About Me

Photography, in particular nature photography has been a passion of mine for most of my life.

Only thing was, I never had the time (or the money) to pursue it.

After retiring in 2013, the first of those two problems has been solved (still working on the second).

My partner Barbara and I have been travelling the country in our caravan, chasing mainly new birds, we have been lucky enough to spend plenty of time wandering in the bush and everywhere we can, taking photos of birds, bugs and anything else that flies, crawls, hops or slithers around the place.

This page is a migration from my old Pixelpost site and is at this point in time (March 2020) a work in progress. I have taken 10 years to get to this point and it will probably take me another 10 to get all the information over from my old site.

My main focus when starting this site was to photograph birds, that interest has bled out into all living critters.

Please excuse my ID's, they are incomplete and in many cases just plain wrong.

I am by no means an expert! 

Feel free to contact me and correct my ID's if you feel the need. 

I'm still thinking about whether I'll sell photos or make them available for non-profits for free.

At the moment photos are not downloadable from this site but by all means contact me and I'll make them available to you. All I ask in return at this stage is recognition.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following web sites and FaceBook pages have been invaluable in helping me identify my creatures.

FACEBOOK: Birdlife Mackay Facebook Page; Birds of Oz; Bird Photography Australia; Australian Butterflies and Moths; Amateur Entomology Australia; Australian Dragonflies and Damselflies; Australian Marsupials, Reptiles, Amphibians,Invertebrates and Plants; Australian Amateur @ Professional Entomology; Bees in the Burbs; Frogs of Australia. 

www.lifeunseen.com for a wonderful resource of Spiders and Insects by Nick Monaghan.

www.brisbaneinsects.com by Peter Chew and family, has been an invaluable resource in helping identify some of my creatures.

Atlas of Living Australia  and iNaturalistAU. Which are a fantastic resource and display many of my images.

David Kleinert Photography for some truly spectacular wildlife photography.

www.birdsinbackyards.net a fantastic resource for bird identification.

www.findaspider.org.au by Dr Ron Atkinson of the University of Southern Queensland is also an excellent guide to Australian Spiders.

Spiders of Australia by Ed Nieuwenhuys has also been a great help identifying spiders.

Butterflies and Moths of Australia by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley.