife images by Jon Bryan and Loic le Guilly in this really attractive, and very useful, diary. A week at a view per page, interspersed with full-page photographs or occasionally, a double-page extravaganza, means you won’t get bored with having it sit around on your desk or in your study or kitchen.

While it wouldn’t be suitable for keeping details of many appointments or complicated financial notations, its format allows you to keep quite an extensive amount of information within its pages. Spiral bound, so opens quite flat.

And those photographs … some you might recognise in the Rob Blakers portfolio, here; they are complemented beautifully by Jon Bryan’s shot of a self-important cuttlefish cruising along among kelp and Loic le Guilly’s shy little Bennett’s wallaby. Patsy Hollis

Visit his web site for more stunning imagery.