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25.01.2022 A visual summary of the method used to create the composite image "Congested airspace".

25.01.2022 The finished product and the process to get there. CLICK VIDEO LINK to see the process https://fb.watch/1Zj1eUJAsT/

25.01.2022 "Peter Pan the Lighthouse Man" Meet Mark Sheriff OAM, a.k.a. Peter Pan the Lighthouse Man (because he never grew up). Since 1990 he's been performing maintenance work on our little lighthouse at Tacking Point, plus many other lighthouses around Australia. He was the last lighthouse keeper at Sugarloaf Point (Seal Rocks). See the beautiful remanufactured Australian cedar door. Some of the timber came from a door at South Solitary Island lighthouse near Coffs Harbour. It's abou...t 2 inches thick. Mark installed the new door recently. He's a collector of maritime history, memorabilia and artefacts. The new door has an antique bronze nameplate engraved with "Tacking Point Light". There's also an old brass 'Commonwealth of Australia NOTICE' warning of a fine not exceeding 100 pounds for anyone who interferes with or damages the lighthouse. The final 'Mark touch' on the door is an original brass ventilator near floor level See the lifebuoy that Mark has painstakingly painted and sign-written. It contains the Latin phrase "olim periculum nunc salus", meaning "once perilous, now safe". The lifebuoy is a social experiment, like much of Mark's work at Tacking Point. When Mark started his work in 1990, Tacking Point lighthouse was a sorry sight, the victim of neglect and vandalism. Mark's work in restoring our "beautiful little lighthouse" (his words) challenges the community to love it as he does and respect it. The new door and lifebuoy will undoubtedly serve as an authentic backdrop for countless selfies at Port Macquarie's signature tourist landmark. 1/2000 | f4.5 | 50mm | ISO 400 | handheld | 30 July 2020

24.01.2022 I haven't been out photographing birds for a while. Thank goodness for my photo library and my computer. Here's a project that I've had on the boil for some months. Well...'simmering' is a more accurate word. Covid-19 isolation has helped me to finish it. Flat rate postage within Australia $12.50

24.01.2022 "Copeton cold" Dylan fishing at Copeton. Who can deduce what the scribbles in the foreground are? And what the weather conditions were, besides cold! Single exposure. No Photoshop.... 4sec | f1.2 | 50mm | ISo 400 | handheld | 27 June 2020

24.01.2022 For more than half a year, Wowfactorpix and Cao Roads Travel have been developing an itinerary and program for a travel photography tour with a difference. An opportunity exists for 16 committed photographers to join the inaugural tour for a special introductory price. This video, Part 1, introduces Mr Cao Van Hiep (known as Leo) and Cao Roads Travel, the tour operator. Part 2, introducing Rob Smith (photo guide & tutor), will be published on 16 February.

24.01.2022 "Winter beach" Rule #1 of child photography: Get down to their level. Low tide at Lighthouse Beach. Levi Smith 27 months.... 1/8000th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 100 | handheld | 1 August 2020

23.01.2022 "Taking sides" Sharing the bounty of the Bottlebrush Grass Tree in Lake Innes Nature Reserve. RAW file adjusted and cropped with Lightroom; frame created with Photoshop.... 1/125th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 9 November 2020

22.01.2022 "Catalogue boy" Low, late afternoon sun behind me made for catchlights. 1/3000th | f2.8 | 300mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 2 August 2020

21.01.2022 "2 years and 10 days" A Leesa expression. 1/350th | f1.8 | 50mm | ISO 800 | handheld | 15 May 2020

21.01.2022 "Mission for Levi" A late afternoon mission to Lighthouse Beach put Ruby and Levi in the shadow of the dune. It was a good scenario for rim-lighting and I went ahead to shoot back with a telephoto lens. One for the family history. Levi at 27 months. Ruby at 59.... 1/2000th | f2.8 | 300mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 2 August 2020

21.01.2022 "Morning visit" Levi's new house also has a guest room window that provides a big soft light effect in the morning. What a delight to have this little man waddle down the hallway to say good morning. Two copies of the same photo, processed in Lightroom, blended in Photoshop: colour (the eyes); B&W (the rest).... 1/250th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 800 | handheld & burst mode + tracking focus | uncropped | 16 May 2020

