JEWELS OF TASMANIA EXTRAORDINARY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE APPLE ISLE 18 - 28 FEBRUARY 2022 Ignacio Palacios - Ken Duncan
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JEWELS OF TASMANIA EXTRAORDINARY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE APPLE ISLE 18 - 28 FEBRUARY 2022 Ignacio Palacios – Ken Duncan
JEWELS OF
TASMANIA
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Russel Falls
TOUR It is nearly impossible to define the highlights for a tour of this
calibre be here is a taste of the adventure that awaits for you:
HIGHLIGHTS • Photograph Cradle Mountain National Park
• Mt Field National Park – Horseshoe Falls and Russell Falls
• Photograph the beautiful Bay of Fires Coastline
• Freycinet National Park – Photograph Wineglass Bay Lookout,
Coles Bay/The Hazards, Honeymoon Bay
• Helicopter flights around the Three Capes and Cradle Mountain
National Park
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Cradle Mountain National Park
ITINERARY DAY 1 | 18 February: Hobart
Arrival in Hobart, group gathering, introductions and dinner at
the Crowne Plaza in Hobart.
DAY 2 | 19 February: Hobart, Mt Field National Park and
Goulds Lagoon Sanctuary
5:20am: Sunrise photography session at Hobart Waterfront –
Constitution Dock.
7:00am: Breakfast at the hotel.
8:30am: Visit and photograph the colourful Salamanca Market.
10:00am: Russell Falls and Horseshoe Falls Photography Shoot.
Bring your filters!
2:00pm: Depart Russell Falls for Gould’s Lagoon Sanctuary –
Goulds Lagoon Sanctuary.
4:30pm: Return back to Crowne Plaza and dinner.
DAY 3 | 20 February: Cape Pillar Helicopter Flight, Kayaking
around Fortescue Bay and Eaglehawk Neck
7:30am: Breakfast at the hotel.
9:00am: Transfer to Port Arthur, Three Capes by Helicopter –
30 minutes, doors off.
11:00am: Kayaking around Fortescue Bay. Appropriate casing to
keep your cameras dry!
2:45pm: Visit and photograph Eaglehawk Neck – Devil’s Kitchen,
Tessellated Pavements & Tasman Arch – Eaglehawk Neck, Devils
Kitchen, Tessellated Pavement State Reserve.
5:00pm: Return back to Crowne Plaza and dinner.
Note:
Fortescue Bay is probably the most spectacular kayaking spot on the
Tasman. Although you won’t get all the way to the Totem Pole, you
could paddle to the Shipwreck or along the cliffs depending on the
weather. If the weather is unsuitable for this venue there is also a very
protected section from Stewarts Bay to Port Arthur Historic Village.
Physical requirements:
While kayaking experience is not necessary this tour can be physically
demanding and you do need to be able to paddle for up to three
hours (we do stop for snacks, drinks, photos, lunch and just to enjoy
the view though!).
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Three Capes
ITINERARY DAY 4 | 21 February: Helicopter to Cradle Mountain, Dove Lake
CONTINUED 7:30am: Breakfast and check-out.
12:30am: Transfer to Cradle Mountain (4.5hrs) and check in at
Peppers Cradle Mountain Lodge.
2:00pm: Helicopter flight around Cradle Mountain, 30 minutes,
doors off.
5:00pm: Dinner at Peppers Cradle Mountain.
7:00pm: Sunset photography shoot along Dove Lake Circuit.
DAY 5 | 22 February: Cradle Mountain National Park
Sunrise Photography shoot, Cradle Mountain/Dove Lake.
Return to Peppers Cradle Mountain Lodge for breakfast.
Free time to process your images and lunch.
2:00pm: Presentation on composition by Ignacio Palacios.
5:00pm: Dinner at Peppers Cradle Mountain.
7:00pm: Sunset photography shoot, Cradle Mountain and
Dove Lake Circuit.
Marion’s Lookout Photography Session
Distance: 2-3 km one-way; time: 1 hour; start: Dove Lake.
Marion’s Lookout offers up one of the best views in all of
Cradle Mountain National Park. With the stark chiselled twin
peaks rising up sharply overhead and the glimmering surface of
Dove Lake stretching out below your feet, it’s a great place to sit,
photograph and take it all in. But be warned, it gets incredibly
windy up here and can become quickly shrouded in low cloud if
the weather decides to turn!
