Spent a good chunk of golden hour wandering around The Gardens at the northern end of Bay of Fires.
Come along for the walk and enjoy the 360° views:
https://tas360.au/immersives/the-gardens-of-eden
Finally finished The Gardens.
Golden hour there is something else - easily one of the most beautiful places in Tasmania.
The bigger tours now live as immersive stories. This one covers the main walk, with the full tour and extra spots linked at the end.
I started this project around the same time I was diagnosed with MS and told my future could be heavy immune suppression - or, eventually, a wheelchair. At my worst, I had partially numb feet, a limp, brutal fatigue, depression that pinned me to the bed, and days when 8000 steps left me lying down with my vision going dark.
I spent years fighting that shit until I found a way to stay functional. I won enough to stay on my feet.
So I kept walking. Not because I was fine. Because I still could.
Over 6 years, I documented around 250+ places and shot 700+ of 360° panoramas across Tasmania on my own - beaches, lakes, waterfalls, mountain tracks, lookouts, hidden spots and places most people drive past without stopping.
I built the website and map myself, and spent thousands of hours processing, stitching and rebuilding the panoramas, because I didn't want years of Tasmania to die buried in folders. I wanted people to open the island and walk through it.
So far, 100+ places and 200+ spherical panoramas are published in the atlas. I'll leave the link in the comments.
P.S. About that million dollar reward for finding the last Tasmanian wolf - yes, the extinct one - my surname literally means "wolf" in Ukrainian.
You still have a chance.
– 6+ years of shooting, stitching, retouching, design and coding
– Built solo. 0 funding, 0 sponsors, 0 ads.
– Free for everyone
– 80 places online 170 HD 360° panoramas (still only around 30% of what I've shot so far)
– Map mode for browsing places across Tasmania, immersive journeys for larger full-screen 360° tours
Hey folks, I spent two winter days walking around Cradle Mountain with a camera and tripod, trying to capture a full 360° winter journey through the area.
Snow around Dove Lake often doesn’t last long once the day warms up, so the timing had to be stupidly specific. I watched the forecast, took the risk, went up once – then the next day looked even better, so I went back again. It turned into about 15 km of walking, 30+ panorama points, snow, wind, wet glass, water inside my boots for hours, a crow trying to negotiate for my biscuits, and one cursed lens that nearly died on a rock near Lake Lilla but somehow survived.
The result is a full 360° winter route through Cradle Mountain – not just a random panorama or two, but a journey you can actually move through. It includes the snow-covered Dove Lake Boatshed, Dove Lake Circuit, Chain Track, Lake Lilla, Wombat Pool, Wombat Peak and more winter scenes around the area.
https://tas360.au/immersives/winter-at-cradle-mountain
The link opens the curated immersive journey – the best scenes from the winter shoot. If you want to properly disappear into it, there’s a link to the full tour on the final screen.
No ads, no sponsors, no tourism dollars behind it. Just me, a camera, too much stubbornness, a ridiculous amount of luck, and a lot of love for the island.
Hope you enjoy having a wander around.
Hey folks, last year I spent two winter days walking around Cradle Mountain with a camera and tripod, trying to capture a full 360° journey through the area.
The timing had to be stupidly specific. Snow around Dove Lake often doesn't last long once the day warms up, so I watched the forecast, took the risk, and went for it. After the first day, the next forecast looked even more promising, so I went back again – and somehow there was even more snow.
It was a bit of a mess.
On the way there I slid partly into a ditch on wet snow and mud and somehow managed to get the car back out. Later I spent ages waiting for tiny weather windows between snow and wind, while a crow tried to negotiate for my biscuits. On the way toward Marions Lookout the wind and snow got so bad, with ice covering everything, that I ended up crawling on all fours for parts of it – and eventually accepted that shooting a panorama up there was simply not going to happen. Also, on the first day I was not nearly prepared enough for the conditions, so I ended up walking for 3-4 hours with water inside my boots.
My only lens – already a slightly crooked, defective little bastard – also took a proper hit during one of the timer shots near Lake Lilla. I saw the tripod starting to fall lens-first toward a stupid little rock sticking out of the track, ran toward it in full panic, and got there just late enough to feel my soul leave my body. Or maybe just early enough, because somehow the front glass survived. The lens jammed after that, but apparently not badly enough to retire – it's still out there doing its panoramic duty.
In the end it was around 15 km of walking, 30+ captured panorama points, a lot of snow, wet glass, water drops, smears, stitching mess and a stupid amount of cleanup afterwards.
This is the first proper full 360° winter journey through Cradle Mountain – not just a random panorama or two, but a complete route you can actually move through.
The finished journey includes the famous snow-covered Dove Lake Boatshed, the full Dove Lake Circuit, Chain Track, Lake Lilla, Wombat Pool, Wombat Peak and more winter scenes around Cradle Mountain.
https://tas360.au/immersives/winter-at-cradle-mountain
The link opens the curated immersive journey – the best scenes from the winter shoot. If you want to properly disappear into it, there’s a link to the full tour on the final screen.
I've also reworked the site a bit. The bigger full tours now have their own Immersive Journeys section, while the original map is still there and keeps growing – currently 80 places and 170+ panoramas across Tasmania. I also added a new interactive facts layer across the site – almost 50 small notes so far, pointing out hidden details, behind-the-scenes moments, and things that happened while shooting.
Still no ads, no sponsors, no tourism dollars behind it. Just me, a camera, too much stubbornness, a ridiculous amount of luck, and a lot of love for the island.
Hope you enjoy having a wander around.
