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Step Outside Industries

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 404 309 308

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25.01.2022 One of those shots...everyone is involved. Sparks are flying. The ref had his work cut out to keep these two separated here. This picture now hangs on the wall as a canvas at the ref’s home, an honour for me!

25.01.2022 Back in the day, when work pickups were out in the middle of a field...by a helicopter! #StepOutsideMate

24.01.2022 The best place for making plans with a map! We consulted the land manager of this area for some good local knowledge before we headed off on our latest bowhunt. Found out there wasn’t much water lying around either so we topped up at the homestead!

18.01.2022 Can anyone guess whose nest this is? Hint, it’s in Cape York!

16.01.2022 Ruby Ross. Eyes that could melt the most ferocious Viking’s heart! She was adopted from Coen in Cape York when she just showed up in town from nowhere! I’ll tell her story over the next couple days while sharing photos from her photo shoot.

16.01.2022 To many, this might just be a dirty, dried up swamp, but to my brother @shanerossphoto and my bowhunting brothers this is a potential gem! Over the years Shane and I have walked thousand of kilometres in the bush, often silent, pursuing our first love: Traditional bowhunting. A sport teeming in morals and respect, this one is extremely close to our hearts and has shaped us immensely. Here Shane looks out over the waterhole, inspecting the shadows for potential quarry. It’s a hard sport requiring patience, hard work and determination, but incredibly rewarding, even when you don’t shoot anything. Have a crack...

07.01.2022 It was a Magpie Goose nest! These geese are a confusing mix of duck and goose, but more on that in the next post. They nest in the wet season when the wetlands fill up and the aquatic sedges and rushes flourish again. They fold the plants over and trample them to form a base, sometimes adding other plant material too. 6-9 eggs are laid in the nest, and incubation is often shared with other geese that have also laid in the same nest. How cool is that!

07.01.2022 Ol’ Mictis the Crusader Bug nymph had a night on the pollen! #crusaderbug #macrophotography #nikon #d810 #naturephotography

06.01.2022 Magpie Geese: these Aussie birds have such a cool story! They’re not quite duck and not quite goose. Their feet, unlike most other waterfowl, are only partially webbed. This is likely because they live on seasonal waterholes and often graze on land. They can be often seen digging up the roots of bulkuru to eat its tasty rhizome! Their scientific name ‘Anseranas semipalmata’ even has hints of something different - semipalmata, meaning half-palm/hand! Breeding often occurs wit...h one male and 2-3 females, all sharing incubation. It’s apparently not uncommon for the females to be siblings either! To feed the hatchlings whilst still in the nest (previous post), they will often bend grasses/rushes over next to the nest, so the chicks can eat the seed! Even their name describes them somewhat; Magpie Goose. ‘Pied’ in the bird world means black and white. Just think of that other famous bird...the magpie! See more

04.01.2022 Let’s get some colour again! This is the nymph of a Crusader Bug, Mictis sp, chilling on a sunflower at home. Insects don’t become adults immediately after hatching from their eggs, but instead go through 4-8 (sometimes more) stages called ‘instars’. This little guy doesn’t have wings yet but has colouration similar to an adult so he’d be a few instars in! It’s amazing what you can find when you look closely! Checkout tomorrow’s pic for this guy after a night on the pollen!

02.01.2022 So much green! This little grasshopper was hanging out on a sunflower at home and was working the pose. Not an adult yet, this fella is probably a second or third instar (it has moulted a couple times, slowly growing and becoming more adult with each moult). It does not yet have wings, which will likely appear in another moult or two. Grasshoppers are usually adults around their 4th-6th instar. To breed, males deposit one or two sperm capsules (smermatophores) in the female. Once the eggs have developed the female will deposit about 10-20 eggs in the soil, by digging the tip of her abdomen in. #StepOutsideMate #grasshopper #acrididae #macrophotography #macro_freaks @macro_freaks #green #nikon #d810 #garden