To date I have photographed around 250 species of Australian wildlife (including more than 220 species of birds!). All found and photogra…
To date I have photographed around 250 species of Australian wildlife (including more than 220 species of birds!). All found and photographed in the wild over the last few years. click here to view the list of species Yet I consider myself a novice ‘birder’ and don’t even use binoculars to help me locate species. Recipe: research + petrol + walking + luck! (add in some flies, dust and corrugated roads for good measure) To me there are few things more satisfying than travelling and exploring new places then finding new species to add to my photo collection. Australia has such an amazing variety of wildlife out there! Our travels have included wetlands, coastal areas, mallee scrub, woodland and forests. Day trips or longer trips that can see us camping and ‘roughing it’ for a few days at a time. I love it – each trip is a bit of an adventure. I have a range of my wildlife images here on Redbubble, available as cards and prints for purchase. / click here to view above images and many more A portion of sales will be donated to wildlife conservation or rescue. If you see something on my other sites that you would like to see offered as a card, print or t-shirt here on Redbubble, drop me a line! Thanks for looking ~ and enjoy our wildlife! Cheryl Ridge/chezzy designs View my Redbubble range by theme Visit my extensive online Photo galleries Visit my Cafepress shop email: chezzyr@yahoo.com / (please do not leave any comments on this page. You are however / very welcome to email me or send me a bubblemail)
Okay I know I have left some of you in suspense and that is cruel. For those of you who have know idea what I am talking about… Well on…
Okay I know I have left some of you in suspense and that is cruel. For those of you who have know idea what I am talking about… Well one of the pictures alludes to how a person traverses thick ice without the aid of anything useful…. So lets start from the beginning- two Australians, me and a guide. The guide who had earlier told me to be careful blowing off… a cliff – was now telling me to be careful blowing off on ice. What must he think of me? I think it is the English language said in a foreign tongue that makes this amusing. Well I did inform Magnus that I was always careful where I blew off. Anyway before me spanned a plateau of thick ice. Oh yes I am wearing sterdy walking boots, which in hindsight, was a marvellous idea. Although it might have been better if they had suckers or crampons protruding from them. Of course it was lucky they didn’t because I might be compelled to try them out on vertical walls, as one does with such things… So to the ice. One very large weighted camera bag, one camera and a person who has much skill on ice as an elephant has tight-rope walking… So what happens- I stood on the edge of the ice for a while looking like the kid who had not been picked for the school team. The two Australians did their best iceskating moves, and me, well I just stared and stared. Finally I watched a couple fall over and decided it wasn’t for me. There was one thing for it: all fours. Oh yes a crowd of tourists arrive on a tour bus just as I venture on my knees towards the water fall. Please noteI am wearing a big jakcet, a scarf, a hat, trousers and a huge rucksack of camera gear. So I figure that if polar bears can do it so can I. Well there is a technique… Opposite arm to opposite leg no less- keeps the weight in the centre… It worked too until I got to the edge of the rope and realised there was not way I was going to be able to stand up. Now there was a moment of perfection where I noticed things the other tourists had not seen. The angle was perfect. Others were just skidding, falling over, getting up, taking their picture of the waterfall and going again. Oh no… not me. I was on all fours heading away from the crowd. The angle had enabled me a glimpse of a field of grass clad ice and it was amazing. As I was traversing the tretcherous five meters a crampon-clad smugo circled me a couple of times grinning. He pointed smugly at his crampons. I pointed smugly at the ground, ‘I have seen things others won’t see from here.’ / ‘Oh,’ he said in the ‘she actually completely insane tone’. Never mind, people see the world their own way and mind was similar to that of a dog’s view, which I might add was pretty interesting and made a change. Anyway to the icefield. I took my pictures, was stared at, then made my way to the cafe where everyone sat with their backs to the view. I shook my head, found another ice-sheet and continued my photographic journey until the Australians were completely bored. And then we were whisked off to the next place…. I will tell you more about that in another entry…
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/ / / Just in case any of you are interested I will, over the next few weeks, be uploading some wildlife Christmas Cards. Below is a small sample of what is to come. / / / / / / Steve, / /
Thank you so much to Scott and Darlene Ruhs, fabulous hosts of Canada…the Great White North for featuring my photo *Dreaming of Summ…
Thank you so much to Scott and Darlene Ruhs, fabulous hosts of Canada…the Great White North for featuring my photo Dreaming of Summer Travels. How ironic you should pick this photo tonight, because we just mapped out our trip west this evening! Thank you thank you for this honor. Also, a great big thank you to Sharon Mau, fabulous host of AMERICAS~Rural, Urban, Wild, Free-Expressions of Artists for featuring my photo This Side Or That Side this evening. I am so honored by this.
