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Benjamin Alldridge is an award-winning nature photographer specialising in documenting rare and unseen phenonema in the living world. Benjamin B.

Alldridge is an occasional Pulitzer winner with a D.Sc., the owner of a private jet and a Caribbean island, and an award-winning space and nature photographer. Several of these facts are lies. Aside from prone to writing in the third person for some inexplicable reason, I am:

§ originally from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, but now reside in Launceston, Tasmania (lutruwita), Australia
§ a former marine biologist
§ a current software engineer
§ an amateur space weather forecaster
§ a marginally less amateur space weather photographer
§ likely to drive 750km in a single sitting just because 'the sky was clear'
… or because ‘it wasn’t’
§ something of a fool
§ a part-time music journalist
§ occasionally found taking many photos of people
§ … and their butts
§ way too fond of sarcasm
§ even more fond of interesting vanity basins

So, pretty normal one might say.

12/10/2026

Well then! What a weekend. As you may recall, I found out a few months ago about being a Nominee for the Siena Creative Photo Awards, held annually in Italy. I’m absolutely floored to say that on Saturday, my image “I C E P O P” was named as being Highly Commended in the Nature & Landscape category.

Being my second time entering the Sienas, it feels a bit surreal - especially seeing the calibre of the work from some of the best photographers on the planet also featured. As an artisan you spend years and work studiously to get invited into rooms like these ones, but it’s always an incredible shock when you actually do.

I wasn’t able to be in Siena in person, but nonetheless I was blessed to watch it from afar with my best friend, and had several other friends that were Nominees make sure I didn’t miss out.

It’s fired my resolve to finally take my craft more seriously (is that possible…?), and finally actually teach people how to do this. I’m working out a few of the finer details, but watch this space.

This one feels pretty good, I gotta tell ya.

27/05/2026

I am incredibly humbled. I found out this morning that I am a Nominee for the Siena Awards Creative Photography Awards, and have been invited to attend the ceremony in Italy.

The Siena Awards series are amongst the most prestigious in fine art and creative photography, seeing some of the most skilled artisans on earth represented amongst its alumni. To count myself - a disabled, self-taught amateur - amongst them is an absolute shock and a supreme privilege.

Getting to share the experiences I have on such a grand stage is an exciting prospect - doing it in a beautiful location is just a bonus!

Congratulations to all of the other Nominees, there is some phenomenal portfolios I’ve already discovered. See you all in Italy! 🇮🇹

06/02/2026

“Adam Raised a Cain”, East Coast Tasmania, 2025

𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥
𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦
𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳
𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥

I’ve documented a lot of aurorae now, but only a handful have felt like the world was ending…

24/01/2026

“Chroma”, Tasmania, 2026

How’d you go? Did you see her? Getting to bask under chromatic ribbons for hours never tires for me.
anz α1, .star 9mm

23/01/2026

The G4 storm on January 20 was something else hey? It was scraping the northern horizon on the east coast for most of the night.

13/01/2026

“Echo”, Tasmania, 2026

Righto, I guess I should probably consider starting 2026. May as well do it right.

Richea scoparia, one of the botanical group broadly referred to as ‘candle heaths’ endemic to Tasmania, flower for a very brief window, and not necessarily annually — but when they do flower, they explode into fields of cream, white, orange, and red, sitting atop complexes of sharp and robust layers of the plant’s body. Some areas they also share habitat with another ancient Tasmanian endemic, the Pencil pine (Athrotaxis cupressoides).

Oh yeah, sometimes there’s an aurora at sunrise, including an incredibly rare and only recently identified subauroral form too. Nbd. There was a bright moon to the northeast which added a beautiful atmosphere to the scene.
anz a7 III, .star 9mm f/5.6

05/12/2025

It’d probably taste a bit funky, but platypuses could inarguably provide the majority of ingredients necessary for a satisfactory custard.

SONY ILCE-1, SEL135F18GM

03/12/2025

Some years ago with in Tasmania’s southwest. The area was ravaged by bushfires in 2019, something we have documented the recovery of many times. This day was a snowy day early season, draping a charred hardscape in white and grey. This one small emerging sign of recovery fully captured me, the vibrant green emerging from charred bones.

SONY ILCE-7M3, SEL100F28GM .anz

03/12/2025

“Echo”, Tasmania, 2025

A few months ago, I was tracking the weather to predict the development of hoar frost during the transition into sunrise. One morning presented the perfect conditions: cloudless skies, calm air, and some of the rarest trees on earth (Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata). The stillness of these ancient relics is overwhelming.

SONY ILCE-1, SEL24105F4G

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