I thought I would try something a little different with this Chronophotography sequence that I took last week. A Long Crested Eagle had been perching beyond the trees in the old orchard on our plot in Hogsback and eventually settled on a branch just behind the trunk of a dead eucalyptus tree. In spite of... Continue Reading →
Birds Taking Flight: Some Chronophotography Narratives
Chronophotography - taking a sequence of images to portray motion - has been around since the mid-nineteenth century. More recently though Spanish photographer Xavi Bou has been making wonderful composite images of birds in flight: he calls them Ornithographies. My own experiments with this style started in early 2020 at the start of the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
Lockdown Sunbirds (and friends) in the Room of Dreams @NAF2022
There are more images of birds than anything else in my Room of Dreams 3D virtual exhibition. It's already open though Fringe Exhibitions @naf2022 don't start until June 23. Once the hard COVID lockdown started in March 2020 I was restricted to the house and garden and so I taught myself how to use the... Continue Reading →
The green wood hoopoes
There's an Illawarra flame tree just outside my studio window where the green wood hoopoes go fossicking for insects. With the noise they make it's easy to hear them, pick up the camera and try and get some pictures from the stoop. They don't keep still for more than a moment or two but they... Continue Reading →