Dawn at sea
I've been slopped around all night in my bunk and woke to a 3am alarm to take watch til dawn. Seasickness has me grumbling and dry-throated (thanks Scopoderm), but as…
Blue day
Blue sea, blue sky, mirroring each other. The sea is oily, but this is just a pretence of calm. Less than an hour ago, we leapt off Pokohinu - Burgess…
Night critters
Over the past year, I've been making more and more images of things that aren't birds. I'm fortunate to work on many predator-free island where there are reptile and invertebrates…
Views from the Chathams
Here's a few quick photos from the Chatham islands. I've been zooming out a bit recently and trying to look more at the landscapes I'm in as well as the…
Beeman
This view, even mist-bound, is one of my favourites. The winding boardwalk down from the ridge past Beeman hill on Campbell island. Dracophyllum and tan-tussock, bright juicy green Bulbinella leaves…
Beachwind
It's beachy weather, a hot blue sky with white froths of cloud. The sun is a hammer of heat, tempered by a chill wind blowing out to sea. It comes…
Short updates for now!
Between fieldwork, finding and moving into a new flat, and all the other bits and pieces of life, I have very little time to write at the moment. I have…
My Best bird photos of 2020
A follow up to the worst, here's my favourite photographs from the hellscape that was 2020!
My Worst bird photos of 2020
It's okay to take shitty photos, as long as you learn from them! Here's my "worst of" for 2020, because not every photo is going to win you awards.
All the small things
Here are a few wee things that have been making me happy recently: Fat, fiery sunsets Tiny wee storm petrels Little grinning geckos The honeyed scent of tī kōuka (cabbage…
“Fast-food” photography
I go through cycles with the social media side of photography. Sometimes I’m excited and driven to share stories, and other times I go on a months-long hiatus not because…
Paikea
You never know what you might see, when you head out to sea. A few weeks ago on a routine plankton-sampling trip we met this beautiful Humpback whale - paikea…