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Snow Leopard asleep
Snow leopards are one of the most beautiful of cats. This lady looks elegant, even asleep in a dappled autumn sunshine. This image was shot using the Sony 70-200 GM II lens at 200mm on the Sony A7RV at f/4 1/2000 ISO 6400 (no noise reduction!). I cropped the image a little to get rid …
Dingos in Daylight
The dingo was the only canid in Australia for millennia. This image was shot using the Sony 135 GM lens on the Sony A7RV at f/4 1/2000 ISO 200, and cropped to a square for composition. I haven’t used this combination a lot, but I should. The sharpness of the lens and the sharpness of …
Dragon without depth
Oops, I did it again! Yes, this is another of my “Don’t do as I did” posts. I ventured out to the Melbourne Zoo with the A7RV camera and the 135 f/1.8 GM lens. The temperature was low 20s Celsius, but there weren’t many clouds around, so we got some nice bright light (and the …
A fairy wren out of mating plumage
There are several species of fairy wren in Australia, and I’m not sure which species this one is. It is not in mating plumage – the splendid and superb fairy wren go bright blue for mating, instead of dull brown. No matter their plumage, however, they are rather hard to photograph, because they are forever …
The view from above
There are two female lions at Werribee Open Range Zoo, and they are mother and daughter. They were joined by a new male last year with a view to hearing the pitter patter of little paws – they are trying! This day was heavily overcast, and the male didn’t seem to be interested in joining …
Hippos heading into the water
These hippos at Werribee Open Range Zoo are a mother and two daughters. They had been out for a bit, and decided it was time to get wet. Not a radical decision for a hippo. Click on the images below to see them larger. These images were all shot on the Sony 200-600mm G on …
Article Series
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Series: The Dams of Greater Sydney
ByThis is a series of articles exploring the network of dams that provide water to Sydney.
Series: Exploring our 5km bubble
This is a series of articles on images captured within a 5 km radius from our house in Sydney, Australia. On 2 August 2020, a state of disaster was declared in Victoria due to the significant rise in COVID19 cases, and stage 4 restrictions were imposed on metropolitan Melbourne. As part of these restrictions, during …
Series: Floriade 2020
In 2020, Floriade has been reimagined (due to COVID-19) with the celebration moving from its traditional home in Commonwealth Park to bloom across Canberra.
Series: Celebrating 21 years of Digital Photography
This is the first of a new series of articles celebrating a selection of photographs taken in the last 21 years, from the very first digital camera we purchased in 1999 (a Kodak DC-220) to the current portfolio of cameras that we use daily. Join us over the next few weeks as we trace a personal journey following the evolution of digital photography from infancy to the amazing camera technology available today.
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