I try and keep Friday’s free for a day of photography. It is one of the benefits of being self-employed. This week’s plan was a visit to Pūkaha where I photographed the riflemen last year. I was hoping to find a nesting pair again this year, but that didn’t happen on this visit. What I did manage to photograph there for the first time, was the yellow crowned kākāriki.
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The kōwhai flowering season is coming to an end, and with it the opportunities to photograph the tui from inside the house. Each year I strive to get a better image than the previous years, and I think I achieved that this time. I have been lucky that there were a couple of branches that
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We had a cold snap come through, so staying inside with the fire going was the order of the day. Didn’t stop the camera from working hard though. The tui still want to feed no matter how cold it is or how wet, so I sat watching them through the window and made these images.
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Each year when the kowhai trees flower in our neighbourhood, I know it is time to clean my dining room window to be ready for the rainy spring days. Why the window? Because I have two late flowering kowhai trees right outside the house and my large bay window allows me to use the house
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This morning was the first day that Aston Norwood Gardens were open for their cherry blossom festival. Being the first day, there was not as much blossom as their might be in a few days to a week’s time, but I have a busy schedule coming up and today was the only day I had
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Rain is never a good for photography in my opinion. I don’t like getting wet or cold, so I tend to stay indoors during the worst of Winter. However that doesn’t stop my bird photography from happening.
It is usually my intention to avoid man-made structures when photographing birds. Sometimes it is just best to go where the bird wants to go and if that’s on a wire then these are the results 🙂 These images were captured just as we were leaving Queen Elizabeth Park. My camera was turned off and
Our usual Friday outing was off to an early start this morning as we headed up Transmission Gully to Queen Elizabeth Park wetlands. I find that the water is usually very still and mirror like if we arrive there early enough and it was indeed very still today. However with it being duck shooting season,
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Usually we head to Zealandia on a Friday because there are less people about. Not today – there were groups of people everywhere! It’s great to see so many out enjoying the sunny weather in the valley. We went today with the goal of achieving some fantastic images and I believe I achieved my goal,
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For the last couple of weeks the Royal Spoonbills have taken over one of the ponds at the Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve and to the delight of many photographers and bird watchers, they forage for food right in front of a hide. I have visited them a couple of times now and witnessed behaviours that I
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