DAY 6 | 23 February: Arrival in Coles Bay
10:00am: Breakfast and check out.
11:30am: Stop for lunch at Deloraine.
12:30pm: Depart for Campbell Town.
2:20pm: Check in at Edge of the Bay Resort, Coles Bay.
4:00pm: Processing Critique session with Ignacio and Ken at
the hotel.
5:30pm: Early dinner.
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ITINERARY DAY 7 | 24 February: Binalong Bay and Swimcart Beach –
Bay of Fires/Douglas Apsley National Park
CONTINUED 3:40am: Binalong Bay sunrise photography session. As the Binalong
Bay is a 1h 40 min drive from your accommodation, you will have to
leave around 3:40am to ensure you have enough time to get there
and set up for your photos. Make sure to bring a snack for the road
as breakfast isn’t until 10am.
7:00am: Depart for Swimcart Beach, Bay of Fires.
After your sunrise photography session, your driver will drive you
15 minutes up the road to Swimcart Beach where you can spend
some time walking along the Bay of Fires. It is just a long stretch of
beach so you can take a dip or just sit and relax for a while, or take
more photos!
10:00am: Breakfast at Meresta Eatery – Meresta Eatery.
Sightseeing on the East Coast – Douglas Apsley National Park.
5:00pm: early dinner.
Return to Edge of the Bay for the night.
DAY 8 | 25 February: Freycinet, Wineglass Bay and Hazards
Beach Circuit
4:30am: Walk to the top of Wineglass Bay Lookout & Hazards Beach
Circuit – Our driver will transfer us to the start of the track where we
will need to ascend to the top of the lookout (45 min approx.) 2hrs
return. Continue the circuit after your sunrise photography session.
Lunch.
Free time to process your images.
5:00pm: early dinner at Luz Restaurant.
7:00pm: Sunset photography shoot at the Hazards.
Return to Edge of the Bay for the night.
DAY 9 | 26 February: Freycinet
5:00am: Capture the sunrise at Bluestone Bay. Bluestone Bay is a
beautiful spot where waves wash over smooth boulders. The bay
faces north-east so sunrise is the time to go.
Return back to the hotel for breakfast.
9:30am: Wineglass Bay Cruise. Cruise the spectacular coastline
of Freycinet National Park from Coles Bay to Wineglass Bay. Be
enthralled by the stunning granite coastline, including the dramatic
pink peaks of the Hazards range. Explore the inner passage of remote
Schouten Island, home to little penguins and short tailed shearwaters,
before heading into the Tasman Sea towards Wineglass Bay.
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Bay
ITINERARY Look out for various hidden sea caves, blowholes and waterfalls
amongst the sheer granite cliffs. Take in the sheer beauty of
CONTINUED Wineglass Bay from the rarely seen perspective of the water,
a shimmering crescent of white sand fringes spilling into glassy
turquoise waters. Uncover the rich history of the region, including
aboriginal heritage and tales of early explorers and entrepreneurs.
Lunch/free time to process your images.
5:00pm: Dinner at hotel.
7:00pm: Photograph Cape Tourville Lighthouse for Sunset. Sunset
is the best time to photograph the rugged peaks of the Hazards.
Good vantage points can be found in Coles Bay onrocky points
accessed from the Esplanade. Look for some interesting rocks
for foreground interest, fortunately there are a lot of these many
covered in orange lichen that glows in the light of the setting sun.
Return to Edge of the Bay for the night.
DAY 10 | 27 February: Back to Hobart
10am: Breakfast and check out.
Travel from Freycinet back to Hobart (~2.5hrs).
Visit Kate’s Berry Farm, Swansea.
Visit Raspin’s Beach, Orford.
Check in at Crowne Plaza Hobart .
3pm: Last processing/Critique session with Ignacio and Ken
(time permitting).
6pm: Farewell dinner at hotel.
DAY 11 | 28 February: Going back home
9am: last breakfast with the group, feedback and check-out.
18 Bluestone Bay 19PHOTOGRAPHY Central to this unforgettable tour is YOU. Through
Ignacio’s and Ken’s guidance, you’ll not only learn
Critique Session
Should you dream of entering competitions, or
EXPERIENCE the secrets of the masters, but you’ll take your simply wish to push yourself as a photographer,
photography skills to the next level and leave your critique sessions are an invaluable part of the
Tassie adventure with a collection of powerful, learning process. Ignacio and ken will offer one-
moving photographs that you’ll share with pride. on-one critique sessions during the tour. Providing
Some of the photography skills you’ll learn constructive evaluation and feedback supported
throughout the tour include: by recommendations and tips through the eyes of
a professional. While having your work critiqued
• The art of composition can feel overwhelming at first, this is one of the
• Stitch Panoramas most powerful ways to improve your skills as a
photographer.
