Friday, May 15, 2009

Geographical Magazine - May Issue

Geographical Magazine back home in the UK printed a story of ours on Indonesian bird keeping and the conservation efforts going on there to protect songbirds from extinction.

Ever been to a songbird competition? Crazy! Its like being at a football or rugby match with throngs of people screaming and waving their arms, judges meander under 50 bird cages while the stars of the show, tiny songbirds, sing their little hearts out trying to impress the judges and win their owners the grand prize - perhaps a trophy, some times a motorbike and at the national finals $22,500!

Dr. Paul Jepson at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment has been conducting research out there trying to shift the whole birdkeeping and competing industry, which is valued at around $60 million, away from wild capture birds and instead use captive bred birds. And the preliminary results after three years of Darwin funded research suggest that the conservation strategy is working, which is encouraging especially considering this news.





Monday, May 4, 2009

I Love Tofino

A wonderful weekend spent in Tofino, BC relaxing before we head up to Alaska at the end of this month. We stayed at the Gold Coast Retreat a sublime, beautiful hideaway just off Chesterman Beach and we just can't wait to go back.



Monday, March 23, 2009

Alaska Magazine

The gals over at Alaska Magazine called me a few weeks back to let me know that they had used one of my recent Bristol Bay salmon fishing images for the cover. They also decided to use another picture to open the feature article for their 2009 fishing issue. Exciting stuff! Its fantastic to see this image being put to great use when it comes from such an important fishery - long live salmon, not Pebble Mine!




Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Paddling Adverts

A couple of adverts for Wilderness Systems below. Go paddle!




Wilderness Systems

Wilderness Systems kayaks launched their new website recently. It has some great new features on the site like a Community section and Resources page to find out cool places to go paddling. I also worked with Wilderness Systems at the end of last year to create some new imagery, so check out the photos as you navigate the site!