We are lucky to have so many wildlife opportunities within an easy 20 minute drive from where we live. The Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve is one of the best. Every visit produces different images, different birds, different light. It never gets boring!
Lately I have been spending time in a local waterway where the white heron is often found. I have become fascinated with pukeko instead. The sun brings out their colours beautifully and I have come home with so many interesting images that this post will have nothing else. Very little words but lots of pukeko …
For many years now, each Winter there is a very special visitor to Petone, in particular the Hutt River estuary. George has claimed one of the boats as his own and can often be found in or around the boat. He also has several other favourite spots that I am still learning about. A pond …
It’s that time of year again when there are fledglings appearing in the gardens and frantic parent birds busy trying to feed the hungry mouths that constantly call for food. I am still waiting to see the first Silvereye youngster – they are a little late this year, but a friend showed an image of …
The pukeko family reside in a stream just down the road a bit from where I live, so they are easy to visit at a moment’s notice when the light is right. I was perhaps a little too early on this visit, as the dragonflies and damselflies were not visible – which also meant the …
When I first arrived, there wasn’t a pukeko to be seen anywhere. Plenty of ducks, a couple of kingfishers and a magpie but no pukeko. I was pretty certain that there should be chicks there at this time of year but was a little disappointed not even to see any adults. Then a head poked …
Yesterday a fellow photographer and I went for a trip out to Staglands. Being a Friday it was virtually empty of people and a very relaxing space to have lunch and of course make a few images. Staglands is a place where it doesn’t matter how often you go there, you can always come away …
One of the benefits of working for myself, is that I can give myself a short working week. Fridays are the day I have set aside for my photography. When the weather doesn’t play nice, then I can work on tidying up my images and get on with cataloguing them, but when it is good then …
When most people head to the beach, I go in the opposite direction. There are several small wetlands within the Wellington Region and thankfully none of them involve huge amounts of walking. So yesterday I was out with my camera visiting a small wetland. I really enjoy the quiet (other than the birds, flys, cicadas …
My foot is taking a lot longer to heal than the other one did, so I have not been out with the camera anywhere near as much as I would like. Last weekend I tried – we headed up to Waikanae without even checking the tide – first mistake. When we got there all I saw was …
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