• Post-processing techniques tips and tricks
• How to work with light Level of photography
• Optimising your equipment and filters All skills levels are welcome. Whether you’re a
beginner or expert, the tour is designed to cover
• Pre-visualisation and the creative process all aspects of image capture and post processing
• T he unique techniques of landscape photography, as it applies to where you are on your photography
wildlife photography, while also touching on journey. As for equipment, we can help you
aerial, black and white, and night photography optimise the equipment you chose to use from
mobile phone to tablets, compact camera to digital
• Ignacio and Ken will also be there to offer
SLR cameras.
one-on-one guidance on other specific skills
you’d personally like to master.
Physical considerations
While you’ll be experiencing Tasmania in style there
Camera Skills
will be times when the group needs to embark on
The best way to learn the art of photography is
a walk/hike/kayak to visit and photograph the best
by taking photos. So Ignacio and Ken will be by
locations. As part of the pre-tour planning, we ask
your side in the field sharing insight and guidance
you share any existing health conditions with us so
as you shoot. Helping you create great photos as
we may plan for your comfort and safety.
you shoot. No matter your skill level or equipment,
you’ll learn the craft with award-winning masters.
The Creative Process
Throughout the tour, you’ll also have the
opportunity to process and enhance your images
using Lightroom, Photoshop, Capture One and
other editing software. Learning first-hand how to
create photographs that tell a story, evoke emotion
and ultimately help you find your unique style and
personality as an artist.
20 Cape Tourville Lighthouse 21THE IGNACIO PALACIOS KEN DUNCAN
TEAM When it comes to photography
and travel, few can rival Ignacio
Ken Duncan is well known as
the pioneer of Limited Edition
Palacios’ experience, skill, and Photographic Art in Australia.
passion. A third-generation After a visit to New York in
photographer, Ignacio has the early 1980’s, Ken returned
been honoured with over home with a dream to have
100 prestigious photography photography widely accepted as an art form in
prizes and awards from around the world and this country. The increasing number of Australian
has travelled to over 90 countries in his 20 years photographers now emulating his panoramic style
career. It’s little wonder he’s developed a reputation
and finding a market for their work is testimony to
as a leading photographer in the fields of travel,
Ken’s success.
landscape, and nature photography.
Ken is truly passionate about his craft. Always
Born in Spain, Ignacio now calls Sydney, Australia
striving for excellence, he travels extensively
home – though his unmistakable Spanish spirit
throughout the world in search of the stunning
continues to influence his work and define his
panoramic landscapes – or Panographs – for which
signature style.
he is best known. Internationally acclaimed as a
Combining his love of travel and photography has gifted and prolific landscape photographer, Ken
proved a powerful combination, and today Ignacio still chooses to describe himself as “... an average
leads some of the world’s best photography tours photographer, with a great God – merely an
to incredible destinations around the world. As an interpreter of God’s creation”. The art, he says, is
AIPP double Master of Photography, Ignacio shares in seeing, capturing and presenting these images
his insight, experience, and technique with his to others. And this Ken does with his own unique
clients to help them find their own success and joy style and his exceptional ability to capture the very
on their photographic journey.
spirit of a place at a given moment in time.
“My photography is a two
“I hope that through my images and my tours, His first solo book was published in 1987, and he
parts creative process, I can open people’s eyes to the incredible world later went on to become a publisher in his own
the first part is to take the we live in. I want to give my guests both travel and
right. Since 1992, over 60 individual titles have
photograph and the second photographic experience. We are privileged to have
been released under the Ken Duncan Panographs
part, as Ansel Adams said such a beautiful planet and it’s our responsibility to
trademark. Although Ken prefers the panoramic
respect, cherish and protect it.”
is performing it. It is in format – “that’s the way we see”, he says – he is
the second part that I have Ignacio’s distinct, award-winning style can be well versed in a multitude of formats and media.
the opportunity to make defined by his mastery of composition, colour, and He has even dabbled in cinematography and would
light. With his minimalistic style and unique ability like to do more with this medium in the future.
the images my own and to connect with his audience through storytelling He can turn his hand to any type of photography –
bringing out qualities that through his images, Ignacio invites his audience to from portraits to landscapes to 3-D and everything
communicate my vision.” experience the subject not as how he captured it, in between – and produce consistently creative
Ignacio Palacios but how he experienced it, evoking an emotional results. Ken Duncan Limited Edition Art Prints grace
connection between the viewer, subject and artist.
the walls of many fine homes and businesses right
Photography and travel will always be Ignacio’s around the world.
passion, and he is dedicated to helping others www.kenduncan.com
ignite their passion too.
