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Marysville, Healesville, Kinglake: Names Burned into Our Minds Forever

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 1999, as I sat at this cafe in the centre of Marysville, I had no idea of the consequences of my upcoming assignment. David Lindenmayer and I were outlining the chapters of a new book, Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests, and planning my shooting schedule for the next 12 months. Over the following […]

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Conservation, Environment, On the Beaton Track, Victoriabushfire, Marysville, mountain ash, Nature photography, photographers, Victoria

To Kill or Not to Kill Our Whale?

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe question is moot. The deed has been done. Last week, as a community, we decided to euthanase baby Colin, the whale who had come adrift from her mother, and who had been sucking the hulls of boats moored in Pittwater, one of Sydney’s harbours just a couple sea miles from my house. What a

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Conservation, Professional Photography, Wildlife Photographyconservation, environment, photographers, whales

Photographers, Politics and the Environment

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the most significant environmental events in Australia occurred in 1983. And I was there. It was January, I was on my honeymoon with my French photographer husband, Jean-Paul Ferrero and I was on a mission to try my hand at my first ever photojournalism piece. We cruised down Tasmania’s Gordon River and camped

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Conservation, Tasmaniaenvironment, environmental protestors, Gordon River, photojournalism, protests, Tasmania