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Purely beautiful, interesting or amazing images – the results of applying my photographic techniques. Predominantly galleries with a round-up paragraph.

Judging The Nature Conservancy Photo Competition 2016

Eye Spy by Mark Seabury

Nature 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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5x Growth – a Conservation Success Story

Gould's Petrel chick

Several 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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Don’t frame too tight

Sometimes, when I’ve been judging photo competitons, I’ve had to evaluate an image  where the subject in the photo is wedged so tight in the frame  that you  get an uncomfortable feeling looking at it. When I’ve commented that “there’s no room to breathe” the photographer usually rebuts me by saying “but I’ve been criticised

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Happy Feather’s Day!

Male emu with eggs

Here’s something to make all fathers think. Be thankful you weren’t  born an emu. Your lot in life would have been tending all the eggs – a dozen  or more at a time (some even fertilised by rival males!)  – no time to lubricate your parched throat and you would suffer dramatic weight loss. And

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Art Show Prizewinner!

People's Choice award

Did you know this artwork won a prize? “Ragged Red” which is on the wall at Shorethyme Gallery Restaurant right now, won the People’s Choice award at the Central Coast Art Society exhibition, Kariong, New South Wales. I was never more surprised in my life. Dumbfounded. You see, I had entered the competition on a

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