Birds of the week. Three Black Kites and a dead frog
Three birds, a dead frog and a fire. A few hours at the site of a grass fire outside the small Gulf town of Borroloola.
When the women came out to dance. Barunga Festival 2013
The annual Barunga Festival features the bunggul, where traditional Aboriginal dancers show their skills. And then the women came out to dance. This is what I saw. […]
Gurrumul, Sammy Butcher, ‘mature quail’ and great footy. Barunga Festival day 2
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu came to Barunga, captured our hearts and left us all better for it. My report from day 2 of the 2013 Barunga Festival.
Barunga Festival day 1. The Chief Minister is starving and the Roma Bar needs soy milk!
Great fun, music, sport and culture under northern skies at the Northern Territory's annual Barunga Festival. My report from day one.
Small town of the week: Post, Texas. Pop. 3,700 and small change.
Post, Texas. Despite drought, the economy and the decline of small-town America it survives, fed now not on the flawed utopian dreams of its eponymous founder but by Texas sweet crude and the hundreds of pumpjacks that suck it from deep below the town.
Hat-hunting in Arizona
When my beloved Stetson Open Road is all worn-out and consigned to the hat-rack it is time to return to the source for a new model, so it is off to Arizona Hatters in Tucson, Arizona for a visit.
Getting Lillie Claire to Cannes …
It is a long way from being a naked, dusty three year old thrown from a car wreck on a lonely Northern Territory outback road to starring on the silver screen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. But Australian actress Lillie Claire needs a hand - and a few bucks - to help her get there.
Birds of the Week: Figbirds in a Figtree
Sometimes birds are hard to find. Sometimes not. Bob Gosford takes two steps from his bed and finds an ornithorium of wonder and beauty.
Bird of the Week: M. Krishnan’s “Thuggery in the Treetops”
A look at the work of Madhaviah Krishnan, an Indian journalist and photographer who for 46 years wrote the "Country Notebook" column for The Statesman of Calcutta that ranks among the finest nature writing out of the sub-continent.
Mucking about with planes … and light
And no ... I'm not going to tell you how I took these pics. That is for me to know and you to find out. Or ask nicely.