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On a recent trip to Perth to visit Soraya and baby Arthur I photographed a beautiful pair of Currawongs. Little bubba li...
06/09/2026

On a recent trip to Perth to visit Soraya and baby Arthur I photographed a beautiful pair of Currawongs. Little bubba likes walks, he likes looking up at the trees and the light and there are many good walk trails close to home. On one of these little jaunts Soraya showed me where the Currawongs live. Apparently, they are always in the same general area. So good to see them in an urban environment. A string of parks and reserves link up to create a green corridor that in some respects is working. These birds definitely have a quirky character to them? Dad used to say half crow half magpie when he saw them. It is the yellow eye that draws me in. Stunning golden yellow with its own special luminescence, against agains the rich darkness of the feathers. It was pouring with rain, actually a good thing because it often creates interesting light, you can capture raindrops in motion and sparkles and colours are more vibrant. It was very dark so camera settings were pushed out to the limits but I managed to capture some images. It turned out to be a very interesting encounter. They were in hunting mode. Intense. Pulling the bark off tree trunks and then catching little bugs that lived underneath. In some images you can see the recently stripped bark. I didn’t manage to get a clear image of the prey, there is one image, looked like silver tails, maybe?

A Western Whistler formerly known by the far better name of Golden Whistler photographed at my camp along the river. On...
05/09/2026

A Western Whistler formerly known by the far better name of Golden Whistler photographed at my camp along the river. One of my favourite little birds, probably because yellow is my favourite colour, along with Green and Purple!! I usually see Yellow Robins and Golden Whistlers together. The Robins are a paler, softer, more subtle shade of yellow while the Whistlers are bright, vibrant and golden!! I have taken many images of this species but only rarely have managed to get a good level of detail on the dark face and eye. It is difficult to photograph black plumage in a dark forest, the angle of the light has to be just right, so I was pretty happy with this one!! Interesting to see that the eye is a rich chestnut brown colour!!

Portrait of a Hoverfly. We have an amazing event coming up here at Northcliffe. The Northcliffe Bee Festival 💛 A celebra...
04/09/2026

Portrait of a Hoverfly. We have an amazing event coming up here at Northcliffe. The Northcliffe Bee Festival 💛 A celebration of bees, a fantastic line up of speakers with a broad range of topics, some wonderful events including a Bee Safari with PembertonDiscoveryTours . Would love to see you there. I will be talking about the unique flora we have in the south west corner and some of the truly bizarre and fascinating pollination mechanisms that exist. Woven through my presentation will be some of my favourite images and also themes around photography and storytelling. This little critter looks like a bee but is actually a Hoverfly, Simosyrphus grandicornis commonly known as the yellow-shouldered stout Hoverfly. I photographed him last year on the beautiful blue sun orchids. Deception and trickery are rife amongst our flora and insects. This little fella is a textbook example of Batesian mimicry where a harmless, defenseless organism copies the warning signs of a dangerous or toxic species to avoid being eaten by predators. He is probably quite tasty but everyone thinks twice before eating him because he has yellow and black stripes, a furry body and big dark eyes. He is one of the cutest insects I have ever photographed, I didn’t even think about eating him. Hoverflys are masters of flight their wings move at 250 beats per second. They have some of the most advanced flight mechanisms known. Very fascinating creatures.

I have been slowly writing a Photography and Storytelling Workbook for the participants on my camps. There are a whole l...
02/09/2026

I have been slowly writing a Photography and Storytelling Workbook for the participants on my camps. There are a whole lot of different lessons, mixed with my own stories in a spiral type structure that deepens with each chapter. Written for the participants on my camps but also something I can use in smaller workshops with a focus on one particular aspect of photography or storytelling. It is a work in progress and probably something that will constantly change going forward. Interestingly, one of the lessons is about photographing change. Capturing a sense of impermenance in an image is powerful. It pulls at a deeper level. When it comes to change we really are all in the same boat. Nothing stays the same, except the fact that everything is changing all of the time. My relationship with change is interesting. It can be extremely destabilising, it is worse when I fight it? Ultimately I have realised that change is not a good enemy. It will always win. Knowing this doesn’t really make it easier to deal with especially when several big changes happen at once. Acceptance is likely key, but not an easy thing to achieve. I think the uneasiness I feel toward change is probably why I am drawn to photograph it. Perfect newly opened flowers and orchid are beautiful but so to are those that are dying, their petals twisted and tangled, the colours fading. On a recent camping trip we found many of these Banksia plants. The flowers were finished but the seed nuts were stunning. Rich tans and interesting shapes and textures. This particular one had me fascinated. Very happy to jag a deep blue background using a gap in the foliage. I had lots of images of perfect flowers from the trip but this one was my favourite because it captures change.

