Nature and Photography

In the early 1970s seagulls made a dramatic intervention in human life via Jonathan Livingston Seagull, thanks to the fable book of one Richard Bach. A something parable about achieving self-perfection, Jonathan the seagull took the world by storm. Within a couple of years over a million copies of the book were sold as it found its place on bestselling lists. Jonathan also found his way into...

Without lifting a finger, without any contribution from us, we are gifted with an incredibly rich and diverse environment of water birds and other water creatures. Ours it is to simply enjoy, be awed and entertained by such a display of life. AND TO PROTECT IT All these photos are my own. Most were taken at the Rockhampton Botanical Gardens , including the sunset. Life is One Big Yawn Family...

I am a Gardener, I garden. Like, I think, I breathe. I don’t DO gardening. Gardening is not an occupation.  It is a way of being. Our first garden way back in the mid-nineties was a scraggy bit of lawn out the back of the house with a practice cricket pitch for the boys.  The cricket pitch got most of the attention. There was an attempt at some shrubs and flowers out front and some...

During Australia’s mad summer of ravaging bushfires, more than 11 million hectares were burnt out. That is, more than 110,000 square kilometres, or 30% of the total land size of the Philippine archipelago.  It is nigh impossible to imagine the destruction in terms of lives lost, houses and property destroyed and the catastrophic impact upon the environment.   It is estimated more...

I am fascinated by bugs and spiders. Little ones to be specific. Big ones don’t do much for me. It is their COMPLEXITY that draws my camera eye to them How does he hang on like that? What ARTIST has worked the colors in such manner? Smaller than the cherry tomato flower, how does it find its way around the universe? What CREATIVITY, the amazing SYMMETRY! Who was the tutor? So small, so...