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5x Growth – a Conservation Success Story

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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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

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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Bird Images, Cute Animals, Nature and Wildlife, New South Wales, Photography Techniques, Quick Tips, Wildlife Photographybird photography, composition, hollows, Nature photography, old growth trees, photography, tree hollows, wildlife portrait

Happy Feather’s Day!

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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Bird Images, Did You Know?, New South Wales, On the Beaton Trackbehavioral ecology, Canberra, eggs, emu, father, feathers, male incubation, Nature photography, nest

Big news – latest book!

Booderee National Park? Who’s heard of that? Well, I knew it as Jervis Bay National Park when I was the photographer there years ago. It was so great to be working on this book because I got a chance to re-visit some of my favourite old haunts. And it was refreshing to discover that the

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Announcements, New South Wales

An artful life: Scotland Island, Sydney

I photographed an article for Australian Geographic recently and it’s now also online. If you don’t have a subscription to the Australian Geographic newsletter, you can see it here. Give a thought to the lead picture which is an overview of Scotland Island on a sparkling summer day. It almost looks like an aerial shot.

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Landscape Photography, New South Wales, People Photography

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

Last 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

One Minute with Nature: Cicada’s Summer Song

New Year’s Day started out warm – at last. It has been one of the coldest summers anyone can remember. Insects have been low key so it was a delight to find them calling from above my head, as I headed out on my first exploratory bushwalk of the year. This late in the summer

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Did You Know?, New South Walesbushland, cicadas, Floury Baker, insect song, nature, New Year's Day, summer, video