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Take better photos with your smartphone

Reading Time: 5 minutesYou can take great photos with your smartphone – as long as you remember two things: The smartphone is for internet use only. The quality is not adequate for print, unless it’s postcard size or smaller. This is due the the small format, i.e., the sensor in the iPhone is smaller than your little fingernail. […]

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Behind the Scenes, Digital Photography, Environment, New South Wales, People Photography, Photography Equipment, Photography TechniquesAustralian Wildlife Conservancy, conservation, in the field, iPhone photography, Pilliga, smartphone photography

Behind the scenes on this month’s magazine feature

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week I’m taking you behind the scenes of my current published assignment for Australian Geographic. It’s only a short feature and you can see it in the November December 2016 issue called “Raptor rehab”. Here are some notes as to how and why I shot some of the pics. I was allowed very limited

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Australian Geographic, Behind the Scenes, Conservation, New South Wales, Professional Photography, Wildlife Photographybehind the scenes, conservation, owls, raptors, rehabilitation, Southern Highlands, volunteer

Judging The Nature Conservancy Photo Competition 2016

Reading Time: 6 minutesNature Conservancy Australia contacted me in June to see if I’d be interested in being a judge for this year’s Nature Photo Competition. Of course I would! I’ve admired the work of the Nature Conservancy in the US for years. They also spread their activities around the globe and have successfully protected over 48

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Announcements, Beautiful Images, Conservation, Exhibitions & Artworks, Nature and Wildlife, On the Beaton Track, Photo Competitions, Wildlife Photographybirds, landscapes, Nature photography, photo competition, wildlife, wildlife photography

5x Growth – a Conservation Success Story

Reading Time: 5 minutesSeveral years ago, I partnered up with science writer Karen McGee to produce a feature on Gould’s Petrel for the UK magazine, Geographical. Most stories of endangered species I find confronting, but this one turned out to have a happy ending. Gould’s Petrel nests almost exclusively on a tiny bunch of rocks off the coast

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Behind the Scenes, Bird Images, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, New South Wales, Professional Photography, Threatened speciesbird photography, Cabbage Tree Island, conservation, environment, Gould's Petrel, John Gould Nature Reserve, National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, Port Stephens, seabirds

A Powerful Story (or The One That Got Away)

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs a nature and wildlife photographer I’m outdoors a lot and I often get into scrapes. They make entertaining stories to share on blogs and elsewhere. One time, however, it was my photographic subject that got into one – or almost. I was walking home one cool August night, in the quiet seaside village of

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Did You Know?, Nikon, Threatened species, Wildlife Photographyflash photography, night photography, nocturnal, owls, powerful owl

Hunting in National Parks? Er, I don’t think so.

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week about 100 people protested against a bill that would allow hunters to shoot feral animals in national parks. Much of the protest is spearheaded by rangers from the National Parks and Wildlife Service of NSW. They claim that hunters won’t discriminate – that they are just as likely to shoot native wildlife as

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Conservation, Habitats, New South Walesduck hunting, duck rescue operation, environmental protestors, hunters, hunting licenses, national parks, pest species, Riverina, waterfowl

The Secret’s out at Secret Creek

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce upon a time, in a deep gully, protected by rocky wooded slops, lived a quiet community of coal miners. Today, apart from a few stones marking the ruins of their homes, lives an equally quiet community of local residents. But these aren’t human. They are secretive mammals, little known and little seen by most

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Conservation, On the Beaton Trackconservation, Eastern Quolls, environment, nature, Secret Creek Sanctuary, Trevor Evans

Is this the Most Important Forest in the World?

Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent media release announced that scientists had measured the most carbon dense forest in the world. No, it’s not in the Amazon – it’s right here in Australia and I know it intimately. I worked hand in hand, for over a year, with well-known ecologist David Lindenmayer, one of the team of scientists who

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Did You Know?, Ecology, Habitats, Victoriacarbon emissions, carbon storage, climate change, conservation photography, ecology, environment, forest ecology, global warming, greenhouse gases, landscape photography, mountain ash, Nature photography

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