When I was just starting out in my photography journey I was sitting listening to a speaker at a club meeting talking about how he planned all his images he would take. I was thinking that I am a nature photographer, how can you plan a nature image? I did not think anything more about planning my images for quite some time. Now fast forward about 6 years and I plan just about all of my images. So what changed and how do I plan a nature image? I used to just go out and see wha

Welcome to my blog, after some time thinking that I should start a blog I have finally done it and started. First up is one of my favorite subjects to photograph the Sacred Kingfisher (kōtare). One of the subjects that I have spent hours and hours photographing, I love their amazing colours. The blues and greens mixed with the hint of white and yellow is so striking. I am very lucky to live very close to Pauatahanui Inlet. This inlet has a large number of kingfishers that cal