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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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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

Suzanne Holman, go in peace

The artist, Suzanne Holman, at work on one of her first major artworks, the mural at the children’s pool at Bondi Beach. I just had to write something to acknowledge this lovely, talented and community-spirited artist. She never stopped created murals and art installations along the whole eastern coastline. What a beautiful woman! Had I

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On the Beaton Track

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

The Secret’s out at Secret Creek

Once 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

Outback birds take to nesting

The Outback when it is wet is amazing. When it floods and takes human lives, and livestock, then it is truly terrible. The damage caused by the recent Queensland floods was so so extreme because it mainly hit the heavily populated coastal towns. Further inland, the Outback towns are used to the river channels breaking

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Bird Images, Did You Know?, On the Beaton Track, OutbackFairy Martins, mud nests, nest theft, nesting, Zebra Finch

Magic happens when you least expect it

I arrived at Cooper Creek, in South Australia’s Channel Country, in the middle of this year’s unusual rains. The scene I planned to photograph was grey and ordinary. But after spending an hour or two – and after I stopped whinging about the gloomy skies – the real beauty of the scene emerged. To get

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Did You Know?, On the Beaton Track, Outbackbird photography, Cooper Creek, floods, Innaminka