20.01.2022 "That's a hand!" Paraphrasing Crocodile Dundee. "That's not a hand.....that's a hand!". The image is four years old but has not been published before. I'm feeding the maggies at the lighthouse again this year. This 2016 image exploits the extreme perspective distortion afforded by a fisheye lens.... 1/750th | f9.5 | 16mm fisheye | ISO 400 | handheld | 16 September 20016

20.01.2022 "Peter PPE Pan" Peter Pan the Lighthouse Man is back at Tacking Point maintaining our lighthouse. His PPE protects him from paint and dust and is also appropriate in these Covid times. With some imagination, I can picture him half a world away on a mission in Afghanistan.... 1/6000th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 13 August 2020

19.01.2022 "Mr Barnet's designs" The lighthouse maintenance man, Mark Sheriff OAM, is back at Tacking Point Lighthouse this week. When he's 'in residence', Mark flies the NSW State flag (1876) from the tower. That's a typical Mark touch. ... Why? Because the flag was designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet, the man who designed Tacking Point Lighthouse, and Captain Francis Hickson (Royal Navy). I asked Mark for permission to ascend the spiral staircase to the tower to make some photographs of the light with a fisheye lens. My hand needed to be in the frame; my index finger is covering the sensor that controls the light. When ambient light falls to a certain level, the light starts flashing. A finger placed over the sensor can simulate the arrival of darkness. This image is an in-camera composite of eight exposures with a slight sensor-shift between each one that delivers a 50 megapixel RAW image. The multiple exposures are betrayed by the stuttery image of the flapping flag and the multiplied specular highlights of the light. 8 X 125th |f5.6 | 16mm full frame fisheye | ISO 64 | 4 August 2020

19.01.2022 "Pink & grey on grey" In a black locust tree beside Dumaresq Creek in Armidale, on a grey morning. 1/2000th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 1600 | monopod | 7 February 2020

19.01.2022 "Watcher" A wary Great Egret (Ardea alba) lifted from its background by a high-key treatment in Lightroom. BlueHills Wetlands, Glenmore Park NSW.... 1/1500th | f5.6 | 840mm | monopod | ISO 400 | 18 May 2020

18.01.2022 "Twist of lemon" This Eastern Yellow Robin came to check me out. Why? For one thing, the species is inquisitive and will come close for a look if you sit quietly in their domain. Secondly, it turns out that I was in proximity to its newly fledged young that were hiding in the undergrowth.... Where the bird landed was fortuitousa moody olive-toned background to complement the robin's livery that, when rendered out-of-focus by my telephoto lens, became the perfect portraitist's backdrop. 1/125th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 9 November 2020

18.01.2022 "Detonation" Just as Levi dropped the piece of bread, the male Australian Wood Duck lost its nerve and crashed under. I think it was nervous about being sandwiched between the photographer on the shore and the people on the boardwalk. At Blue Hills Wetlands, Glenmore Park.... 1/1000th | f2.8 I 50mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 14 May 2020

18.01.2022 "Chortle & Chic" Colours of the Australian bush; visual and audible. An alternative title is 'Black & white and pink & grey".... A grey morning along Dumaresq Creek, Armidale. 1/1000th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 1600 | monopod | 7 February 2020

17.01.2022 "Lightfingers" The yellow panels in a Rainbow Lorikeet's primaries and secondaries are like beacons when backlit. Compare the thumbnail to the finished (processed) image. The thumbnail illustrates my practice of "exposing to the right of the histogram" to ensure that the digital sensor gathers as much data as possible from the scene. ... While the RAW file looks overexposed, it has no clipped highlights. This means that there is ample latitude for reducing the 'exposure' in post-processing and maintaining optimum image quality with virtually no digital noise in the shadows. 1/2000th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 8 November 2020

17.01.2022 "Shopping run" An adult flies on another sortie to gather food for the young one. Composite image.... Near Yina Nature Reserve, Armidale. 1/3000th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 1600 | monopod | 1 November 2020

