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Tips from a Judge: How You Can Win the Next Big Nature Photography Competition

Reading Time: 3 minutesAustralian Geographic just announced that this year’s ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year competition is now open. I believe this is one of the most lucrative competitions available at present. It’s almost like a big secret. Everyone knows about the BBC wildlife competition, but hardly anyone knows about this Australian regional equivalent. In both cases […]

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Let’s Encourage Young Photographers

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’d like to acknowledge a budding young nature and wildlife photographer, Mikaela Clews. She won the Young Encourage-ment award at the recent Gosford Council photo competition. Mikaela Clews deserves a lot of credit for getting out into the bushlands around Gosford, New South Wales. The aim of the photo competition was to portray how nature

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Photo Competitions, Photo Critiquesbird photography, photo competition, photographers, wildlife photography, youth

Paul’s Silhouette Success

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my favorite topics to post is a photo from a student. I was chatting to Paul Collis after he and his wife came back from the Kimberley, Western Australia. They had printed out a selection of recipes from my photography cookbook to take along on their travels. Paul specifically wanted to try one

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Photo Critiques, Photography Bookslandscape photography, Nature photography, silhouettes

Waterfall Trickery

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s great when you learn from your students. The last Day Safari workshop was a big fun day out. We shot wildlife in the morning and waterfalls in the late afternoon. Participants quickly understood how to use different shutter speeds to create various amounts of “silkiness” in the waterfall. But my students taught me something

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Landscape Photography, Photo Critiques, Photography Workshops, Quick TipsNature photography, waterfalls

Meredith’s Superb Wren and the Great Tripod Debate

Reading Time: 2 minutesThanks to everyone for the great comments on my first blog post. I’m really stumped by who could be behind some of those quirky aliases! Instead of one of my photos, I’d like to post a winner sent in by Meredith Foley, one of my Day Safari participants. She’s asked a question and I’m sure

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Photo Critiquesbird images, bird photography, birds, photo critique, telephoto lens, tripods