April 2024
Bora Bora, You Beauty!
"Bora Bora You Beauty"! The sounds whispered through my lips as I gazed down...
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April 23, 2024
Oui, Oui, Maupiti.
"Oui, Oui, Maupiti", had become my trip slogan. After spending five days in Bora...
April 22, 2024
September 2023
Photography and Conservation
Photography, in both still and motion formats, has always played a pivotal role in...
September 9, 2023
July 2023
Black Banded Sea Krait
Black-Banded Sea Krait, scientifically known as "Laticauda semifasciata," is a type of sea snake...
July 12, 2023
April 2023
Motion Blur in Surf Photography
Motion blur in surf photography creates a sense of impact and conveys the image...
April 22, 2023
March 2023
Stepping Into The Wet Stuff
In life we cannot simply run from everything that can potentially harm us. Nobody...
March 14, 2023
January 2023
Polar Bears in Okinawa?
Polar Bears in Okinawa? Surely my eyes were deceiving me? How could the image...
January 27, 2023
November 2022
Dragging the Shutter
Dragging the shutter of a camera to create specific effects is something I use...
November 3, 2022
October 2022
Wave Photography
As with all waves they come in sets. A noticeable lull would then be...
October 12, 2022
August 2022
Macro Lighting Diffusion
Macro lighting diffusion is a pathway that many a macro photographer will tell is...
August 2, 2022
July 2022
Let Sleeping Bee’s Lay
Blue Banded Bees are an exquisitely colored species of Bee that calls Okinawa home....
July 19, 2022
Five Pointers for Nocturnal Wildlife Photography
Again, knowing the behavioral aspects of your subjects, and in that aspect, I focus...
July 13, 2022
Yomitan Gone Wild
Yomitan, as a district of Okinawa, is distant enough from the madding crowds of...
July 8, 2022
June 2022
Get The Book!
'Yambaru, the Green and Beating Heart of Okinawa' are the titles for both a...
June 15, 2022
May 2022
Natural Selection Officially Selected
Little did he prepare for his crusade to resound with equally minded and motivated...
May 9, 2022
Natural Selection
As a first time screenwriter it's an enormous sensation to have finally completed something...
May 4, 2022
January 2022
Sea, Wild and Earth, it all needs saving.
Yep, that's me hanging out on the back lawn at my dearly departed Grandmothers...
January 26, 2022
The Accelerated Destruction of Nature
There are times when so enraged I become at the abject destruction of all...
January 19, 2022
Diagnosis and moving forward.
Whether that is mixing with some of the regions most venomous of snakes or...
January 10, 2022
October 2021
A CASE for Humanity
There are no guarantees that my son, Joshua, will be able to strap on...
October 11, 2021
Subscribe for Change
Uniting and subscribing to the health of our Planet, is that such an alien...
October 8, 2021
September 2021
The Alien Concepts of Change
Change is a word we hear a lot these days. "Climate Change" "Change for...
September 30, 2021
Defining L.I.F.E, the way forward.
I know, I know, it's been six months since my last blog. I'm not...
September 24, 2021
June 2021
Addressing Plastic Pollution
So broken down now are plastics that in some locations it has been said...
June 1, 2021
May 2021
Wide Angle Macro Photography
Wide Angle Macro Photography, now if you're looking for something to really test your...
May 13, 2021
April 2021
Ishikawa’s Frog, Blue Morph
Ishikawa's Frog had evaded me since my arrival in Okinawa just over four years...
April 21, 2021
March 2021
Humpback Whale Calf Woes
Humpback Whales, is there no greater Oceanic majesty than these sentient leviathans? As yet...
March 31, 2021
One of Eight
Could I be 'One of Eight'? It seems wild to think that eight people...
March 27, 2021
Photographing Frogs, in my Underwear!
Photographing Frogs as a Macro Photographer I learned a long time ago any thoughts...
March 20, 2021
Running with the Dogs
Picture this. I was being driven along at about 10mph, clinging precariously to the...
March 9, 2021
The Snakes of Okinawa. Pt.1
For the Snakes of Okinawa the jungles of the Yambaru offer themselves as a...
March 7, 2021
Andersons Crocodile Newt Encounter
Andersons Crocodile Newt is pretty much a dinosaur. To be found during specific times...
