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25.01.2022 A couple of month ago I travelled for a few days in the south of Chile. Part of the trip was about to forget the modern world. My brother Juan Pablo, a good friend, Rodrigo and I headed to a remote location east of the town Puelo (south of Puerto Montt). We reached Llanada Grande and kept heading East were the road ended, we arrived at a log cabin by the Correntoso River. We kept going for another day on a horse back, had a day fishing for trout... clean and faraway place, unpoluted, unaffected by microwaves, no internet, no mobile phone reception, just us, horses a dog and Beto, the friendly local. The rest of the trip was on my own... a deeply rewarding experience.

22.01.2022 Colacliff ocean pool, dusk

21.01.2022 En mi último viaje a Chile caminé un rato por las calles iluminadas por luz amarilla. Gocé de una rica comida con un rico jugo de frambuesas en este hermoso, bohemio, antiguo, moderno y sorpresivo barrio. Agrego 2 vistas de lo que hoy es un moderno y densamente habitado Santiago. During my last visit to Chile I went for a stroll on the yellow lit streets of 'Barrio Lastarria'. I enjoyed a tasty meal with a glass of raspberry juice in this bohemian, old, modern and full of surprises neighbourhood. I am also adding a couple of views of what today is a densely populated Santiago.

20.01.2022 At the end of February and beginning of March I went for a hike with four mates to one of the most wonderful, beautiful, dynamic and wild places. The South Coast Track on the southern tip of Tasmania. We walked just over 90 kilometres over 10 days in the South West National Park. We had sunny hours, rainy days, gale force winds, calm, friendship, lots of laughter, wonderful meals, walked on unspoiled beaches, rainforests, mountain ranges. We encountered rarely seen animals and birds. The track at times was hard, very hard. The mud, rain, tree roots and heavy packs made the going challenging at times but the rewards of being there, in the remote wilderness with my mates, are invaluable and never to be forgotten.

19.01.2022 This December, 50,000 world leaders from over 190 nations will meet in Paris for the COP21 Paris Climate Conference to (hopefully) pass resolutions to combat cl...imate change. The stakes couldn't be higher, but the outcome remains unclear. Send a message from #EarthToParis - tell the world's leaders to make bold commitments to combat climate change by joining this Thunderclap and adding your voice http://thndr.me/JzVprc [Video by GOOD + Nirvan] www.earthtoparis.org

18.01.2022 Castro, Chiloé, Chile

18.01.2022 Every year or two I travel where I am not a ‘foreigner’, Chile. I re-live the country I was born with a camera ‘seeing’, documenting and learning about its people, customs, architecture, landscapes and always absorbing the smells, light, colours, weather, food and everything I miss so much by living faraway from my roots. I photographed this place in the island of Chiloé in the late 70s using my first slr camera. Nearly 40 years later the light and mood hasn’t changed muchjust me...

14.01.2022 Another bunch of photos from a trip to Chile earlier this year. This time the photos are from the green South. I didn’t take many this time, this was only a short photographic trip because after many years I had a summer holiday with my entire family and friends, unforgettablejust love, laughter, conversations, wonderful foodcompletely relaxed, not much photography only a few days with a camera in Puerto Montt and Chiloé island.

13.01.2022 Yesterday in Sydney...the smoke choking our beautiful city and deleting the blues...surreal experience walking around the street with a warm tint

