Tumultuous Tasmania
65,000 frames. 8 months in the field. One film about an island that never sits still.
Do You Even Backup? (A Photographer’s Guide to Not Losing Everything)
Every hard drive will fail eventually. Every computer will die. The question is not if it will happen – it is whether you will be ready when it does.
From Darkness Comes Wonder: A Beginner’s Guide to Astro Landscape Photography
The night sky has always called to us. Long before electric light washed it away from our cities, humans looked up and felt the pull of something vast, ancient, and alive. Astrophotography is an act of reclaiming that wonder — and it’s more accessible than you think.
Photography Workshops in Tasmania – What to Expect
People sign up for photography workshops for different reasons. Some want to learn their camera settings properly. Some want access to locations they couldn’t find on their own. Some have the technical knowledge but want to develop their eye. A few just want an excuse to be in the Tasmanian wilderness with someone who knows …
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Aurora Australis Tasmania – How to See and Photograph the Southern Lights
The forecast said Kp4. Possible aurora activity for southern Tasmania. I’d seen that forecast a hundred times and driven out anyway, usually to stand in a paddock for two hours watching nothing happen. But you go. You always go. Because the one time you don’t is the time it happens. This particular night it happened. …
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Fagus Season in Tasmania – Autumn Colour in the Alpine Zone
If you’ve spent time in Tasmania’s mountains in autumn, you already know about fagus. If you haven’t, let me tell you about the most spectacular thing that happens in this part of the world every year – and almost nobody outside Tasmania knows it exists. Nothofagus gunnii – fagus, or deciduous beech – is the …
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Fungi Season in Tasmania – What to Look For and Where to Find It
Every autumn, something remarkable happens on the forest floor in Tasmania. While the trees are doing what trees do – dropping leaves, going dormant, waiting out the cold – the fungi emerge. Quietly, overnight, in colours that seem almost impossible for something growing out of a rotting log in a rainforest. I’ve been photographing Tasmanian …
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Best Photography Locations in Tasmania – A Local Photographer’s Guide
I’ve been photographing Tasmania for over twenty years. In that time I’ve covered most of the island – from the remote southwest to the east coast bays, from the alpine zone to the rainforest floor. These are the locations I keep coming back to. Not because they’re the most Instagram-famous, but because they consistently deliver …
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Mount Anne Overnight – Chasing Light in Tasmania’s Southwest
The plan was simple. Two days, one night, summit of Mount Anne, get the shot I’d been thinking about for years. The reality, as it usually is in Tasmania’s southwest, was more complicated. I’d been watching the forecasts for weeks. The southwest is notoriously difficult – systems roll in from the Southern Ocean with almost …
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Milky Way Photography in Tasmania – A Complete Guide
There are places in the world where the Milky Way is so bright it casts shadows. Tasmania is one of them. I’ve photographed the night sky from a lot of locations over the years, and Tasmania consistently ranks among the best. The combination of dark skies, dramatic landscapes, clear southern hemisphere views of the galactic …
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