Rightio, so every year I go along to the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year finalist exhibition at the SA Museum and think “fuck, how cool would it be to get a finalist?” And most years I enter a few pics with hopeless optimism and get the ‘tough titties your photos are shitty’ email reply. And that’s OK. These competitions suck anyway. You know, unless you actually get a finalist. Then they suck a lot less.
After the shit show that was the club’s 2,500 word email reaction to my review of last year’s awards, I’ve decided to mix it up a bit this year and do the review a bit differently. Including releasing it before the actual awards.
What? Me a twitcher? Didn’t see that coming? That’s OK, neither did I. Much like people don't see me coming now my idea of high fashion is dressing like a shrub. And like most things I’ve done in my life, there was no real plan it just sort of… happened. One day you’re a perfectly [...]
Decided to sneak in a bit of a bird nerd yesterday in between work stuff. So did a meeting in the morning then headed out north. There'd been a reported sighting of a White Bellied Sea Eagle so went chasing wild gooses. Went to a part of the International Bird Sanctuary, and if ever you [...]
Telling stories is never as much fun when people can’t laugh at all the shit that goes wrong, and after a few days of amazing craziness and plenty of things going a bit tits up as has been known to happen on my adventures, our final day, which is the one after the one that [...]
We’re now two days into our four day tour which means there’s three days to go and that makes absolutely no sense and neither does anything else that’s about to happen. By now the only ‘shower’ I’ve had is the snorkel in the ocean the day before but I’m about to get a very comprehensive [...]
After a pretty fun first day, I wake up full of beans after what was, all things considered, a fairly decent night sleep in a swag, only to find a second, much bigger python about six feet away from where I’m sleeping. Everyone said it was much bigger than the first one but I’m pretty [...]
So I get a call late on Friday - do I want to go shoot some stuff somewhere? We leave Monday. There's no way I can do it with existing work commitments but then someone mentions birds and hello, what time do we leave? I'm in. Even though I have very little idea what I'm [...]
If like most of us, your calendar is looking decidedly fucking empty for the next three or forever months, welcome to the Covid Club. And we’ve all seen the announcements about things being cancelled and fuck, we get it. It’s all cancelled. Everything. But not really. Some things aren’t cancelled. There’s plenty of awesome things [...]
I'm not really a fan of being called a 'grinch' just because I don't celebrate western Christmas or even the Gregorian New Year. I'm not particularly offended by it, mind you, but I also don't love it. Each to their own. And for as long as I can remember, I've just not really been one [...]
