Day 476, Red Red Wine

Tonight we were just about to settle in for a home movie night. The carafe was filled, the wine poured, and the room glowed with the colours of the screen. As I sat there I watched the light shift and dance as it reflected from the carafe and wine glasses. At that moment I decided […]

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Day 475, Mister Urchin

Nearly a year ago I met the amazing marine scientist Ashley Miskelly on a dive trip to the outer parts of the Great Barrier Reef. He changed forever my perspective of the word ‘urchin’. By the end of that trip he had us all ignoring the stunning corals, the beautiful tropical reef fish and the […]

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Day 474, Cormorant Silhouette

I love the way water sparkles. Capturing an image of sparkling water full of dazzling specular highlights is not as simple as pointing the camera at it! This will almost never capture the feel because, well a captured image does no sparkle! So to make that sparkle look good I needed a model and this […]

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Day 473, Forgotten

There is an old cemetery up Mount Crawford way. I had driven past it many times without actually seeing it. Funny how often we do not see things we have looked at over and over again. I’d even seen cars parked there. Even wondered why they were parked there and still not seen it. I […]

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Day 472, White-faced Heron

One of the great things about writing to my images is learning about the things I capture. Maybe I have seen this species of bird before but I certainly could not have been sure let alone describe it. Now I can say with reasonable confidence, it is a white faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae which literally […]

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