After 20 or so years with a camera in hand, I have amassed a huge corpus of work spanning nearly every major genre. Below is a small collection of items from across my career organised by central themes, as well as individual series projects exploring less well-defined topics or events in a more intimate way.
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Celestial Bouquet
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For a brief window over the summer months in lutruwita / Tasmania's alpine plateaus, one of the most iconic species of the regions bursts into flower: Richea scoparia. Colloquially known as simply Scoparia, it occasionally goes by another much less appealing name -- Bushwalker's Nightmare.
With sharp, stiff blades set behind the ephemeral bloom, most of the year it lays in wait to slice unsuspecting ankles as they brush past. Here, under a rising partial moon and the first traces of Milky Way for the year, it fluoresces brightly in a range of colours under multispectral light.
Cider
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In a narrow sliver of Tasmania’s highlands, one species dominates the landscape: the Miena Cider Gum (Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata). Found in only a few dozen hectares of exposed plateau, many members of the population have left ghostly remains after extensive fire damage. Owing to Bortle 1 skies (the darkest class of sky, akin to the void of space with no terrestrial interference to inhibit visibility of faint details) the area serves as fertile ground for imaging, often pairing both galactic and atmospheric sights – such as the "dark emu", intensely colourful airglow, and the aurora as seen on this evening – seamlessly.
Community
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Concentric
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Contemplative
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Dust Devil
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Endurance
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Frosted
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Hoar
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Little Devil
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Little Devil Ii
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Pencil Pine
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Pencil Pines
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Perseverance
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Persistence
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Pine
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lutruwita/Tasmania's 'pine' trees need no introduction to those in the know, especially the Pencil pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides) which grows only sporadically and can stand for thousands of years. Skies are rarely clear in their natural range, but when they are, their isolation and altitude makes them perfect subjects for astronomy. Seeing ancient light that has travelled longer than modern man has been alive rise over these survivors is a rare treat.
Pine Lake Under Snow
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Red
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Remain in Light
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Secret Garden
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Silvered
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Temperance
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TENDRIL
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The Creation of Adam
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Numbering just under 300 and standing for hundreds of years defiant against one of the harshest environments in Australia, the Miena cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata) has been a consistent companion for the traditional custodians of the land, the Tyerrernotepanner who have lived beside and relied on nourishment from for millennia. Its high altitude, usually dry air, and proximity to very little humanity make it an excellent observing companion for astronomy -- a passtime sadly being ruined by the relentless acceleration of 'space junk' - criss-crossing our skies at hellish pace, and leaving inescapable light trails in their wake. Humans have left indelible marks across virtually every environment on terra firma, like the relentless march of climate change that has driven the Ciders to the brink of extinction; particularly bad wildfire seasons in the recent decades have wiped the vast majority of the population out, leaving ghostly gnarled remains on the alpine landscape.
Wheres Wallaby
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Whiteout
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With the Ancients
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The Miena cider gum, Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata, is one of the rarest trees on planet earth. Confined to a tiny swathe of Tasmania’s high country near yingina (Great Lake), much of the population was destroyed by fire. Only 8 small clusters remain across a small handful of hectares.
Standing with such rare and mystical specimens always makes my skin crawl.