NATURE PHOTO CONTEST WEEK #9 – MOUNTAINS MONDAY WINNERS!
FIRST PLACE (40% of this post’s SBD): @intrepidphotos
“Alpenglow on a very very cold pre dawn on the Fitzroy Massif. Fitzroy Massif. Left to right the main peaks are Cerro Poincenot (3002m), Aguja de la Silla (2938m), Monte Fitz Roy (3405m), Aguja Val de Vois (2653m). Fitz Roy was named after the captain of the HMS Beagle who explored the area with renowned naturalist Charles Darwin, after traveling up the Santa Cruze River in 1834. Alternatively called Cerro Chaltén; Chaltén is a Tehuelche (Aonikenk) word meaning smoking mountain, due to a cloud that usually forms around the tip of the mountain. Argentine Patagonia, Argentina”
SECOND PLACE (25% of this post’s SBD): @fivealive55
“South Sister mountain reflected in Camp Lake during golden hour. Oregon USA.”
THIRD PLACE (15% of this post’s SBD): @martingo
“Green hills of Karkonosze mountains range in Poland, picture taken from the top (1603m) which is a natural Polish/Czech Republic border.”
HONORABLE MENTIONS (10% each of this post’s SBD)
@jayclar30
“This is Mount Lindesay, a mountain located within the Mount Barney National Park in Queensland and the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales. This photo was taken from the Mount Lindesay Highway on the New South Wales side of the border. It is well known for its tiered summit and the eroded remnants of lava flows. It is often seen in a cloud of mist and other than the northern slope, the rest of the peak is covered in thick, lush rainforest.”
@fjorenca
“Sunrise in La Joue Du Loup, the southern Alps of France. In a cold winter morning with fresh snow decorating the peaks, it is very exciting to be greeted with these fabulous warm colors as a way to start the day.”
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Oh wow, really!!! :D
Thanks for the honorable mention!! I never though I'd ever have a chance in Mountains Monday, we seem SO flat here in Australia compared with the rest of the world...
Congratulations winners!!!
Lots of good craggy mountains in Australia ! You just have to look a bit harder ;-)
Do you think... we don't have anything too big though, not really. Nothing like a lot of the mountain photos posted on here... they make our mountains look like little hills and valleys! Lol. : )
There are lots of amazing mountains there. Nothing of epic size but lots of beautiful craggy peaks. It's the character not the size that counts ;-) Just take Federation Peak as an example.
Lol... I don't know... sometimes size does matter! Hahaaa ; )
I don't know that one I'll have look it up. I don't know... we spend quite a bit of time up in the mountains... but... yeah I don't know. Right, I'm going to take this as a challenge... while I'm out I'm going to try and find more mountain shots... lol.
Oh yes... Tassie... well that is a location I very much want to get to and yes they have some amazing mountainous areas... you really should have given an example on the mainland! :P ; )
Ok if you want something outside of tassie (there are too many cool peaks to mention down there). Mt Barney obviously ( it is perhaps my favorite mountain in the world but I am a little biased from my childhood). Close to your home you also have the glasshouse mountains which make good shots even though they are small. Warrumbungles are amazing. Bluff Knoll in the Sterling ranges. Signal Peak in the Grampians. The Olgers in NT. Anything in the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountans . Monolith valley in the Budawangs .
If you want something bigger and a bit more alpine you have peaks like The Sentinel and Watsons Crags in the Snowy Mountains in NSW or Mt Feathertop in Victoria. People forget that Australia has more winter covered snow area than Switzerland. There is a lot out there; its just hard to get to and inaccessible .
Here is a shot looking towards Mt Feathertop
And one looking down over Watson crags
Neither are my shots - could not find who took that first one but the second is up on the Australian Back-country Skiing page
http://www.ozbc.net/nsw_crags.htm
Oh true... my husbands parents are out at Kelbar : )
Yes the Glass House mountains to have some good photo ops... we've only travelled QLD, NSW, ACT and VIC, never made it to the Grampians sadly... but we'd like to get back there. There's lots of mountains but not wow mountains, not that I have seen. Lots of ranges but they all start to look the same.
We went down to the snow a few years back... there was hardly any snow, they were having to use the machines to get snow on the slopes. They had a great fall the year after and I last year was okay...ish. It's getting hotter and hotter, the weather is all over the place now... we've lost our summer storms and now if we get a storm they're destructive super cells. We'd like to move further south to escape the heat, they say hitting 50 degrees is going to become our norm through summer now.
I think your definition of wow mountains changes over time once you have seen a lot of them and then it becomes what is more interesting in terms of form. But yes I know what you mean. No classic alpine fault line with glaciated alpine peaks in Australia. Have to fly to NZ to get the alpine fault caused by the Australian continental plate. There are crazy mountains on the edge of the plate just north of us in the Papua highlands . Most people don't realize that New Guinea has mountians taller than anything in the European alps. Puncak Jaya sits at 4,884 m (16,024 ft) and has several glaciers on its side ( Mont Blanc is 4,808.7 m (15,777 ft) in comparison) . There is also Puncak Trikora at 4,730m and Mount Wilhelm on the PNG side at t 4,509m
Picture of Puncak Jaya below.
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Thanks for the selection ! I love mountains Monday! Some great peaks here.