Welcome
As a wildlife photographer, I make an effort to travel to interesting places in search of photographic subjects. I also like to share my images with others, and I also enjoy helping others to see and photograph animals and scenery for themselves. This rather simple idea thus formed the rationale for the development of this website. In here you will find photographic library of wildlife and landscapes, descriptions of interesting places and animals that you might like to see, links to tours and accommodation with a wildlife theme, some basic notes on photography and an ever-expanding list of links and publications to help you identify Australian wildlife. The website is only quite new, so there is plenty of scope to expand and add to it. I am always interested in other people’s ideas and experiences. Drop me a line or comment on some of the posts. Also, I am working on a simple system that will enable you to order prints from any of the images in the galleries or other pages. Over time, I am hoping that this website will build to be a truly valuable travelling resource for wildlife photographers.
Do remember to check out the Photo Galleries! (link in right side panel) They are easy to gloss over!!!
A Journey in Space and Time
Many countries around the world have wonderfully unique and amazing scenery and wildlife that are found nowhere else. Australia, the island continent, has its fair share.
Australia has some of the oldest landscapes on Earth and with an amazing assemblage of marsupials and monotremes that have remained quarantined from the relatively hectic pace of evolutionary change that swept the rest of the globe. Animals like the platypus and echidna remind us of a time, millions of years ago, when the evolution of mammals had just started.
Australia also has its share of modern placental mammals that have moved across from the Asian continent in relatively recent times. These include rodents, many of our bats and of course, man.
The landscape, having succumed to the forces of erosion over hundreds of millions of years, is now essentially flat. Once upon a time, its mountain ranges stood taller than the Himalayas and its dry dusty interior was cloaked in ancient rainforest. It’s not easy to reconcile all this with what we see today, but perhaps you can glean some fragment of appreciation, standing in a central Australian gorge; and as you place your hands on the stone-embedded ripple marks in the quartzite strata, reflect upon the fact that these ripples formed in an ancient, shallow sea before life itself ever existed on Earth. We can only pretend to imagne the time span – in fact, it is unimaginable.
Bruce Thomson
