Photographing Nature | Nicely
What constitutes the perfect nature photo? Is it the detail and the sharpness? The composition? The balance of colour and light or the way they interact? Perhaps it is all those things and no doubt you will come up with a whole range of different factors which contribute to creating the perfect image. In reality there is no perfect image. There is perfect to you, perfect to me and perfect to them, but chances are…
Happy (serrated tussock) Days | The Four Legged Fonz
Those who know me, know I am not really much of a dog person. When I encounter dogs of any shape or size, I tend to immediately protect my throat, in fear they will go straight for it. When I am out in the bush I always have one ear out, listening for that pack of wild dogs which could be silently moving through the scrub hunting me down. There is no real life basis…
Shadow Lake in the snow
There is something rather special about snow covered landscapes. Everyone loves them, well, everyone seems to love them in some capacity. Even if they aren’t fans of being cold, or the potential risk of being cold, they still have a love for snowy mountains and frozen lakes. I’m one of those people who love being in the cold, preferably with thermals and an array of warm clothing so I am not actually cold, however it…
I wrote a story
I shall be taking long service leave from my fight photography work, effective immediately. All fight albums shall remain on the website () until the end of the month. (originally was going to be the end of the year) Galleries are going to be disabled at the end of the month. It costs me to keep them there with purchasing enabled and I’ve decided I don’t want to pay another 3 months worth. My other…
Mount Misery | Still Not Miserable
Tas Field Nats ascend upon Mount Misery What a marvellous Sunday was spent wandering the tracks at Mount Misery with an equally marvellous group of people. The Field Nats last visited Mount Misery in 2018, you can read about it here. That post will give you some info on the walks and how to get there. I won’t bother repeating myself. I’m efficient like that… Back in 2018 I was going through a pretty strong fungi phase. Can’t remember if that was before or after my orchid one. Potentially…
Herbarium | Day Ten
We found this weird Stellaria up in the central plateau a while back. We didn’t really notice it was weird at first. We just kinda went ‘it’s a Stellaria, it’s probably just S. multiflora’ and then moved along looking for what we were there looking for. Which was a Senecio and some Carex. Anyways, I took some photos, because it was really cute and planned to just ID it later. Turns out, that Stellaria multiflora (both subspecies) don’t actually have flowers. Well they do, but they don’t. They don’t…
Woodvine Wandering | Day Ten
Woodvine Nature Reserve Out the back of Forcett is a 377 hectare property which is managed by the Parks and Wildlife Service as a nature reserve. It was donated to the crown a little while back by the landowner, Ernie Shaw. He understood the importance of what he had on his land. Not simply that it is significant habitat for a range of species and ecological communities which are under threat, but because he could see the amount of land clearing going on within the area.…