Hinewai Reserve
We drove down to Akaroa, on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch, the other weekend. It's a neat little village nestled into a huge volcanic crater, which also happens to be one of the top marine...
Photography notes, travel stories, and observations from the field.
We drove down to Akaroa, on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch, the other weekend. It's a neat little village nestled into a huge volcanic crater, which also happens to be one of the top marine...
This is a niche topic covering photography notes from 15 helicopter flights as a marine biologist guide and photographer with South Pacific Helicopters...
Komodo is one of my favourite tropical dive destinations, so I was really excited to get back there – I hadn't been since 2023. Must be making some poor life choices.
This was a trip focused on manta and sea turtle photo ID research, and I was hosting a diving and snorkelling trip, so I expected mostly wide-angle sites—not muck diving that would need a full macro...
I wanted to record notes on the dive gear I used on this trip so I can create a gear reference for diving in Komodo. I also plan to make a regularly updated gear page on my website (simonjps.
I travel a lot for work, so I've gradually refined my travel setup over the years. Here's what's currently working for me.
Sony New Zealand requested I contribute a gear article for wildlife photography. I'm currently updating that list for 2025 so, if you stumble across this page, check back soon...
Our new (to us, I bought it used) camera arrived in the post today – a Sony A7R IV. Mads has been threatening to get into underwater photography, and last year a used...
Been neglecting the updates over here, but I'll get back onto it. I was able to do my first big post-plague trip, back to the Galapagos Islands, over July–Aug.
I was able to beg & borrow, though unsuccessfully steal, a drool-worthy Sony 135 mm f/1.8 lens for our South Island NZ trip earlier this year.
I was invited to share perspectives on responsible marine wildlife tourism for a Condé Nast Traveler article titled "[How to Responsibly Interact with Marine...
On the way back to Brisbane from Binna Burra (see that article here), Mads and I stopped off at Eagleby Wetlands based on a passin
We were able to get up to Binna Burra in Lamington National Park, southeast Queensland, for a couple of nights at the start of the month.
I was invited to come onto the Scuba Goat Podcast to talk 'at' the host, Matt Waters, about whale sharks last week, providing me with an excellent opportunity to pontificate at length about my...
Hopefully, you've all seen MMF's wonderful Ocean Giants magazine by now. I've been happy with our first two issues, but I'm planning to change it up a bit for...
Arakwal National Park, fringing Tallows Beach on the southern edge of Byron Bay, is a really nice spot to flip-flop about for a spot of golden hour wildlife photography.
This article documents my photo-identification research on wobbegong shark populations at Julian Rocks, Byron Bay, Australia, conducted as a collaborative project between Sundive Research and the Marine Megafauna Foundation.
South Atoll, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (drone photograph taken under permit with LAMAVE)
My friend 'Wildlife' Josh Guyan has written up a lovely piece on an epic encounter we had while travelling around Kruger National Park in South Africa together: [Behind the Shot: Double Leopards...
Banded wobbegong eating an ornate wobbegong. Photo © Loren Mariani via iNaturalist.org.
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