We have met some lovely people while sitting photographing the white fantail. Many of them locals who had no idea it was even there. Today a Girl Guide Leader from Hawera asked us why everyone was heading to the river with big cameras. She was extremely surprised when we told her and it wasn’t long […]
Two weeks have passed and I am once again in Stratford photographing the delightful leucistic fantail. I have a different photog friend with me this time and we are spending every spare minute in the park with our cameras. Then back to the tourist flat to download and cull the images we have taken. So […]
Some months ago I saw a post about a white fantail in Taranaki. The images were so amazing I was determined to get to see the bird myself. Unfortunately for me, my calendar was pretty full until the end of August – so I booked a trip with a couple of friends on the off […]
I didn’t take a huge number of photos on my trip to New Plymouth this time. I have to change my whole way of thinking when taking landscape images, so this slows me down a little. The two main subjects I concentrated on were Mount Taranaki (or Egmont as it was when I was growing up) and the […]