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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…
Let’s look at Lomatia | Kings and Guitars
A bit of background on Lomatia Lomatia is a genus of plants in the Proteaceae family. Chances are the plants that comes to mind when you think Proteaceae is Protea, Banksia and Grevillea. You would be correct, although the Proteaceae world is much bigger than these three species. There are about 79 genera in all, and majority of them are found in the southern hemisphere. We have about 46 and the rest are found throughout…
Tasmanian Orchids | Caves that are handsome | Tafoni
Tasmania’s orchids | Peter Fehre May’s Tasmanian Field Naturalist Club meeting was one of my favourites to date. Yeah, I am biased, because I love Tasmania’s native orchid population, but then who doesn’t right. We were lucky enough to have Peter Fehre come along and give us a run down on a whole bunch of endemic orchids, who they are, where they live, when they flower and also show us his remarkable photography. Including the…
Omphalotus nidiformis | Glow in the dark fungi
Omphalotus nidiformis, or the ‘ghost fungi’ as it is commonly known, is a species of fungi which is quite often found growing in southern Australia, which of course means Tasmania. Generally found at the base of Eucalyptus or exotic trees on living or dead wood. What does it look like in the day? It is quite a large species reaching up to 20cm in diameter, perhaps even larger. As with most fungi, it depends on…
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. Woodvine would not…
Aurora Australis | What The HECK
It would be negligent of me to not acknowledge the massive reaction of charged particles which recently got ejected from the sun and reacted with the various gases in the atmosphere… Or what is commonly referred to as the Aurora Australis. Holy freaking shit balls. That was the most insane sky I have ever seen. Granted, over the past few years I haven’t really spent much time out after dark chasing auroras. However, in the years that I did (and the stupid amount of time I gave up sleeping…
Western wilderness wandering
Not a huge amount of wandering on our last trip up the west coast. There was a bit, as much as can be possible at times with small children and not so small children. This time we really had no plans at all, other than head up to Rosebery and crash for a few nights with some mates. The only definite was to get to Strahan, to capture portals and make fields, although I didn’t get the keys from New Norfolk to make the fields, so…