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Steven Nowakowski Panoscapes
Locality: Kuranda, Queensland
Phone: +61 402 810 411
Address: PO Box 560 4881 Kuranda, QLD, Australia
Website: http://www.stevennowakowski.com
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25.01.2022 How's this for a tree buttress! My friend Paul Curtis inspects the size of a Mossman Quandong (Peripentadenia) tree.
24.01.2022 Whilst doing work for Rainforest 4 in the Daintree recently (Kuku Yalanji country) I was able to take this photograph of a moody sunrise over Thornton and Noah Beaches. A place where 'rainforest meets the sea'.
22.01.2022 2021 CALENDAR RANGE FREE SHIPPING Australia wide My 2021 calendar range is now available for purchase on-line.... Order now and receive FREE SHIPPING Australia wide! https://www.stevennowakowski.com/calendars
22.01.2022 Happy World Cassowary Day.. Instead of posting images of the bird I'll post pictures of its poo! The poo is of great interest to me. It shows what the bird eats and where its been. Its a great disperser of seeds. Around home I take great delight in watching the seeds in poo propagate and grow into trees.... Happy Cassowary 'poo' day!
22.01.2022 Magnificent Hoop Pines, which only grow in areas that are absent of fire. I love this grove of 'Hoopies' near McLeod Falls within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area.
21.01.2022 I've been working the last few weeks with Rainforest 4 photographing their next critical rainforest block for buyback and conservation in the Daintree lowland rainforest. It is so good to work on such a positive project with a real conservation outcome. For more information on how you can donate and help buy this block back for conservation go here: https://www.rainforest4.org/land_purchase_to_save_the_daint
21.01.2022 Esteemed naturalist, conservationist and activist Rupert Russell standing beneath a forest elder; a Mossman Quandong (Peripentadenia) tree. Thank You Rupert for years of natural history observation and documentation and decades of activism to protect what we have left today.
18.01.2022 We are very privileged to again publish the beautiful Art of Melanie Hava in our new 2021 Melanie Hava’s (Mamu artist) calendar. It is always a pleasure to work with Melanie and we admire her beautiful work greatly. Thank You Melanie. FREE SHIPPING within Australia.... Check it out here: https://www.stevennowakowski.com//2021-reflections-rainfor
17.01.2022 Nearly 15 years ago to the day I was fortunate to visit Timor Leste to photographically document aspects of how the Millennium Development Goals were being achieved in this poorest of countries. It was a trip that fundamentally changed my life. No longer were trivial issues important. Our fellow humans around the world were suffering from inequitable access to basic necessities such as access to clean fresh water, safe maternal health and combatting common diseases such as ma...laria. Timor Leste was a juxtaposition of poverty and happiness. The Timorese are the most beautiful and wonderful people who have endured hardship over decades yet they are so incredibly optimistic. Whilst there I accompanied an organisation called Bia-Hula who with international help were developing new safe sources of water and sanitation for communities throughout Timor Leste. I look forward to returning there again one day. It is a very special country with the most wonderful people who I will always love. Here are some images that show how precious clean water is; one of the most precious resources of all.
17.01.2022 A PLACE CALLED PARADISE - an article I wrote for the Kuranda Paper - first published in Kuranda Paper Issue 324 (September 2020) The history of tourism in Kuranda is rich and long. In fact, Kuranda was one of the first towns in North Queensland to tap into the fledgling nature-based tourism phenomena. It was the foresight of Dan Duggan who first made the connection between outstanding natural beauty and the desire for people to experience it back in 1920....Continue reading
17.01.2022 Body is still recovering but mind is still daydreaming of those unsurveyed heights and unfathomable views. Here are a couple of new images. This is a favourite quote of mine by my hero Henry David Thoreau; We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
17.01.2022 The biggest Kauri tree I've ever seen! I got my mate Kerry Trapnell to pose next to it to show scale. Not the best light but still effective. What a monster! Finding big trees in the wet tropics always blows me away...
