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25.01.2022 More of the mystery of Gwalia, the settlement frozen in 1963 when the nearby mine closed and the town was abandoned.

24.01.2022 An accidental, but kinda funky image when I rotated the camera on the tripod (from vertical to horizontal) and didn't realise the shutter was still open. :-)

24.01.2022 Southern Bandicoot, North Lake, Perth.

23.01.2022 Just returned from a short trip to the Karara Rangelands between Camel Soak and Yalgoo in Western Australia. Among other things, it's the nearest place to Perth to see Major Mitchell (Pink) Cockatoos. But there's lot's more to see besides that. Here's a starting sample!

22.01.2022 A couple more of last night's sunset in Perth.

21.01.2022 A young galah in the garden and B-day at North Lake - Bronzewing pigeon and bandicoot.

21.01.2022 A short walk through the bush.

19.01.2022 It's been an awesome year for images, so check out some of the best of 2019! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMlxwh7UHK4

19.01.2022 Because who doesn't like a New Holland Honeyeater on bright bottle brush!

18.01.2022 How much can a koala bear? Paying homage to an iconic Aussie animal and environment that has suffered so much in recent months.

18.01.2022 2020 was a strange year, but not as dire as it could have been, and amidst the mayhem there is always beauty to be captured. So here is the Best of 2020. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/wOLgNwlGHek

18.01.2022 New Holland honeyeater

18.01.2022 Wintery moods of Rotto

18.01.2022 Ever been to Gwalia? It's the coolest ghost town I've ever visited because the houses, abandoned in 1963, have been left as living museums. Corrugated iron outer walls, hessian and pressed tin inner walls. Enamel pots and pans, kero lanterns and heaters, wood stoves and Coolgardie safes for food storage. This is a fantastic snapshot in time. Worth the visit if you are in the Goldfields. It's just outside the town of Leonora and it won't last forever as weather and termites will eventually see the old town crumble into ruins.

18.01.2022 Never forget the possibilities in your own backyard. Our Irongum is flowering at the moment, which means the New Holland Honeyeaters are loving the nectar.

18.01.2022 Fremantle Sailing Club last evening.

17.01.2022 One of the upsides of CV19 is that it is forcing people to travel within their own States instead of overseas. People are amazed at what's on their doorsteps because they've never ventured out before now. Here's to appreciating how great our own country is!

17.01.2022 A couple of quickies of tonight's Perth sunset.

17.01.2022 There's always new images going into the galleries and the easiest way to see them is to check out the What's New gallery: https://awesomeimages.smugmug.com/Galleries/Whats-new/

17.01.2022 While on animal studies, I was reading recently how native dingoes may soon be considered a threatened species because interbreeding with wild dogs may eventually extinguish the pure bred. Here's some examples of dingoes I have photographed over the years that illustrates that point, showing the pure breds and the cross-breds.

17.01.2022 A wet day, but the macro lens found some things to play with.

16.01.2022 What I was ACTUALLY doing at the time of the funky photo below was getting some shots of the first light hitting the Boranup karri forest. This is re-growth karri post logging in the early part of the last century. Logging finished in the area in 1913 and it has taken over 100 years for these mighty trees to reach what is about half their full height.

15.01.2022 Sorry, been a bit busy over the festive season, but had some time recently to edit some more of the shots I took at Cradle Mountain a few months ago. Enjoy!

15.01.2022 I'm sometimes described by others as a "bird photographer", but that's a misnomer, I'm a wildlife photographer. It's just that the mobility of birds allows them to be far more visible than other animals, and thus far more likely to be photographed. And they tend to stay still (sometimes only briefly), which again allows them to be photographed. These were taken at the weekend while walking the dog, so they are "happenstance" photos, if you like. I also photographed a young ...bandicoot, but it was in dense scrub, hard to see and didn't stay still, so the photos weren't worth processing. Which left me with birds ... as it often does.

