Back in 2014 I had an opportunity to photograph a group of shore plovers just before they were captured and removed to a safer site. They are very rare and were suffering from predators so it was decided to place them in protection until they numbers had improved. Now a group of them have been […]
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 […]
Finally we get back to Alert Level 2 and Zealandia have a couple of member only days. I didn’t need to be asked twice, I was on my way there with a couple of fellow photogs who were just as keen to get back into the bush with the birds. The cobwebs have been dusted […]
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 […]
I have been spending much of the lock down going through my archives and the camera didn’t get picked up very much at all. Yesterday I felt the need to get back to taking photos, so I cleaned our front window and pointed the camera out through it. Yes I could have actually gone outside […]
My plans for this year have been thrown out the window and we have been in lock-down for almost a month now. Our trip to Canada has been put on hold, refunds gained where possible and credits where not. We have a lot of money tied up in credits so I am hoping that overseas […]
This year one of the challenges I have set for myself, is that if I go out with the camera, I must come back with some images, even if they are not what I went out looking for. Today the birds were not at home, so to get my images I looked for damselflies. I […]
When I was a young child I was a member of the Manurewa Athletic Club. Every week on Monday night we would be at the club and I would run in the 100 and 200 metre sprints. My father was the starter for the club for many years, so we were always there to the […]
With the walking track to the gannets closed the only way to get to the Cape Kidnappers gannet colony is via Gannet Safaris – Overland. They have air-conditioned four wheel drive buses that take you through the Cape Kidnappers Station out to the colony. I have done this trip many times now and each time […]
Yesterday evening we headed to the Hawkes Bay Sports Park to watch my cousin, Katherine Camp, run in the Elite Women’s 800m event. Katherine is working hard to get to the Tokyo Olympics and her mother asked me to take some photos of the race for her social media posts. I had not used my […]