16.01.2022 How good would this look with a mighty East Coast Low swell marching in? Twenty-one images shot from a tripod at one-second intervals and composited into an animated GIF in Photoshop. Upon export from Photoshop, the file was set to 'loop forever'. 1/90th | f5.6 | 16mm fisheye | ISo 64 | tripod | 4 August 2020

16.01.2022 "home alone" Light is everything! More specifically, what the light is doing is everything in photography. This little one was curious, checking me out as I sat near the base of a big eucalypt waiting for Scarlet Honeyeaters. I heard it rustling in the bracken fern and then it showed itself. ... I couldn't shift my position for fear of scaring it off, so I shot through some intervening twigs. You can see them in the diagonals crossing the bird's body. I wasn't certain about its identitiy until its parents turned up with insect morsels. I love how the out-of-focus Xanthorrhoea flower spike resembles a portraitist's studio soft box. It's a recently fledged Eopsaltria australis, behaving very much like its kind. Curious. 1/125th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 400 | monopod | 12 November 2020

15.01.2022 "Jewel's Song" A composite image. I added the bee from another frame of the same scene photographed before the bird arrived.. In 1964, Jewel Aken was the first person to record the song that inspired the title of this image, but it was made more famous by Dean Martin.... I have removed the plurals from the lyric. "Let me tell you 'bout a bird and a bee and a flower and a tree, and a thing called love." I have been enjoying shooting birds in backlit situations this week at Lake Innes Nature Reserve. 1/90th | f5.6 | 840mm | monopod | ISO 200 | 12 November 2020

15.01.2022 ENTHUSIASM "The first thing to look for in determining your interests is enthusiasm. I cannot overemphasize the importance of enthusiasm. I once heard that three human ingredients will combine to produce success in any field of endeavour: enthusiasm, talent, and hard work, and that a person can be successful with only two of those attributes as long as one of the two is enthusiasm! ... I agree. Photographically, for me, enthusiasm manifests itself as an immediate emotional response to a scene. Essentially, if the scene excites me visually, I will photograph it (or at least, I will take a hard second look to see if it is worth photographing). It is purely subjective. This positive emotional response is extremely important to me. Without it, I have no spontaneity and my photographs are laboured efforts. With it, photography becomes pure joy." BRUCE BARNBAUM Roger that!

14.01.2022 "Verticolour" The Australian bushland's answer to Technicolor and Panacolor. I enjoy the extremely out-of-focus contributions of foreground Xanthorrhoea flower-spikes.... 1/12000th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 8 November 2020

14.01.2022 "The Wattlebird" The wattlebird withdrew its brush-tipped tongue from a banksia flower and flew. ==========...Continue reading

12.01.2022 "Paper on wood" Ben Applies sandpaper to finish a laminated bowl made from reclaimed kauri pine. 1/90th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 800 | handheld | 21 August 2020

11.01.2022 Introducing Rob Smith, the photo guide and mentor for participants in the inaugural Creative Photography & Heritage Tour of Vietnam with Cao Roads Travel.

10.01.2022 "Inflow" Recent weather signals a possible end to the worst drought in living memory in the district where I grew up. General rain and intense cloudbursts over the upper catchment of the Gwydir River have filled farm dams, gullies, and creeks and the overflow has swollen the river to the extent that Lake Copeton is rising once again. During my two fishing sessions 33 hours apart, the level of the lake has risen about 30 centimetres. The fish weren't feeding from the surface a...s I had hoped, although the phenomenon of water rising over virtually new ground is a well-known fish trigger. Perhaps things will improve in the coming weeks. But I didn't come home empty-handedI had my camera with me. Water is life, but for this smartweed plant (Persicaria sp.) and the swathes of lush new growth that now carpet the slopes around the lakelife will be short as the rising water consumes it. The organic matter in the water will generate massive blooms of zooplankton and an explosion in the populations of aquatic invertebrates that will lead up the food chain to a bonanza for fish and birds...providing that the blue-green algae evident now does not gain a stranglehold. Hopefully, milder weather leading into autumn will hold it at bay. The image was captured with the camera held as close as possible to the surface of the water, using a fast, normal lens (normal in the sense that its field of view approximates the field of view of human binocular vision). While processing the image in Lightroom, I discovered that the smartweed carried a passenger (inset). 1/1000th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 13 February 2020