14.01.2022 Walking the dog in the Aussie bush brings more rewards than just a wagging dog tail.

13.01.2022 While at Thundelarra Station a wedgetail eagle flew overhead, (unfortunately too fast for me to readjust my camera settings, so a bit noisy),

12.01.2022 These guys have to be among the most photogenic animals around! Rotto quokkas.

12.01.2022 Honeyeaters in the garden during a wet week in Perth.

11.01.2022 Into the sunset ... one of the last cruise liners likely to depart Fremantle for a long time sailed today, marking the sunset on the cruise industry.

10.01.2022 What strange forces caused this tree to twist so much as it grew? Bulmogarra Gorge, Karara Rangelands.

10.01.2022 Red-capped parrot in an ironbark. Can't get more West Aussie than that!!

09.01.2022 Given we're in for a story night in Perth tonight, why not enjoy some storm pix?

09.01.2022 Moonrise over Perth's Elizabeth Quay last night.

09.01.2022 So, isolated with pandemic measures, I decided that instead of sitting on my arse on a couch I would sit on my arse in the bush for four evenings and observe/photograph/video bandicoots (quenda), a native marsupial of Australia. https://youtu.be/i5uGGKmvadc It does go on for a bit, but a single wine would easily do it ... unless you drink like me!! :-)

08.01.2022 Good morning, Perth!

07.01.2022 As always, the stars in the bush on my Karara Rangelands trip were amazing, although there was a bit of light spill from nearby gold mines.

07.01.2022 Dawn breaks over Fremantle Sailing Club harbour this morning.

06.01.2022 Female Red-tailed forest cockatoo, North Lake.

03.01.2022 Always great to see the Carnaby cockatoos grazing on banksias at North Lake.

02.01.2022 More shots from Gwalia, including Hoover House, the mine manager's original residence, named after Herbert Hoover, one of the first mine managers at Gwalia. Hoover was mine manager in other towns, such as Big Bell near Cue. Hoover, a mining engineer, later went on to become the 31st President of the US.

01.01.2022 I often get asked (especially on site tours of Barrow Island) the difference between kangaroos, wallaroos and wallabies. OK, so here we go. All are from the macropods (meaning big feet) species but the body size and the distance between the knees and the ankles vary.... Technically only the largest six sub-species of the macropods are kangaroos, although wallabies and especially wallaroos sometimes get referred to a "kangaroos". The smallest of the three kangaroo-like sub-species are the wallbies, in both size and the distance between the knee and ankle. They generally live in rocky territory and this shorter leg size gives them a lower centre of gravity for better balance. The smaller body size also makes them more agile on rough ground and able to squeeze between rocks and into small gaps. The next size up is the wallaroo. Euros (predominant on Barrow Island) are a type of walleroo. Walleroos have a bigger body size, but also a longer distance between the ankle and knee than a wallaby. This is because they can range in both rocky country, but also savannas. On the flatter country (savannas) the longer leg gives them a longer bound. The biggest of the three kangaroo-like species are the kangaroos themselves. They have the longest distance between the knee and ankle to give them longer bounding distances and more speed (but a higher centre of gravity) because they live on the savannas. The biggest of the kangaroos (the western reds) can grow up to three metres. There are lots of sub-species of macropods, including burrowing macropods (Burrowing Bettongs or Boodies), quokkas and tree kangaroos (which technically aren't a kangaroos at all ... but then koalas aren't "bears", either!). Colloquially it is OK to call wallaroos "kangaroos", but technically they are not. Wallabies really should just be called wallabies, because it is easier to tell the difference between a wallaby than a kangaroo than it is with a wallaroo. All macropods are also marsupials, meaning they are a mammal that gives birth to live babies, but raise them initially in a pouch. Here's some shots showing the differences. Enjoy!

01.01.2022 We often go on holidays and rave about the sunsets we see. Yet we usually don't see the sunsets where we live. And if you live in Perth, you get more great sunsets than almost any of your holiday destinations. Now you have a great excuse for a pre-dinner beer in the back garden.