Bliss
Milford Sound, NZ
Such an amazing location and I got lucky with the light and atmosphere.
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I was also pleased to stumble across a location where a fallen log was crossing a small creek - the sort of place where wildlife will be funnelled-in to take advantage of the natural bridge across the water-barrier.
I've set-up a trail-camera to test my hypothesis that a range of wildlife will use the log as a bridge. If it proves fruitful, it will be the next location for my camera-trap.
You can see the log and the trail-camera here.
After literally months of technical glitches and uncooperative wildlife, I have finally landed a not-too-awful shot of an eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) on the camera-trap, captured here in the hollow inside an old burnt-out gum tree - a difficult setting to light.
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From Alexandra Petri of The Atlantic:
‘To anyone who says, “I don’t think a former reality-TV star should be in charge of NASA,” I say: Why does NASA deserve any better than the rest of the country?’
The joys of stock photography - two ads, side-by-side on my webpage. I wonder if this guy’s wives know about each other.
If not, I hope they aren’t being served ads for health insurance.
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 has just released its shortlist of remarkable images for this year’s competition. See them now:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/zwo-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2025/
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"Where do you see yourself in three years?"
"3 years? By that time I'll be dropping poisonous scorpions into rich people's climate change bunker air vents."
Now I discover that if you pull-up a map of Guishan Island, the name that appears at the head is labelled as 龜首 / “guishou”, using an older term for head that doesn’t have the same connotations as the name that, as far we know, has always been used for that location.
I wonder if in fifty years anyone will ever remember that part of the island used to be prominently called “dickhead”, or if the name will be lost in the mists of time alongside “chicken cages” and “hitting dogs”.
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