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I've been looking for monochrome images while out shooting recently - paying more attention to light, shade, and contrast rather than colour. This photo - shot on an Albatross Encounter…
I've been looking for monochrome images while out shooting recently - paying more attention to light, shade, and contrast rather than colour. This photo - shot on an Albatross Encounter…
We had another stunning weekend in Ōtepoti for the Wildlife Photography Masterclass a few weeks ago! I've not run a workshop in spring before, so it was interesting to see…
This image is actually a still taken from a video, shot handheld on a rolling boat! There are four species of seabird cruising through the frame, and while the video…
A wee while ago I went up to Tāwharanui for a morning wander with Yusuf (see his photos here!), looking for birds, looking for light, looking for nice images. The…
Spring really is a fantastic time for bird photography, with babies abound. As well as the pīpīwharouroa from last week's post, I enjoyed following this pīwakawaka/pied fantail family around as…
Why you should vote #seabirdsnottreebirds and support toroa/Antipodean albatross for #BirdoftheYear
Lockdown is dragging on, and with delta cases popping up outside of Tāmaki Makaurau, I'm content to wait it out. That doesn't mean it's easy. I'm losing my field season,…
Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) is still in L4 lockdown, which means I can't do fieldwork. I'm running out of research-related things I can do. So as well as photographing backyard birds…
When korimako - bellbirds - are young, they learn to sing. They mimic the birds around then, stringing together strange combinations of burbling calls and whistles, disjointed melodies, until they…
Daytime kiwi. I spent a few weeks way down south on Rakiura two years ago hoping to bump into tokoeka during the day - Ulva island is famous for it,…
pīwakawaka - tīwaiwaka - New Zealand fantail - pied fantail In Aotearoa New Zealand, we have one species of fantail. It comes in two flavours - a pied morph (the…
Here's a few updates from the #birdventurenz ! I'm southbound with gusto - finally crossing the Cook Strait after spending the last few weeks around the North Island. The next…
Can you tell this blog was written today, in a bit of a hurry? Usually I have a buffer of blog posts that are scheduled to run - at the…