Creating a garden for native mokomoko is an excellent way to help protect our indigenous biodiversity, it’s fun, and can be hugely rewarding. Making a dedicated safe spot for mokomoko (lizards) in your garden is surprisingly simple and inexpensive. To get started, all it requires is a sunny, undisturbed part of your garden, and a few specific items to kick things off. Here’s a blog all about how I created my own ‘Mokomoko Manor’, and how it’s now home to multiple native skinks living their best lives in the Kāpiti sunshine.
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I am a contributing photographer to New Zealand’s leading stock image website: Truestock.
Read MoreSuccess at the NZIPP Iris Awards
I entered the 2022 NZIPP Iris Awards and was awarded one Silver and two Bronze awards
Read MoreBushy Park Tarapuruhi
Bushy Park Tarapuruhi is an incredible native sanctuary near Whanganui, and is absolutely full of toutouwai (North Island robins) and tīeke (North Island saddlebacks). I highly recommend adding it to your list of places to visit if you love our native wildlife and forests!
Read MoreWētā in my backyard
Wētā are awesome! This blog is about how I attracted wētā to my backyard using native planting, weeding, trapping and wētā hotels.
Read MoreThe magic of Piopiotahi - Milford Sound
In late February, I found out that I’d been offered a True Young Explorer scholarship position from Heritage Expeditions on their ‘Unseen Fiordland, Stewart Island, and The Snares’ cruise. I was BEYOND stoked. I had two weeks’ notice to apply for leave from work, get my gear sorted, and mentally prepare myself for getting way out of my comfort zone.
Read MoreStreet photography in Wellington - my approach
I gave a talk about my approach to street photography at a Wellington Photographic Society event. I discuss my style, ethics and using Fujifilm X-Series gear
Read MoreAttracting native wildlife to your backyard
A guide on how to create a safe backyard for our native wildlife in Aotearoa New Zealand
Read MoreAn encounter with a very rare white tauhou (waxeye)
An encounter with a very rare white tauhou/waxeye
Read MoreBackyard birding during a lockdown
In Aotearoa, we’re all in a lockdown where we can’t leave our homes until April 23rd at the earliest. This is to try and eliminate the spread COVID-19, a particularly shitty coronavirus that’s spread around the entire planet and is infecting thousands. It’s pretty grim.
Read MoreCook Strait Pelagic Trip - 01 Feb 2020
I’ve never seen so many seabirds in my life! So many, in fact, that I doubt I will accurately be able to name all of the different species. For many of these species, it was the first time I’d laid my eyes on them. A real highlight was seeing perhaps a hundred Salvin’s and white-capped mollymawks. There were so many that I didn’t actually know where to point my camera, which is an excellent problem to have as a wildlife photographer.
Read MorePenguin Place, Dunedin - April 2019
In April 2019 I headed to Ōtepoti Dunedin and visited Penguin Place, an awesome conservation project dedicated to protecting the critically endangered hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin).
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