09.01.2022 "Daubing the vortex" Mark Sheriff OAM working at Tacking Point lighthouse. One of today's tasks was to continue painting the inside of the tower that houses the spiral staircase to the beacon. ... The flow of the curves in the tower is accentuated by the extreme perspective and coverage of the fisheye lens, making the tower look more capacious than it really is. I like how the curve of Mark's body follows the stair-rail and the upward vortex toward the daylight. The small unpainted rectangle on the wall below the stair treads is a 'Mark touch'. He likes to leave small unpainted patches to show the 'before' condition of the masonry and woodwork. 1/15th | f3.5 | 16mm fisheye | ISO 800 | handheld | 14 August 2020

09.01.2022 "Days off PPE" Ben's day job is being a clinical nurse specialist in operating theatres at the base hospital. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) goes with the territory. On his days off, he spends a lot of time in the workshop under his parents' house (he lives down the road but hasn't a workspace there). This calls for a different set of PPE. ... A portrait of the modern-day woodworker replete with a battery-powered router, dust extraction system, facemask, protective eyewear and earmuffs that double as an aural entertainment system streaming music via Spotify. If someone calls, the music stops. What's he making? A batch of Aussie hardwood chopping boards ordered by friends and colleagues. 1/90th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 800 | handheld | 17 August 2020

09.01.2022 Here's a RAW file of a Scaly-breasted Lorikeet as an example of simple ways to make adjustments and enhance an image in Adobe Lightroom.

08.01.2022 "Taking the bait" Yesterday when we took little mate to the beach, I took only my mobile phone and got a low viewpoint video clip of him saying 'No photo!'. I liked the way that the late afternoon light raked across the beach and brought out the primary colours of his plastic tip truck and its reflection on the wet sand. The kid was fairly cute as well.... It sparked an idearepeat the shoot again the next day but, next time, armed with a proper camera and a wide-angle lens. All was going according to plan this afternoonthe next day. We left Sittee at home preparing the evening meal, drinking wine, and watching her afternoon TV serial. I thought, 'It would be so much easier with Ruby's help', but she was on a more important mission. We arrived at the beach a little later than I had planned due to Master Levi having a nap after our lunchtime fishing session at Laurieton. Never mind, the light was still OK at 16:15 but Norfolk Island pine shadows would soon creep across the sand. No time for mucking around. We hadn't been on the wet sand more than a few seconds when I'd placed the plastic truck in position, and began to take my camera out and consider the composition,. Then Master Levi decided that he didn't want to stay; he wanted Sittee. A cool breeze wasn't helping. Grrrr! What a dilemmatry to cajole Number 1 grandson or abandon mission? I tried the former and the resultant scowls from the Master told me that I was failing. I had to think quickly. He was starting to lose it; he's midway through the Terrible Two phase. My photographer's brain said, "You need a Plan B." The cogs turned. I placed the bucket in the background, took out two plastic spades, dug them into the sand near the bucket, and resumed my intended position to photograph toward them with the plastic truck in the foreground. "OK, Levi, let's go home to Sittee. You put the toys in the bucket for me and we'll go", I said as I waved him towards the spades. He stopped whingeing and played his part. He walked over to the spades, picked them up and dropped them into the bucket, then turned and came for the truck. Grumpa was ready. 1/250th | f8 | 14mm | ISO 200 | handheld and composed via an articulating live-view LCD | 4 September 2020

08.01.2022 "Back from the shops" An adult Eastern Yellow Robin returns with food to the place where its recently fledged youngster is hiding. It pauses on a low branch before lobbing into bracken fern near the base of a large eucalypt tree. The semi-backlit background has been rendered as an abstract by the limited depth of field of the telephoto lens. ... 1/180th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 400 | monopod | 12 November 2020 174

08.01.2022 "This little Black Duck" Pacific Black duck at BlueHills Wetlands, Glenmore Park NSW. Photographed with camera suspended from an inverted monopod and resting on my shoe near water's edge. Composed with articulating live view. 1/1500th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 18 May 2020

07.01.2022 My mentor, Emeritus Professor Des Crawley, said that "novelty is not creativity" and it stuck with me. So did the words of David DuChemin about 'low hanging fruit'. This is a video that I created to support a presentation I made at the annual convention of the Australian Photographic Society in 2011.