March 1, 2021
February 2021
Amami Odd-Scaled Snake
I was hoping to get a glimpse of predation by Himei Habu Pit Vipers...
February 16, 2021
Cape to Cape, Done and Dusted!
"Never again" came the statement as I lay slumped in a bubbling mess of...
February 15, 2021
There’s Silver in Them Thar Hills!
And then I saw it. About 80cm in length what looked to be a...
February 8, 2021
January 2021
On the Road, Again.
Some of you may remember a couple of years ago when I walked the...
January 5, 2021
Adios 2020 and Balls to 2021!
I can't say I've ever been so happy to see the tail end of...
January 4, 2021
October 2020
But what if, you know, this is the end…?
I'm not one to use profanity in the public domain but in the case...
October 9, 2020
phonedomes
Using a dome port and housing has allowed me to create some pretty unique...
October 3, 2020
August 2020
Typhoon Maysak Preparations
Typhoon Maysak looks to be bearing down on Okinawa, and we're just starting to...
August 31, 2020
Desaturated Times
Very much needing my trusted felt bottomed booties to negotiate the razor sharp volcanic...
August 28, 2020
2020 Can Go To Hell!
And so I guess the message here is not to get downhearted. Yeah this...
August 25, 2020
Remedy
I'd seen a few home videos of folks documenting the simple idea of introducing...
August 14, 2020
Ocean Moments
I've had a love hate relationship with personal action cameras during my career thus...
August 13, 2020
Local Pixel Therapy
Pixel Therapy is my term of endearment for those times when getting out to...
August 12, 2020
Blue Corner, White Knuckles. Pt.1
From my youngest years I'd always been fascinated with images of islands in the...
August 10, 2020
Black and (Great) White
Great White Sharks, love them or hate them they are at the top of...
August 6, 2020
Streets of Yokohama
Streets of Yokohama. I'd often find myself wandering them when I absolutely needed to...
August 5, 2020
Maelstrom of Uncertainty
As the saying goes "We're Living in Uncertain Times", and never has it been...
August 3, 2020
July 2020
Putting Cameras on Tiger Sharks
Tiger Sharks, awesome yet formidable marine predators. Back in 2009 I'd been tasked by...
July 27, 2020
The Filtered Landscape
Landscape Photography is an incredibly satisfying art medium from the perspectives of both the...
July 14, 2020
Night Dragons of Yomitan
Macro Photography can be, and often is, an invite to premature baldness! Trying to...
July 13, 2020
Upping Your Photography Game
"You must have a great Camera" words often heard after introducing non-photographers to image...
July 11, 2020
The Magic of a 1.6sec Shutter
As you may have surmised after my years of posting Ocean related media, that...
July 10, 2020
Returning from Jungle Adventures
It had been a long time coming. I'd been locked in my office dealing...
July 7, 2020
June 2020
All Dewy Eyed
Macro Photography has always been something I’ve been drawn to both on land and...
June 4, 2020
Jungles of the North
On my first trip to Okinawa from my then base of Yokohama I had...
June 3, 2020
Local Wildlife Filming
When looking for wildlife to interact with during times of limited travel options what...
June 1, 2020
July 2019
Iriomote Jungle Adventures
Share Iriomote Jungle Adventures, just the name of the trip alone was tantalizing my...
July 17, 2019
June 2019
ND Filters at Sunset
Sunset Photography is a magical aspect of imaging that brings out the best in...
June 4, 2019
Crocodiles of Okinawa
Andersons Crocodile Newt, one of Okinawa’s more endearing of species is both endemic to...
June 1, 2019
May 2019
Milky Way Photography in Iriomote Island
Milky Way Photography, my biggest challenge to date. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an...
May 22, 2019
Cape Zanpa Adventures
Cape Zanpa has got to be one of Okinawa’s most visited locations. The lighthouse...
May 18, 2019
Blue Banded Bees
From a recent nocturnal foray to a local green area in Ginowan, Okinawa, where...
May 12, 2019
Motion of the Ocean at Sunset
Sunset Photography is a magical aspect of imaging that brings out the best in...
May 9, 2019
The Trashy Side of Macro Photography
Macro photography diffusion is the key to accomplishing great macro imagery. I mean we...
May 4, 2019
Habu Snakes of Okinawa
Ahh the Snakes of Okinawa, some love them, most hate them, or at least...
May 2, 2019