One photo focus – May

For the first time ever, I am participating in another photography project, hosted by Stacy Fischer at Visual Venturing.  What makes “One Photo Focus” interesting is that it challenges photographers from around the globe to focus their image processing talents on a single image.  Yes, we are all working on the same picture!  This happens on…

Yellow-Billed Spoonbill

Bird Photography Challenge #17: Yellow-Billed Spoonbill

A distinctive and handsome wader, the Yellow-Billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes) is sensitive to changing water availability.  You often see pairs, but less frequently do they appear in large flocks.   So when in November after a period of heavy rainfall a large group was feeding in the Western Wetlands, near Melbourne, it was a delight to…

Adventure with a big ‘A’

Recently my cousin Michel, who knows our passion for adventure, introduced us to the amazing work of photographer and film maker Richard Sidey  during expeditions which took him to the polar regions. Richard Sidey is based in Wanaka, New Zealand.  Part of his assignments include being the official photographer on expedition vessels.  When I think of ‘the dream job’,…