Category Archives: Conservation

Photo of the Day(s)!

I’ve been lucky enough to have been selected twice this month for Photo of the Day on POTD.com.au with both Loved and Lion. See here for all the current March winners. I was also recently published in Yes Magazine in their recent edition focusing on “Can Animals Save Us”.   Yes Magazine is an awesome ad...

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The Silvery Gibbon

Click for info on buying this image. This is my first image of a Silvery Gibbon.  Rare within Zoos, only 33 worldwide are held outside Indonesia.     This particular Gibbon is one of two at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, though I believe the only Austalian breeding pair is at Perth Zoo, Western Australia.   ...

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The White Lions of Timbavati

Those of us who are nature/zoo/wildlife photographers always tend to have that one species that means more than the others, that may even have lead us to become photographers in the first place. For me, Lions were a childhood passion (only just exceeded by my love of Collies who also happen to have manes!) From...

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The Weight of the World

Last week I ordered a brand new lens – the Canon 100-400mm, perfect for the zoo.  Eager and ready to go out on the weekend with it and see how it would change the way I shoot at the zoo,  I was kind of unimpressed to realise the weather bureau hadn’t faked me out during...

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Captive

I found an interesting article about the ethics of photographing captive animals at NatureScapes.net – “Can Photographing Wildlife Models make Conservation Sense” The article is quite timely considering my decision to raise extra money for Gorilla Conservation, and is something all zoo and/or nature photographers have to consider. An animal in a zoo is always...

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