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Project Scorpion: The Glowing Escape Artist 🦂
How I Ended Up Photographing a Scorpion. It all started about a year ago, in 2024, while I was photographing a Noisy Pitta. I was fully camouflaged, sitting motionless in the undergrowth, when I heard footsteps approaching. Not wanting to cause a heart attack by suddenly materializing in front of someone, I stood up and…
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Falling for the Small Things: Discovering the Art of Macro 🪲
I often joke that I was born with a camera in my hands. Over the years, I’ve explored a wide range of photographic styles—panoramic landscapes, infrared scenes, long-lens wildlife work, and more. Each genre brought its own challenges and rewards, and I embraced them with curiosity and passion. But one area I deliberately avoided was…
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Jewel of the Jungle: Chasing the Elusive Noisy Pitta 🦜
Where I live, Noisy Pittas are only seasonal visitors. They arrive in the winter months, staying for just a few precious weeks or months before vanishing back to higher elevations. As altitude migrants, they move between lowland and upland forests depending on the season—a behavior that makes encounters even more fleeting and unpredictable. Photographing the…
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Patience and the Pacific Heron 🪿
This morning at the pond, I had a quiet encounter that reminded me once again why photography is as much about patience as it is about timing. What followed was a mesmerizing display of precision and instinct. The heron began to pluck tadpoles from the water one by one, each movement quick and deliberate. It…
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Chasing Grebes in the Tanami: A Photography Journey 🦆
The Tanami Desert isn’t a place one typically associates with water birds. But after a rare desert downpour, the landscape transformed overnight. Shallow pans and clay depressions filled with rainwater, creating temporary oases in the otherwise arid expanse. One such ephemeral pond became the unlikely stage for my latest photography project. I arrived just after…