What do you do if you want to go out and take some nature, or more specifically bird photographs, but your gear isn’t good? — Firstly, let me say that I don’t completely believe in bad gear (within reason) and am a firm believer that even low end gear can be used to excellent effect. In this case, neither my camera or my lens would be considered bad. BUT…. it wouldn’t be considered good for…

Taking photos of fireworks without a tripod and using a semi-auto mode. Oh my. 😲 — Where I am located, around this time of year there is a big event called the Ekka. It’s a festival sort of thing with rides and shows and it’s a great opportunity to rub elbows with hundreds of thousands of other people all squished into the location as well as…

The problem with a story about my kettle is that I don’t have a kettle. — Gareth Willey wrote a piece recently that suggested writing about your kettle as an exercise for becoming a better writer. He suggests that if you can sit down and write about something as mundane as a kettle then you can write about anything. To Become a Better Writer, Tell the Reader About Your Kettle If you can write about a kettle, you can write about anything.medium.com

An old technique for improving health that is desperately needed in this modern world. — A lot of us, if not most of us, spend a large amount of our time at work in an office somewhere. We leave early in the morning for work and come home in the evening after work. …

What should you pack for a hike that will not last more than a day? — Day hikes are one of my favorite outdoor activities to do. It’s a definite mental health break for me as well as being a good exercise, plus there are many health benefits to be had from spending time walking in woodlands (or anywhere really). But what should you take with…

Simplifying this complex topic to help make it easier, plus some tips that helped me. — First off let me preface this with the following. I am not a professional. I am not a doctor or a dietician or anything like that. I am someone who has/is on a weight loss journey. What follows is what helped me during that journey. Weight loss can be a…

Did you know you can clap more than once for a story? I didn’t. — I’ve been using Medium for a while now, but at no point was it clear to me that the “clap” button (which until now I saw as akin to a like button on social media) was able to be used to clap more than once. It’s only thanks to a…

Windows 365, your operating system in the cloud. — What if your computer became a thin client for an operating system in the cloud and you paid a subscription to use it on top of buying the hardware? …

I took my camera for a walk today. I’ve been walking recently through a section of forest where it’s common to see typical Australian wildlife. So today I thought I’d bring the camera along and would for sure return with some photos of, perhaps, a kookaburra or kangaroo. What I…