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22 Bay of Fires 23CHECKLIST Camera equipment
There is really no limit to what
What to bring, clothing
and other
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the right to cancel this workshop.
camera gear you take. Check • Water bottle (1lt) to avoid In the event of this happening,
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camera equipment you have, we • Sun block and sunglasses have no further claim against
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equipment checklist at the end such refund will not include
• We recommend comfortable
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clothing made of fabric that
to discuss specific equipment for other services made in
breaths (such as cotton) and
for this trip, please contact me. addition to the itinerary outlined
pack a combination of short
•D
SLR. To bring a couple of above. The responsibility for
sleeve and long sleeve top
bodies is always recommended. such bookings lies with the
and pant options
(check your baggage allowance participant. As such, IP Travel
• Comfortable hiking boots Photography recommends
with your airline/travel agent)
• And you may wish to bring participants to purchase a travel
• Tripod with quick release plate swimwear to take adventure protection insurance prior to
• S tandard zoom, wide angle of the pools in our hotels. paying the first deposit.
and telephoto lens
• P lenty of batteries and a Luggage preparations
• Additional luggage allowances To reserve your place for
couple of chargers
have been arranged across 2022 or to make an enquiry,
• Shutter cable release please email ignacio@
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• Polarising filter and ND filters your convenience iptravelphotography.com.au
• L aptop computer with • We recommend you shrink
Photoshop and Lightroom wrapping your baggage at
and/or Capture One your departure airport
• E xternal backup drives (SSD • Ensure your telephoto lenses
recommended) and memory are packing in protective
cards for storage casings designed for this
•A
s a Nikon photographer, specific lens
Ignacio plans to bring two • We also suggest you carry your
bodies and lenses that cover camera equipment as carry-on
the range of 24mm to 400mm luggage where possible in the
plus a x1.4 teleconverter, event your luggage is delayed
a 24-70mm f2.8 70-200mm or lost, you can still shoot the
f2.8 and possibly a 180-400 moment you arrive.
f4 and a 400mm f2.8 prime.
24 Horseshoe Falls 25TERMS Terms of payment
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WORKSHOP DATES AND PRICES • 11 full days of photography the right to:
fluctuations, airline schedule There is no phone reception
waived if you are able to
tuition, inspirational • Substitute hotels/ changes, fuel and tax price in some of the areas we are
arrange a full paying substitute
Tour dates: 18 – 28 February 2022 presentations and editing and accommodation charges travelling so consider getting a
attendee.
critique sessions with Ignacio • Make changes in the itinerary satellite phone if you need to
• Change the price of the
The tour commences and ends in Hobart Palacios and Ken Duncan Fitness and health or transport if required due to be in touch.
workshop at any time due to
• 30-minute flight around Three considerations changes in airline schedules, major unforeseen increases in
Cost of the workshop: AU$13,490 per person twin share Capes by Helicopter, doors off Sometimes participants will be or when necessary. We may expedition related costs and Special Note regarding
Single Supplement: AU$2,490 • 30-minute flight around required to walk on uneven be forced to change or alter may have to be adjusted as COVID-19
Cradle Mountain, doors off terrain or tracks and hiking. the itinerary due to unforeseen a result. In the event that the tour is
Maximum group size: capped to 7-10 participants • Kayaking around Fortescue Bay circumstances; please be cancelled due to COVID-19 and/
A basic level of walking fitness
(only 7 rooms available) (includes lunch) aware, however, that we will Liability or any other travel restrictions
will help, but this tour is not a
attempt to stick as close to the The operation of the workshop imposed by Governments,
• W ineglass Bay Cruise hiking tour or a trekking tour so
original program as possible. is at the sole discretion of a refund will be given that will
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• Cancel the workshop prior to Ignacio Palacios (IP Travel be equal to the amount paid
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