17.01.2022 Looking forward to getting out into the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area again soon. All the creeks and rivers have been charged by recent rain so stay tuned for some new images. This is a shot from last year from deep within the forests. Please excuse all the water droplets on the lens. It was a very wet spot and impossible to keep gear dry. #wettropics #waterfall #wilderness #wildernessphotography
16.01.2022 A very old large format slide image of Babinda Boulders from about 22 years ago. The best thing is that it hasn't changed one bit.
15.01.2022 Exploring our backyard with the kids and checked out Robb's Monument on the Kuranda Scenic Rail. Robb's Monument in Djabugay means Mayula = ‘cleaver-men’, ‘medicine men’, ‘sorcerer’. The storywater for this refers to a man and a woman breaching etiquette by having an illegal relationship. They were both the Gurrabana (Wet Season) moiety. The Gurra-Gurra (ancestors) punished them by turning them to stone. The rock on the right was taller, but apparently was damaged during th...e construction of the Cairns-Kuranda Railway. The Gadja (Europeans) ignored Bana (rainforest Aboriginal people) heritage and named it in honour of John Robb, the railway contractor for the second section. ps walk was done outside operating hours of the Kuranda Scenic Rail operating times.
15.01.2022 The amazing Daintree rainforests of North Queensland. I took this shot of Cooper Creek a few weeks ago in beautiful morning light. Its such a special yet fragile place. There is a little debate going on the moment about Douglas Shire Council considering building a bridge over the Daintree River so I dug up an old slide photo from 20 years ago which seems relevant again. History always seems to repeat regardless of how smart we think we are. Primates are supposed to learn from the past?
14.01.2022 I've collaborated this year with Stan Breeden to produce a 2021 Wildlife Wall Calendar. It's always fun to work with Stan who is just about to publish his life's work in his upcoming memoir. Stan is 82 years of age and an inspiring photographer and naturalist. FREE SHIPPING is now included on all calendar and diary orders. Check it out here:-... https://www.stevennowakowski.com//2021-wildlife-of-austral See more
13.01.2022 Our local cassowary Merlin making an appearance for xmas. He appeared to have xmas cheer and a bounce in his step. Maybe he saw Santa and now dreams of being a reindeer? #wettropics #kurandavillage #cassowary
09.01.2022 There's nothing like encountering a dinosaur cassowary in the wet tropical rainforests of North Queensland. This shot was taken when a few mates and I went cassowary shooting up the road from where I live. We had such a great time just sitting silent, observing and shooting away. Great memories with Gerhard Hillmann, Steve Parish, Martin Willis, Paul Curtis and Dean Holland from Take Better Photos. I'm posting this image because I had another great encounter this morning with... another cassowary and its chick. I was unable to get any good photos but hope to return soon and spend more quality time waiting and waiting and waiting for the cassowary to show up and then to capture that 'right moment'. #kurandavillage #cassowary #wettropics #savetherainforest
06.01.2022 Clohesy River Fig Tree. A relatively unknown gem just near Kuranda. If you go there check out the red cedar trees that the loggers left behind as seed stock trees.
05.01.2022 An old'ish photo of a place dear to my heart - The Hinchinbrook Passage. The Passage consists of a maze of intertwining mangrove estuaries. It contains an intact ecosystem ranging from sea level to the highest peaks of Hinchinbrook Island at 1,121m high. Just over 20 years ago commercial fisherman could string nets across a whole estuary and catch and kill every living organism. Thankfully those days are over and many endangered marine species are now safe within their Passa...ge home. I feel the Hinchinbrook Passage has never received the respect it deserves. There has been decades of relentless pressure to push aqua farms further into its heart with housing estates and marinas always lurking in concept plans within Council vaults waiting for stars to align.
03.01.2022 Commonly known as flooded gums or rose gums (Eucalyptus grandis), this pair is probably some of the the biggest around. Photographed here within the high altitude ecotone forest forming the transition between rainforest and wet sclerophyll. Thanks James for posing to help add scale.
02.01.2022 Welcome to 2021 chicky. :) New Years day and I finally got a decent photo of Merlin's new chicky. #kurandavillage... #cassowary #wettropics #savetherainforest See more
