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Start of a new day
Do you ever get that ‘now what’ feeling? Where something is finished and you’re left empty, casing around for something else to do? It’s a bit how I feel at the moment, one project set free and now...
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The case of the curious cockatoo
Cockatoos are very smart birds – very smart animals. One of my favourites is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, a big white bird with a big loud squawk and a big powerful beak that thinks nothing of chewing...
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‘No photography’– just another scam
I arrived at Trinity College Dublin with a spring in my step, my trusty camera slung over my shoulder. I’d come to see the famous old library, known as the Long Room and Trinity’s most valuable...
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With the rain comes the rainbow birds
We’ve had a lot of unseasonal rain lately, causing a change in our bird visitors. Every garden has its locals and our’s is no different. We have a colony of noisy miner birds, a bunch of butcher birds...
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Bathing in danger
We have a backyard swimming pool and we’re not the only ones who enjoy a dip on a warm summer’s day. Now bear in mind we have a quite large bird bath set up right next to the pool and we keep it clean...
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Ducking around
Our swimming pool attracts all sorts of critters and I suppose the most obvious one would be ducks. This pair landed in the water one day last year and started a bobbing courtship dance. Eventually the...
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Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
None of the above. And it isn’t a UFO, either. I took this photo an hour or two after sunrise. The sun is quite a way to the left of this image. What’s happened is that sunlight has been reflected and...
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Leap for your life
I was down on the spit at the creek one morning earlier in the year, waiting for dawn as the tide came in. I noticed fish jumping, no doubt escaping the jaws of a predator and took my chance to see...
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Always check your battery BEFORE you go out
A walk down the beach is about my favourite form of exercise, one I’m privileged to be able to indulge regularly. These days, I always have my camera by my side, ready for a photo opportunity. But this...
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A specially awesome day
I always take my camera to the beach and today was a specially awesome day with the camera. We went early, to escape the heat, more than anything. As you can see, there was a shower around. We said...
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Creating a composite picture in Photoshop
The joy of photography for me is capturing a unique moment in time and freezing it. Motion is beautiful, to be sure, but it happens so quickly, we don’t see what is actually happening. Professionals...
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It was just an ordinary day. Until the invasion…
We get birds where we live. Lots of them. Since we don’t have pets, the birds (and the occasional possum) provide us with entertainment. Especially when we leave food out for them. I recently...
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Ord River buzz
The highlight of our visit to Kununurra was a trip on the Ord River. After all, without the Ord River, Kununurra wouldn’t exist. The town was created in the sixties, when one of the visionary Duracks,...
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Along the mighty Fitzroy
Next stop on the Big Trip was Fitzroy Crossing, a comfortable 650km or so down the road – including a side trip to the old port of Wyndham which used to service the cattle trade and has now expanded...
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Never smile at a crocodile
Salt water crocodiles. Australia’s greatest predator. Ancient, wily, aggressive and absolutely deadly. I didn’t get a chance to see one in the wild. Here’s a bit more technical info about the crocs....
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An exhilirating freak of nature
A horizontal waterfall. The very concept is strange. How can water fall horizontally? It can and it does, provided you have the intersection of a number of factors. That combination occurs in the...
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Some motels are crummier than others
Picking motels from the internet has its pitfalls – especially as you pay when booking. We chose to be careful and booked a motel room in Karratha online from Port Hedland. We’re staying two nights so...
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The world has continued to turn
It’s always interesting returning to a place you knew very, very well. You have a picture in your head, a deep memory in glowing technicolour. The beach, sunset on the river, summer days, winter...
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Heading for the hills
Back in the car again we head for the hills. Literally. Perth is hemmed in to the west by the Indian Ocean and to the east, the Darling Range, an escarpment which rises abruptly, if not very high. We...
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Chasing rainbows
Esperance is down on the southern West Australian coastline, an absolute jewel for those willing to take the time to visit. Showers accompany us along the road from Albany and rainbows appear – on both...
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