Steve Paxton's photos

you wonder how hard it is to get photos of birds like this this is a 50% crop the bird is tiny and just look at the colours around it. add to that they move very fast these two where enjoying the sun. www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Stipiturus-malachurus

you wonder how hard it is to get photos of birds like this this is a 50% crop the bird is tiny and just look at the colours around it. add to that they move very fast these two where enjoying the sun. www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Stipiturus-malachurus

www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/margaret-river-fires-four-years-on/6964044 www.margaretrivermail.com.au/story/5558851/40-room-lodge-proposed-for-wallcliffe-house-site

www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/margaret-river-fires-four-years-on/6964044

www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/margaret-river-fires-four-years-on/6964044

My wife decided it was time to put up a tree in our new home (one year). Hope I have done the arrangement justice in a corner of our home.

After years of surfing and almost the daily shark attacks on surfers I promised my wife I would stay out of the water. JUST some times the salt in my veins gets the better of me and I long to get WET. Enjoy my kind of heaven.

For this shot to make sense put the following in Google earth. 33°59'33.81"S 114°59'20.01"E It will make sense. from high up on the cliff with a long lens. 33°59'26.87"S 114°59'22.32"E The Actual Paw.

Getting up early the benefit the beach has not on foot print all washed away with the high tide

Rocky out crops of very sharp limestone

A concept shot. Surround the tree in a halo. Easier said than done when you cant see the Southern Cross or the Pointers. this was method three as it was all I could see. I watched for days the expected cloud cover to see if it was even possible. www.ipernity.com/doc/1073393/37255060/in/album/723117 On the bus trip we went back to the same pace and I had a window in the dark of 1/1/2 hours before the bus left. I am out in a field in grass heads chest height( snake territory) Electric fence at my back. This is only 40 of the total 50 shots before the clouds closed the night far to early but thats part or Astro photography. I am chuffed my head shot you can see before you in all its unexpected glory. PIP three years earlier.

I had some time after breakfast In Bunbury so I went across the road to capture the "game".

the Basalt pillar in Bunbury water front high tide covered the pillars with sea weed. Bleached white by the sun.

One of many you could loose all your money shopping in.. Film 100ASA Kodak 50mm F1.8 Olympus OM-2N

A full 360 view of the observation area at Chinamans point and all the fences. HFF

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_ibis I have know they are here never seen one before.