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)
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.
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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, / /
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
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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