07.01.2022 "Under the cupola" A female Scarlet Honeyeater pauses atop a bottlebrush grass-tree flower-spike. The eucalypt canopy behind her has been 'abstractified' by the phenomenon of depth-of-field. I like. My routine with images like this is to: (a) focus on the bird using the spot-focus point in the middle of the viewfinder; (b) hold that focus by keeping the shutter partially depressed; (c) move the camera/frame around with the bird in different positions (e.g. left, right, bottom... right etc.) and fully depress the shutter to capture the image when the composition seems to 'fall into place' for my taste. I find this is a better method than to shoot with the bird in the centre of the frame and then try to rescue a decent composition by cropping in post-processing. 1/350th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 400 | monopod | 15 November 2020

06.01.2022 "Desert camp" Twelve years ago, we were camped on the Queensland side of the Dog Fence at Cameron Corner under a full moon. I made this photograph with the lens pointed SE into NSW. It ran for 15 minutes on my 5 megapixel DSLR. The streaks of white tracking the Dog Fence were made by me walking along and holding two flashing headlamps. With Dylan Smith and Col.... Blue night sky, red desert earth, sleeping under the autumn stars. Fine memories. 900s | f8 | 14mm | ISO 100 | tripod | 21 April 2008

06.01.2022 "PAGES 26 - 27" Some feedback about my latest book made my day today. It came from a dear friend who received the copy she purchased and gave me her thoughts about the work. Di has given me her permission to share those thoughts. "Rob received your book and very pleased to see some of your old work as well as new material. The textures are amazing, enticing you to touch the pages expecting to feel the different effects you have created.... I can see many hours spent waiting for birds in bushes and its paid off..brilliant images not to mention your post skills. My favourite pages......26 and 27. When I first saw your Copeton Dam light painting years ago I was gobsmacked and it set off a whole chain of events for myself and another photography friend. We spent hours chasing bridges, rivers and streams till early hours with torches. Absolutely freezing in Bendemeer one night light painting the bridge over the McDonald river, and Gostwyk church, camping out in the frost. This went on for 12 months and, unfortunately, camera club judges just didnt get it so images never got anywhere but we loved them and we had so much fun with camera settings and torches. So your book will enlighten, inspire and stimulate the passion again, to get out there and do it. Already planning to camp on the Macquarie Marshes when we get a spare few days ...reed warblers first on the list...Influence from your work once again. I always come up with something completely different to expected but the fun is in the surprise. Post-production still sadly lacking. Many thanks once again .. Di" Thank you so much, Di. It's humbling to know that my work is appreciated like that.

06.01.2022 "Stiletto" Immature Eastern Spinebill showing its adaptations and agility. I saw this bird in the same place on several mornings in Lake Innes Nature Reserve. Soft backlighting makes this photograph work better than frontal. ... 1/250th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 13 November 2020

05.01.2022 MORE FEEDBACK This week I received some more gratifying feedback from a friend who purchased a copy of my self-published book 'Avian Encounters'. I also had an opportunity to show the book to friends while on a trip to Inverell. Consequently, I will be ordering more copies when the opportunity arises to take advantage of a special price from the photobook printing company. Today's spread is page 78-79 chosen because I made these images on a trip to a recovering fireground wit...h my friend, Barbara Sheppard, in 2017. We photographed Eastern Yellow Robins (Eopsaltria australis) in the ironbark forest in light rain, necessitating the use of umbrellas to shield our cameras. Barbara wrote... "Hi Rob, Your book is a wonderful collection of your feathered friends photography and your Haiku poems. I love it and will return to it often. Your bird images are so different to bird photos most photographers capture. The little blighters are too fast for me to photograph. I have always loved your style of artistic photography so am very pleased to have this book on my bookshelf. Kind regards Barb" To acknowledge Barb's talent as a photographer, here is an excerpt from my reply... "Barb, it means a lot to me that my work connects with photographers whose work I also admire. You have a gift for seeing beyond the obvious. I love that. It's what photographers do."

