What is a nemesis bird? For birders it can be defined as “a bird that has eluded a birder despite many attempts to see it”. The precise definitions people use vary, but the gist is the same. For a bird photographer, I would define it as “a bird that you …
This Auckland Island Pipit was found hunting through the grass on New Zealand’s Enderby Island. It’s similar to the pipits we get here in Australia, although there are apparently calls to classify it has a separate species rather than as a subspecies. They’re quite bold birds: not as skittish as …
Gerald is an Auckland Island Banded Dotterel (the endemic subspecies of the Banded Dotterel). I photographed him on New Zealand’s Enderby Island (part of the Auckland group) last December. I made this photograph with a Canon EOS 7D Mark II and a Sigma 120-300mm/2.8 lens while walking around the island. …
These Auckland Island Shags are a species endemic to the Auckland Islands, where I photographed this group last December. The difference in colour between the juveniles and adults is quite striking. A “gulp” is the collective noun for cormorants/shags. We will be returning to this location in December 2016 as …
This image was made in December 2015, in a location we will visit on our December 2016 Subantarctic photo workshop.
This is the continuation of the travel log from parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t read them yet please start there! Day 10, Campbell Island Having arrived in the sheltered waters of Perseverance Harbour overnight, after breakfast we headed out in two groups for all-day activities (again with packed lunches). …
In December 2016 LuminOdyssey are running another photography workshop tour to some of the World-Heritage-listed subantarctic islands south of New Zealand. Like some of our other workshops, we will be travelling on a ship with other tourists. In this case the ship (Heritage Expeditions‘ Spirit of Enderby) carries almost 50 passengers, of …
