Storms can provide wonderful opportunities for capturing photos that are a bit out of the ordinary. Everyday scenes can become transformed when storm clouds gather or the sun's rays peek through. Here a couple of my recent photos that show…
A mid-winter scene in Greymouth. This view is taken from the Cobden side of the Grey River and shows the viewing platform on the Blaketown breakwater with the beach at Blaketown beyond that and in the distance a fresh coating…
A Kotuku or White Heron (Egretta alba modesta) performs a dance and stretches its wings after preening itself at Lake Mahinapua on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. This photo was taken with my Olympus E-5…
This photo has been the most popular on my Facebook page, easily eclipsing my other photos in number of page views, times it has been shared, number of Likes for the photo and it has also brought an increase in…
Summer Spinz demonstrating her impressive skills with the hula hoop at the Gypsy Fair in Greymouth in 2013. A set of photos I took of Summer with the hula hoop were the first photos I had published in a newspaper…
Wacky the Wax-eye has become the official mascot of Bob McAuliffe Photography. It all started a few months ago when I was looking out my kitchen window and saw a flock of Wax-eyes around my compost bin. It wasn't much…
I photographed this showy mistletoe in the Bealey Valley in Arthurs Pass National Park. Always curious to find out about things new to me I looked it up and found that there are several species of mistletoe in New…
The Lantern Berry (Luzuriaga partviflora), known to the Maori as Puwatawata, is a small creeping plant of damp forest, often growing in wet moss. This plant showing the flower and the berry was photographed in North Okarito Forest in…
Here is the same scene as the previous post but taken from a different viewpoint and at a different time of day. This one is late in the evening just on sunset as is evidenced by the pink tinge on…
It's only November but in the last few days we've had some very warm weather. At the weekend quite a few people cooled off in this natural swimming hole formed by recent wave action at Cobden Beach. When the tide…