Aloha, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer / who purchased one of my matted prints this morning! I very much app…
Aloha, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer / who purchased one of my matted prints this morning! I very much appreciate your kindness, thank you so much! / I sincerely hope you enjoy my image of the beautiful Moose displayed in your home. Please let me know how it looks when you receive it. I would love to know who purchased this matted print to thank you personally, but if you prefer to remain anonymous I certainly understand. Thank you so much for your gift of Aloha!!_ Mahalo nui loa!! E pili mau na pomaika`i ia `oe! Aloha e Malama pono Sharon Mau Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 SOLD / 1x Matted Print A beautiful cow Moose and her yearling Calf browsing near North Pole Alaska ~ Winter Scenics
Birds of prey fascinate me. We often see them on road trips / soaring high in the sky, riding thermals, or sitting / on powerlines. Less of…
Birds of prey fascinate me. We often see them on road trips / soaring high in the sky, riding thermals, or sitting / on powerlines. Less often down at our level sitting on / fence posts or picking off road kill. There are often times we wished we werent conspicuous / or that our car was silent. Wild bird photography is / challenging and frustrating. These creatures are wild / and free, with the blink of an eye they can fly off / never to be seen again. So I actually consider myself / extremely fortunate to have photographed so many wild / birds over the last few years. This was probably the wildife highlight of my recent / weekend away – a young Brown Falcon had alighted / on a fence post. We stopped the car as we do but the / Falcon took off – as they tend to do. It alighted / on a fence post in the distance – rinse and repeat! / Let us try for third time lucky. With a quiet prayer/wish / asking the Falcon to stay a while I got out of the car / and crept around sticking close to the car. The Falcon / remained on the post with its eye on me, raised its / wings a bit as if it was about to take off but then / started preening. I walked slowly towards the Falcon but averting / my gaze and got to within 15…or maybe even 10 / feet of the bird! It remained on the post in / beautiful daylight with a backdrop of greenery, / blue sky and wattle. I was even able to move / a little and change angles without the bird / flinching. Hard to tell how many moments I got / with the bird but it was a magical experience / and I got numerous images before it flew off / and disappeared into the wide blue yonder. Click here to view/purchase this image
Here is a selection of my favourite work in my folio, and would all make great Christmas gifts, and look great hanging on any wall! A…
Here is a selection of my favourite work in my folio, and would all make great Christmas gifts, and look great hanging on any wall! All my work is available in different styles and formats available through redbubble, and here is a preview: Farm Windmill Mosman Bay Boatshed At Dusk Jetty At Dusk Water Under The Bridge Cygnets Mobile Home Crawley Edge Boatshed Swan River Jetty At Sunset Thunderstorm At Dusk Bathed In Light Bathed In Gold Moody Morning Crepuscular Rays Sunshine After the Storm Kwinana Grain Jetty At Dusk Crawley Edge Boatshed Panorama Pink Cherry Blossom Flowers Standing out in a crowd Lake Clifton Thrombolites Lake Clifton Thrombolites Lily flower Reflections Mammatus clouds Honey Bee Lancelin Sand Dune Dusk At The Dunes Lancelin Sand Dune Three Of A Kind Path Of Shadows Sand dune / / Decoy At Sunrise Peaking through the window Kalbarri Beach / / Kalbarri Beach / / Kalbarri Beach Pinnacles / / Boat on the beach DNA Tower at Sunset Perth City Dusk Kings Park Lights Kings Park Lights Peak Hour Traffic Noble Falls Panorama Collie Dam Bird on a branch / / Black Swans Farm Trees At Sunset Chinese Meal Chinese Noodles Chinese Noodles
Presenting my new calendar / featuring a selection of wi…
Presenting my new calendar / featuring a selection of wild Australian birds in flight. / Species featured: / Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo / Sulphur Crested Cockatoo / Black Swan / Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo / Australian Pelican / Australasian Gannet / Pacific Gull / Egret / Whiskered Tern / Royal Spoonbill / White Bellied Sea Eagle / Kite
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