Monthly Archives: May 2016

Now this is an exceptional experience – swimming with a school of manta rays in the Solomon Islands.

I’ve gone after manta rays on several assignments in the South Pacific – each time without success – until today.

In fact, my last attempt in Micronesia nearly killed me as I stupidly tried to get ahead of three of them in a strong current and vomited into my regulator from over-exertion at about 20 metres, leaving the manta’s to disappear into the burley of my previous night’s meal as I struggled to get to the surface.

I’m just back in Honiara on my way through to another island and, as you can see, I’m practicing my half above the water, half under the water photography (I’ll post a few tips later).

The national tourism authority of the Solomon Islands has commissioned a major overhaul of its promotional imagery, with two assignments leading into the creation of an On-Line Photo Library similar to those we have build for Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. I have shot the Solomons before (pic above) on occasional assignments over the years,...

One of my client’s has just postponed their shoot (joy) so I have a bit of time to practice a few new photography techniques. So, last night, I jumped in the car and headed about 200 kilometres west of Brisbane to take advantage of the new moon which, I’m told, lends itself to those galaxy...

I’m sitting at Perth Airport on my way home, finishing off a shoot of Western Australia’s Coral Coast (preview follows).