Portrait of a White Winged Fairy Wren.  I had never seen one before. For several years I have been meaning to seek this...
02/09/2026

Portrait of a White Winged Fairy Wren.  I had never seen one before. For several years I have been meaning to seek this little fellow out, but for various reasons it hasn’t happened.  Very harsh, dry salt lake country.  Quinns Lake is massive, miles of very low dense scrub with no trees. There seemed to be very little bird life so I decided to go for a long walk to a patch of thick green vegetation way off in the distance.  I eventually got there, winding through the prickly saltbush and samphire, crusty ground breaking with each step. I was rewarded with the sound of birds.  Tiny ones, grey feathered bodies smaller than a very small mouse!!  I didn’t know what they were.  Wren like, but the call was unfamiliar and they seemed smaller than usual Fairy Wrens.  My questions were answered when this beautiful little male emerged from a thick prickly bush to survey his salty kingdom.  Perched for a few seconds, tall and proud, surrounded by the call of several females in adjacent vegetation.  I was so happy!! Seeing this little one in such arid , hungry country was totally unexpected!!  I have since learnt that these little ones are quite widespread and live in arid habitats.  As out trip continued we passed through a lot of saltlake country and these little guys seemed to be prolific, although very difficult to photograph!!

Wild Wing Images has been extremely busy over the last few months. It has been a juggle, a good one but a lot of differe...
31/08/2026

Wild Wing Images has been extremely busy over the last few months. It has been a juggle, a good one but a lot of different responsibilities and commitments have kind of collided. I have a backlog of images to process and stories to tell so hopefully will have a few posts out soon. My 2026 Photography and Storytelling Camp is coming together beautifully. We have an awesome group of Woman, different ages, different levels of experience, different backgrounds but a shared love of nature. For me, the highlight of last years’ camp was how we interacted as a group, sharing knowledge, experience and ideas. There was a lot of laughter and a lot of learning. I am very excited to do it all again. Over the weekend I went for a few walks around my property to check on different spots. Wonderful discovery of a Leaping Spider orchid in flower. Also lots of buds, Sun orchid buds, Hammer Orchids and Flying Ducks all coming along. I find that when life gets a bit overwhelming spending time in nature really helps. Yesterday I went back and photographed the Spider orchid. Very beautiful. Today I have done 8 laps in my freezing swimming dam. Brain and body are awake and the day is underway.

Double Trouble - A beautiful pair of baby Black Shouldered Kites photographed a while back. I had been following these t...
22/08/2026

Double Trouble - A beautiful pair of baby Black Shouldered Kites photographed a while back. I had been following these two very gorgeous juvenile Black Shouldered Kites for a couple of week but they live a long way from my home and work so I only managed a few visits. Each time I found them in their soggy paddock filled with swampy weeds, grass and old dead paperbark trees. When you spot one the other is never far away, usually perched on an adjacent tree or branch, occasionally on the same branch. I had been hoping for a picture of them together for a while but they never sat close enough for long enough. Finally on a long, cold, wet, freezing morning they did! I was so excited and managed to get close enough for a few shots but it was dark and overcast. Very difficult light. I played around with the shots in Lightroom, adjust exposure, highlights and selectively lightening and sharpening the faces and eyes...and am pretty happy with the result! These guys have now grown up and are probably making babies of their own.

The nights in the forest were very cold. Interestingly it always seems to be the coldest in the hour before dawn. Remi...
14/08/2026

The nights in the forest were very cold. Interestingly it always seems to be the coldest in the hour before dawn. Reminds me of the old saying ‘Darkest before Dawn’. I am usually awake pretty early so tended to head out of camp about 5.30am, drive deeper into the forest to a spot I wanted to explore and then stop to boil some water and make a thermos of tea and wash my face. It is nice to watch the forest come alive with the light. Slowly slowly, the sky turns from black to my favourite deep indigo becoming progressively lighter. Colour comes with the light, and eventually the sun breaks over the horizon. The colour fades and patches of light and warmth pe*****te the canopy. The patches of sunlight constantly shift as the sun rises, highlighting different aspects, colours, textures and patterns. I have often heard the wailing murderous call of the Bush Stone-curlew when camped in the desert but have rarely seen them and never photographed them. A friend had told me about a family often seen near my camp. Expertly camouflaged, and standing very still, my eye caught an unusual shape and I realised it was a pair of Bush Stone-curlews. I spent the early morning observing these strange creatures and was really happy to capture the two together in a patch of sunlight against a dark background of forest texture and colour. Two images one a closer crop, the other a broader view. My favourite kind of image brings sense of environment to the frame. -curlew

This image is of a Rainbow Bee Eater, captured at at an urban lagoon on the river with my Nikon D800E and Nikon 80-400mm...
14/08/2026

This image is of a Rainbow Bee Eater, captured at at an urban lagoon on the river with my Nikon D800E and Nikon 80-400mm lens. Rainbow Bee Eaters are migratory birds and arrive in Perth in October and November to breed. Their nest is actually in the ground, a long shallow burrow usually constructed in sandy soil. The colours of these birds are stunning, almost beyond belief when you see them in the sunlight. The most subtle shades of green and blue with a bright splash of golden yellow and intense red eyes. This image was captured late in the day when the sun was low in the sky. In the preceding week there had been several huge bush fires on the outskirts of our city. The sky was smoggy, dark and filled with smoke. Somehow this seemed to make the light more beautiful, enhancing the colours and feather detail of all the images I took that day. These birds are difficult to photograph because they fly extremely fast with unpredictable aerial manoeuvres. After some observation I realised they were sitting on the branches of a dead tree and flying out to catch insects usually returning to the same branch to eat their unlucky prey. Once I realised this I focused the camera just above the branch and waited for one to fly into the field of view. Eventually, it happened and I captured a few images.

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