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Landscape photography in colour is for me not so much an art form as a way of recording those places where I feel some connection with nature as it has evolved without major human impact. (Accepting of course, that indigenous Australians had some impact, particularly with the use of fire.) Although landscapes can include all sorts of human created environments I’ve left those to other pages.

It’s the ecology of the landscape that’s of most interest to me. How ecosystems come about and are maintained. The complicated relationships between plants, animals, the geology and climate that create a particular landscape. It’s still possible in Australia to find natural areas untouched by humans, although they’re shrinking as our population grows. The south-east corner of the state of Queensland where I live has the fastest growing population in Australia and I’ve witnessed enormous environmental changes over the past thirty or so years. Global warming threatens even more, as yet uncertain changes, not just here but throughout the world.

The landscape photographs here are ones I’ve taken over many years of visiting wild places within Australia and abroad, particularly New Zealand and northern parts of India. They exist to illustrate the beauty of the natural world both for now and the future.

Photo-Gallery