What do you find in herb gardens?

June 21, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
Well, it's not always herbs:) This is our blue-tongue skink getting some outdoor sun and exercise this summer. The other great thing about the lizard, his his passion for the consumption of garden snails.
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Back to tigers? Waiting on the paper work

June 18, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
I'm hoping I can pull off an expedition to Kunming and Xishuangbanna (Yunnan) in Late July. Currently the paper work has all been submitted. This time round, part of the trip will be pertaining to poaching and smuggling of wildlife. In this case, the focus is back on tigers. Yunnan borders several SE Asian range states for tigers and has a history...
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The long long exposure

June 11, 2013
Despite camera manufacturers finding ways to keep increasing the ISO ratings of their cameras higher and higher, some of us still yearn for the low ISO shots. This means shooting at a very slow shutter speed. Having got myself a brand new 10-stop ND filter, I wanted to see what it could do. One requirement is that you have a very steady tripod....
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Raindrops

June 08, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
What to do in a wet weekend is often a puzzle. I have no enthusiasm for shopping so that rules out going to a mall. It's also harder to rouse kids to venture outside and into the bush. So, it was a bit of a solo mission with camera. While winter here means flowering plants are thin on the ground, the Kniphofia (red hot poker plant) is flowering.
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Going feral in the weekend

May 19, 2013  •  Leave a Comment
What Ive found of late, is that it is harder to disconnect from the rest of the world, simply because connecting is now so much easier. It's a world now of tablets, smartphones and computers everywhere. So of late, I've started disconnecting completely- at least one day a week. Sunday is now my day for going feral. I disappear into a local nature r...
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