Morning light starting to emerge. It is not often i use my 500mm lens for landscapes.

This was a hard one to catch in the reeds always dodging my autofocus…. and then staring at me all smug. cheeky tit.

Macro on the cheap-o! :)

And so it starts…. This is day one of taking a photo every day of the year in 2026. This project is not only about getting me back into the habit of making images and sharpening my technical skills, it’s also an opportunity to explore my new local landscape more deliberately. Despite moving to the south of France four years ago, my knowledge of where to find and observe wildlife remains embarrassingly thin. Day one began well — I spotted this little fellow on a morning walk through the park behind my house. Pretty happy with that start; let’s see if I can keep it going…. only 364 to go :)

My turtle image was published in Wildlife Australia Magazine, which was nice.

The largest seal colony in France

It is that time of the year were I look back at everything I have achieved, and plan ahead for the next year.

It's that time of the year where most of us run around trying to decide on gifts for the people in our lives. Here are some ideas!

How to protect your images online is a subject that can make any photographer paranoid. There are many horror stories of people stealing another photographers work that they had put up on the internet, and if like me, you don't particularly like people screwing around with your work, we want to protect it. So how can you protect your photographs online?

Adding the unpredictability and uncontrollably of nature to the technical and artistic complexity of photography leads to a wealth of challenges. Here are a few I have had to face!

Super telephoto-lenses are synonymous with sports and wildlife photography, and for very good reason. When you can't be right there in the thick of the action, they allow you to get optically closer. But a super-telephoto lens is NOT the be all and end all, and are often misunderstood or not utilised to the best. Here are some of the misconceptions I have encountered around super-telephoto lenses.

This years winners of the coveted NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards have been announced and do not disappoint!