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Whitsunday Islands Photography Sailing Safari

I’ve been wanting to do longer than one-day workshops and heres’s one that will thrill some of you to bits. Together with Southern Cross Sailing Adventures, I’ll be running workshops aboard a well-known tall ship, the Solway Lass. But wait, theres’s more! It will be in the Whitsundays, a land beautiful beyond belief. There’s the […]

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Announcements, Landscape Photography, Photography Tours, Photography Workshops, Queensland, Travel Photography, Workshops & CoursesNature photography, sailing tour

Think the Reciprocal Rule is safe? It fails with high resolution cameras

Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) on nest among casuarina trees, Lake Tuggerah, Central Coast, New South Wales

The reciprocal rule is handy to know when you are hand-holding your camera, especially with a long lens attached. It states “always use a shutter speed whose reciprocal is faster than the focal length of the lens”. So if you’re hand-holding a 500 mm lens, you have to use a shutter speed of 1/500 or

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Bird Images, Photography Techniques, Photography Workshops, Quick Tips, Wildlife Photographybird photography, D810, flash photography, Nature photography, Nikkor lens, Nikon

28 Best Reasons to do Bird Photography

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) (subspecies coromandus) at nesting site, in willow tree, farm dam, Dooralong, Central Coast, New South Wales

Bird photography is the most challenging, difficult, expensive and time-consuming of all the areas of nature photography. Why on earth would anyone want to go to all that trouble? But something’s going on, because not only is there a rapid rise in bird watching, but also in nature and wildlife photography. If you’re not already

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Bird Images, Photography Techniques, Photography Workshops, Wildlife Photographybird photography, Central Coast, photography workshop

Tripods and heads for Bird Photography

Gimbal head holding 200-500 mm zoom lens on Benbo tripod.

A tripod comes with three features: the legs, the head and the mount. Each is an important choice. Needless to say, the more solid and heavier the tripod, the more sturdily it will hold your long lens. A well-built tripod will last decades (like my magnificent and trusty Benbo as you can see by these

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Photography Equipment, Photography Techniques, Photography Workshops, Quick Tips, Wildlife Photography

Will I see you at the Australian Garden Show Sydney?

Here’s an article I wrote to help promote the Australian Garden Show Sydney. It’s happening this weekend! I’d love to see you there; you’ll find me at The Aperture Club’s tent.

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Announcements, Beautiful Images, Flower Photography, Flowers & botanicals, Macro Photography, Photography Workshops

Waterfall Trickery

It’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