The unmistakable effect of ‘shallow depth of field’ can bring the most mundane scene into dramatic relief. Looking around at the world, our eyes and our brains remove this effect and in our minds we imagine we see everything in sharp detail. Nothing could be further from reality. The uncomplicated view of a camera and […]
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Crabs might not be the most exciting of critters unless you are a foody, a marine biologist or a scuba diver. Most crabs are really quite cool and collected critters that just go about their business picking their way through aquatic carrion oblivious to everything going on around them. This makes them ideal subjects to […]
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It’s 8 kilometres off-shore and 60 feet below waves reflecting a midnight sky. Sleepy critters hang in the watery darkness tolerant to the terrestrial visitor in their midst. I am on my own down here and my strobes have just failed, … again. It is a recurring problem I’ve not gotten to the bottom of […]
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The problem with capturing birds in flight is that; well they’re in flight! Unless of course they can hover under joystick control. Jokes aside it took me a while before I was convinced that this bird was worth capturing. It will never compete with a full size DSLR hanging under a five figure professional drone, […]
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We were having a quiet celebratory drink in the Garden of Unearthly Delights and noticed a possum in a tree beside one of the tables. I good omen I thought so that’s where we decided to sit. It hung around for a while then climbed up high out of sight. We had forgotten it until […]
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