05.01.2022 "Inquisitive" This denizen came to say 'hello' during my early morning walk along Dumaresq Creek in Armidale. A storm the night before had freshened the landscape and dampened the bird's plumage. The highlight in the background was tamed with local adjustments in Lightroom.... 1/180th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 400 | monopod | 8 February 2020

05.01.2022 "Indigo & scarlet" Male Scarlet Honeyeater (Myzomela sanguinolenta) on a Bottlebrush Grass Tree flower-spike in Lake Innes Nature Reserve. 1/125th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 9 November 2020

04.01.2022 "The flurry of exit" A composite of two images from a burst sequence; in the foreground the Little Wattlebird's head just before it launched; in the background the motion blur of its departure thanks to low light and a slowish shutter speed. I like the fact that the image speaks about stalking birds with a camera and the fugitive opportunities that they present. For me, it's a game with all of the excitement and anticipation of the hunt.... 1/90th | f5.6 | 840mm | ISO 800 | monopod | 20 November 2020

04.01.2022 Dangars Lagoon, Uralla NSW. January 18, 2021. Apparently, it didn't go well for him.

04.01.2022 The final composite image was made with two files processed in Lightroom and Photoshop: (a) the Little Wattlebird thinking about flying; (b) the blur of its departure, courtesy of a slow shutter speed.

03.01.2022 "West of Yina" My son and his fiancée have purchased their own slice of Australia at an altitude of 1020m east of Armidale, where I attended school and university in the 1970s. Ruby and I were invited to inspect the property with them and the selling agent in November 2019 when it was still in the grip of drought. This dam was low but still a useful body of water. The ground was bare but for dry leaves and remnant wisps of grass. The two small trees in the foreground were gau...nt. What a difference some rain makesa lot of rain. The dam is full and the land is clothed in new green growth. Powder blue sprays of young eucalypts sprout under the canopies of mature box and stringybark trees that have survived the drought. The small trees in the foreground of this photograph are not responding; too far gone? On this misty morning, I enjoyed feeling the freshness and life that has returned to country that had been under such stress. Through birdsong, I heard a sound that quickened my fisherman's pulse and spawned thoughts of a haiku. dimples of rain in the quiet of dawn a cod implosion 1/125th | f2 | 50mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 22 March 2020

02.01.2022 "Sketch 2020" Recent rains have caused inflow and a rise in level at Lake Copeton. While there two weeks ago, I used a fast prime lens with a wide aperture to capture studies of smartweed against an out-of-focus background. While kneeling at the edge of the lake with my camera close to the water level and composing my image via an articulated live-view screen, I heard the faint whistling of wingbeats grow louder and louder. A flock of cormorants flew over and I shot repeatedl...y as they passed. This was the best image of the bunch. The image was processed in high-key in Adobe Lightroom. Two virtual copies with different monochrome filtration were selectively blended in Photoshop to enable the central green plant to be rendered darker than its companions for the benefit of composition and subject focus. 1/3000th | f1.2 | 50mm | ISO 200 | handheld | 13 February 2020

02.01.2022 I have some orders to process for tomorrow night's deadline. Thank you, those friends. Here's a preview of the imagery and haiku on p24-25 swept by headlights into blackness grass owl... black swans in afterglow blacker cadence of wingbeats black swans in moonlight (for Janice Bostock) lifting from darkness a barn owl touched by headlights ORDERS CLOSE in 24 hours 18:00 25/4/2020 80 page hard cover book "Avian ENCOUNTERS" $45 + $12.50 p&p Standard weight paper (615gm) $65 + 12.50 p&p Heavy weight paper (740gm)

02.01.2022 Dangars Lagoon, Uralla NSW. January 18, 2021.

01.01.2022 "Lake Innes Nature Reserve" An opportunity has arisen that is too good to pass upa 50x100cm canvas print for $49 + postage. So I've created this composite to try it out. The background is a composite of three images of burnt bushland in the Lake Innes Nature Reserve, created after the big fire In November 2019. Hidden (and not so hidden) in the image are ten birds, all but one of which was photographed in the vicinity of Tacking Point, Port Macquarie. All of the birds in the... image are found in the nature reserve. The canvas will not include the dark teal frame.