Fantails are such quick little birds that it is hard to get a good image of them. I have been trying for many years and on a recent walk to the Hamurana Springs there was no shortage of fantails to photograph. I spent so much time with the fantails that I didn’t get to the […]
While I was watching the gannets at Muriwai I noticed one that was a different colour. I was slightly confused because I had read that when the gannet chicks first fly, they continue out to sea and off to Australia in their first flight, so I knew it wasn’t a young gannet. I photographed it
Having never been to the Muriwai Gannet Colony before I had no idea what to expect. I had been told you can’t get as close to them as you can at Cape Kidnappers but I suspect that is slowly changing because the colony is obviously growing and the birds were indeed fairly close to the
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On our way North we stopped by the gannet colony at Muriwai (these will be the subjects of my next post) and I was very surprised to see nesting white-fronted terns in between the gannets on a steep bank. Unfortunately I didn’t have my extender with me so these are crops and not the best
I am still working my way through my holiday images and probably will be for some weeks to come! Today is just a few of the ones that really weren’t very special and almost made it to the trash can. Instead I had a play with some filter effects to see if I could make
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We spent a couple of days in Rotorua and visited Wai-O-Tapu during this time. It is one of the places that we go back to again and again. This time I wanted to try something a little different. I was keen to see what effect a 30 second exposure would have on the steam rising
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The first time I visited Tiritiri Matangi Island was not long after my back injury and I was not able to walk all that well. Determination is what both what got me there and through the walk to the light house and back. So you would think that knowing the walk I would make sure
We have just returned from a trip up North and I have lots of images to process over the next few weeks. I have started on a few this morning – these are from a visit to Wingspan in Rotorua and are of the male New Zealand Falcon – Kārearea. Still getting used to the
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Yesterday we made another visit to Waikanae, and the Waimanu Lagoon. Unfortunately someone forgot to send the memo to the birds because when we arrived, there were very few there. I sat and watched a little shag busy diving for dinner. It appeared to be swallowing something most times it surfaced but I had to
A friend issued me a challenge recently which I have done in the past but not with the new camera, so I thought I would give it a go today. I chose today because was overcast, raining and I was inside, so shooting though a not so clean window. I was putting lots of barriers
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