13.01.2022 Photos taken during a short trip to this beautiful area with my son Brendon last week.

11.01.2022 A wonderful trip with my son Nico. Landscapes, snakes, lizards, geckos, frogs even a turtle, water, rocks...a magnificent and wild landscape, sacred for some, just beautiful to me.... Kakadu is a wonderful place, the largest of the Australian national parks and declared World Heritage by UNESCO. It is a landscape full of significance for aboriginal people with a myriad of sacred places. The magnificent ‘rock art’ is prominent in some places and hidden and hard to find in othe...rs. Our trip took us to wonderful gorges and waterholes. We had to drive long distances on dirt roads full of corrugations to find these magical places but the efforts paid off and found what we were looking for. The highways in the park are excellent but really boring to drive on. Most of what you see is savannah woodland, in fact, hundreds of kilometres of it. At the end of the dry season, when we visited the park, the day temperatures reached 40+C degrees and didn’t get lower than 28C in the early morning with high humidity. I think next time I would like to visit the park in the wet season to compare the extreme changes in the environment. There was one disappointing reality Cane Toads have decimated waterways of reptiles. Where once Goannas and Monitors were plentiful nowadays are a rare sight. We recorded 4 water monitors in Kakadu and only 2 in Litchfield National Park. It a similar situation for the Fresh Water crocodiles, we were told that up to 70% of the park’s population has vanished. Our trip took us to Litchfield National Park too. Nico and I found it crowded but pretty. We only stayed two nights in spite paying for 4 nights camping. I think it was the wrong time of the year to visit the park. After the second night we decided to go back to Kakadu

08.01.2022 Dragonfly, Litchfield National Park, Australia

08.01.2022 A 6470 kilometres round trip from home to Central West Queensland looking for reptiles with my son Nico through a drought-stricken land was a bit disappointing. Land clearing is obviously having an effect on the abundance of wildlife even after considering the effect of the drought. The land is devastated, denuded, destroyed with some exception were the environment is protected in National Parks and well managed cattle stations. We found some critters and photographed some magnificent landscapes in some of Queensland’s arid interior. I hope to return one day after the desperately needed rains give a breath of fresh air to this harsh country and find the elusive Black Headed Python The week after we arrived home some rain fell in some areas we visited...finally!

06.01.2022 4 weeks ago I visited Tasmania, a place where I never get tired of. Its natural beauty, ever changing light, wonderful food and warm friends, make Tassie the place I feel at home. Here are some pictures I took while walking in Mount Field National and the Styx River valley where some magnificent forest of towering Swamp Gum (or Mountain Ash) still remain untouched. The tallest flowering trees in the world are still standing strong but.driving along the Styx river road, clear... fell forest is a common sight, depressingseeing what once was a forest of giants transformed into a smouldering patch of a denuded hillside makes you cry.fortunately some are protected in national parks and small reserves for us to enjoy. I went for a stroll up to the alpine area of Mount Field National Park. The weather was fine at the beginning of my walk, soon after snow showers changed the atmosphere in the mountains. The autumn colours were visible in the distance and in spite the cold and windy weather I kept going until I reach the Tarn Shelfmagical, touching, exquisitemagnificent. I could almost forget the burnt forest See more

05.01.2022 At the end of 2018 I went to Chile to celebrate my dad’s 90th birthday and spend time with my family. In January 2019 I took advantage of my time there and escaped to the wild. San Pedro de Atacama, a small town in northern Chile was my base from where I explored the landscapes of the ‘Altiplano’. I took a medium format digital camera, my first. The results blew me away the amazing mountain light and incredible sunsets I experienced at 4000 meters altitude were captured in a way that reminded me the times when I used large format film cameras. I spend time waiting for the right light while admiring the beauty of the majestic and treeless mountains and plains. It was hard to select the bunch of photos in this album, I have many more files but I hope what I am sharing here gives you an idea of how beautiful my country of birth is

02.01.2022 A few pics from a trip to Kanangra Boyd National Park. Last week I went with my son for a hike into the Kowmung River. The spot we camped in will be under water if the proposed raising of the Warragamba Wall goes ahead. More information here: https://www.wildrivers.org.au

01.01.2022 I travelled in the beautiful Tasmania for 10 days. I joined my son and his friends at Freycinet National Park, drove solo foe a few days, met my friend Peter Richards and went for a stroll and camped by a mountain lake with fly fishing rods. then solo again to Hobart where I met the wonderfully warm and friendly Lorraine and Tim, Lorraine prepared a delicious dinner and Tim shared a wealth of incredible knowledge of Tasmania's nature. Tim also took me to Mount Wellington where we walked and photographed the landscape. Thank you Lorraine and Tim! and a big thank you to my dearest friend Peter Richards for walking in the wilderness with me...

01.01.2022 Tracks on red dune, Queensland