Photography
Here is a selection of my photographs taken on film and digitally - most recent stuff is first. Digital images shot with a Nikon D1X; film with a Nikon F5. I normally use Velvia for landscape and Provia for anything else.
All images are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
August '04 - I took some time to visit the outstanding Taronga Zoo in Sydney, having tacked some much-needed vacation on the end of a business trip down-under. Although I went scuba-diving on the Great Barrier on the same trip, it was the lions and tigers of Taronga that made the greatest impression - and the best pictures.
Burning bright... a denizen of Taronga Zoo
August '04 - Prior to my visit to Taronga Zoo (above), I dived on the Great Barrier Reef with two friends and a boatload of miscellaneous Europeans! It was a lot of fun - although 11 dives in barely two-and-a-half days is not exactly relaxing. Here are some of the underwater highlights - taken with either semi-professional underwater 35mm cameras, or good old cheap underwater disposables. Surprisingly, it's sometimes tough to tell the difference...
Hanging off the anchor chain - waiting to surface
August 15th '02 - more vacation time. In a borrowed 4WD, Myron Blazek and I took a trip down into Waipio Valley, to explore one of the largest waterfalls I have ever seen.
Waipio Valley as seen from the lookout point
On 4th August 2002 I got up far too early in the morning, and went with some jolly good and equally insomniac friends to see the lava flows in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - a recent burst of activity had formed new land - technically, a 'bench' of just-cooled lava that had overrun the coast road.
Scott Fisher, Ian Richardson and I braved the early hour and the tourists to see the newest piece of the Big Island.
Scott Fisher photographs the Big Island's newest land
When a telescope like Gemini North goes into an Engineering Shutdown, people like me are at the summit, working. Of course, we aren't without our cameras...
Gemini North - top end and trusses
A trip to summit provides some spectacular views and the chance to take a close look at a very unusual and rare plant - the Silversword. It's just another day at Gemini...
A Silversword on the high slopes of Mauna Kea