I recently spent two weeks travelling around the South Island, sightseeing and photographing some of the fantastic landscapes and wildlife found there. I now have a few late nights ahead culling thousands of photos. All going well, over the next couple of weeks I should have some nice shots of crested grebes, yellow-eyed penguins, rare skinks and stunning scenery to upload.
When photographing wetland birds I like to get right in there with them. The birds are often more relaxed about a person in/on the water than they are about someone approaching on land, and it opens up many lighting, background and shooting angle options. I knew I would be visiting areas known to have the invasive freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata (didymo) so I had to take some simple but important precautions (read more…)