The journey since Antarctica
It's been a while since I went through my Antarctica photos. There are a few images from that trip that I'm really quite proud of - but there's plenty more…
Recently: Gannets and Staying Creative
How many ways can you photograph the same subject? I've been out to Muriwai so many times over the past few months, and while it's always different, the main subjects…
Take Shitty Photos
I take hundreds of thousands of photos every year. Whenever I return from a trip somewhere, people will ask me how many photos I’ve taken, as if this somehow qualifies…
Blue skies and big swells
I spend a lot of time on the Bridge when we're at sea. Usually I'm looking for birds, but I also really enjoyed using the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye on my…
Albatross and their Islands
It started with this photo: On New Year's day 2016, leaving Campbell Island, I made this image of a Campbell albatross with cloud-wreathed Campbell Island in the background. It ended…
Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 for seabird photography
Let me start by saying I loved using this lens. Loved it. One of my main aims on a subantarctic trip is pelagic bird photography, which can often be a…
Gear update – Nikon D500
So a while back I lost a lot of camera gear to a freak wave. While that kinda sucked at the time, on the flip side it's given me the opportunity to get…
The Pyramid – Chatham Islands
The Pyramid (Tarakoikoia) is a mighty rise of rock at the southern end of the Chatham Islands. It's classified as an Important Bird Area because it's the only place in…
The Booby Saga
I’ve always been a birdwatcher. From a young age I’ve sat quietly in hides with a pair of binoculars, wandered rainforests staring up into the canopy, and awoken at frankly…
The big and the small
This photograph of a Southern Royal albatross and a Black-bellied Storm petrel is one of my favourite images. Not because it's a particularly stunning image, it's quite ordinary in every…
Bounty Islands
I have never seen so many seabirds in my life. The air above the Bounty Islands is dark - a mist that resolves through binoculars into a flurry of whirling albatross.…
The Gift
The Gift
On my 23rd birthday, I woke to the ship rocking in a way that indicated one thing to me. It wasn’t looking good for us to be able to land…
An Introduction to Subantarctic New Zealand
If you read the blog I posted before I left, you'll recognise this map: When I mention the subantarctic to people, they often comment on how much ice I'm going…
In 2016 I…
...took the first two landscape photos that I'm actually proud of: Landscape photography is something of a struggle for me, and I usually end up frustrated in lacklustre images. These…
Antipodes Island
Merry Christmas everyone! This time, I'm not going to write trip logs, nor will my blog be in chronological order. We're starting with one of the places I was absolutely…