One of my chief aims in macro photography has been to get closer to my subjects to highlight the extraordinary beauty and complexity of Australia’s invertebrate wildlife, but budget can play a big part in the gear one chooses. When I first started, it was just a fixed-lens camera with a macro setting and a…
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As far as photographic locations go, Dandenong Ranges National Park couldn’t be more convenient for me. The park boundary is only a few hundred meters from where I live, so it’s the perfect place to escape to without too much forward planning. The park covers an area of approximately 32 square kilometres in Melbourne’s outer…
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Every couple of months I like to jump in my car and take a drive out along Maroondah Highway, heading north-northeast away from Melbourne. In no time I have left behind the outer suburbs and entered the wine country of the Yarra Valley. I keep going, passing through the town of Healesville and winding up…
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Living in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, I have a number of national, state and public parks that are within easy reach when I wish to get out with my camera. I have the Dandenong Ranges National Park only a few hundred meters from where I live, Yarra Ranges National Park and Kinglake National…
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I should start by saying that I never actually stayed in Cairns at all, but for whatever reason I have always referred to the holiday as The Cairns Trip. But anyway…. In October 2013, after a few years of frustrating false starts, I finally got to fulfil my lifelong dream of visiting the lush tropics of Far North Queensland….
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