Bird hides are a great place to observe wildlife behaviour but as a photographer you are stuck in a fixed location. Wearing full camouflage over a wetsuit and risking gear in the water is one option but not something you pop out and do during a lunch break. This is my first opportunity to try […]
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Interference Patterns
Interference Patterns You might think these black swans are just feeding on crustaceans and molluscs in the shallows of Lake Alexandrina. You’d be forgiven to dismiss this as just another nature image. What is really going on here is that these swans are delving into the deeper nature of existence itself by testing the wave […]
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I had never imagined swans, black swans, as being anything other than freshwater birds so imagine my surprise exploring a spit of land off Pelican Point, Outer Harbour called Section Bank and coming across hundreds of black swans on a mission paddling their way east. Their destination perhaps might be Grey Point or even further […]
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My very first memories of this place come from photographs taken by my father when I was too young to remember. Swans on the Danube, misty fog in the autumn and snow in winter. Memories of photographs of feeding swans, of sledding through the streets of Aschach and bright eyes full of wonder. For 25 […]
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