TASMANIAN LENS

writer and photographer PEN TAYLER

The Dove Lake boatshed has held a special place in my heart since I was very young, which is quite a long time ago. So long ago that there was actually a timber rowing boat in it. My parents used to lift my brother and I into the boat in our little canvas lifejackets, and my father would row us across the lake to one of the beaches that was, in those days, inaccessible via a walking track, where we would have a picnic and boil the billy. So it was more than just the reflection in the water of the boatshed that I was photographing.

Pen Tayler is a Tasmanian writer and photographer. She photographed 12 towns for Towns of Tasmania, written by Bert Spinks, and has written and provided images for Hop Kilns of Tasmania (both Forty South Publishing). She has also written a book about Prospect House and Belmont House in the Coal River Valley.