Catching the light
I've just noticed how many of my recent post titles have the word 'light' in them. Which isn't surprising, I suppose, as light is what makes this whole 'seeing' and…
Island light
Occasionally, I find myself stuck on islands. I never mind - it's just part of the work I do. We can't control the weather or the sea. More time away…
Gratitudes
I am standing on a knife edge. The sea breathes below, hushing into narrow inlets through tumbled stone and washing quietly against steep cliffs. The breeze is gentle, a welcome…
Making time
In the throes of writing my Master's thesis, it would be very easy for me to say "I don't have time" for things like photography, blog-writing, reading, relaxing. But I'm…
Birds in the sea, fish in the sky
I never get tired of seabirds (that much is probably obvious by now). One of my challenges is taking photos of them underwater, when I myself am not underwater. Underwater…
Patterns
We are wired to look for patterns. It's why we see cloud-animals, and faces in everyday objects. We find regular, repeating, symmetric things pleasing to look at. I'm always looking…
On luck
There's a lot to be said for luck in wildlife photography. Most of my photos I don't plan in advance, and I just take what comes. I react to what's…
On the joy of image-making
It's very easy to feel negative about our own photography. With a deluge of new, amazing photos alighting on our Instagram feeds every day, it's often hard not to feel…
Another handful of Geelong birds
It was Dad processing photos for a blog this morning that reminded me I didn't have anything written. It's nice to be home, briefly, for the holiday season. I'm still…
Portraits from Geelong
I stuffed quite a bit of photography into my brief time in Geelong - both during the conference and after it! A lot of what I've been doing this year…
Get distracted
Photography is about focus. I'm not apologising for that pun. Obviously images being sharp is a good start. But to get good, sharp images, it's also important to be concentrated…
Thoughts on Birds in Flight
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…
Eastern Rockhopper penguins, Auckland Island
Choosing photos for competitions
The New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year competition closes this week. Which means for the past month, I've been trawling through my galleries from the past year and agonising.…
Western Springs
Western Springs is very close to where I live in Auckland. It's a big park with a (kinda nasty in places...although not too nasty because there's eels in there) lake…
Levitating fantails
The last three weeks weeks have been hectic and I've only just realised that I hadn't written a blog for today. So here's two photos I took this morning! Fantails…