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PWI Photography, Perth (2026)

18/10/2026

Good Evening and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

Fabulous weekend., Weather held out beautifully with all of the rain hammering down in the early hours and leaving the days not wet.
Today the Minister for War & Finances and I headed off down the coast for a fantastic outing that peaked with an amazing lunch in Busso! So much has changed down there now in the 40 years I have been driving down there. Its no longer a tiny coastal town!

Yesterday I spent the first half of the day in the Baldivis Children's Forest looking to find trapdoor spider holes, namely black wishbone ones, but that came up a big fat goose egg. They are in there, just need to find them! Good thing is I found more ground to explore in there that gave me a bit of a tingle. It's not in the main walkways, has been fenced off for a few years, looks all natural with little disturbacnce and I think it may yield some good things. Did find other things though including Maratus pavonis, the common peacock spider, which made people happy. As it should, its a peacock spider! And one of the other things is tonight's pic.

One of the coordinators in the group saw these tiny little red somethings on a grass seed. Turns out it was a bunch of baby shield bugs hatching out of their cool looking egg casings. I took a little 3x image stack and put this together. If they are bigger than 1.5 - 2mm I would be totally surprised. They are tiny!

That is me for this week. Back Wednesday with a Mid-Week Post. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

16/10/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend and a Friday Night Post!

Been a busy week with lots of training and more preparation for this new software system that's due to come online early November across the whole business. Not a little business either, so the imapct will be big as we all learn the new system. Staying ahead of the blackout and go live so we have several weeks up our sleeves to use the new system and really learn it has been, and continues to be, the challenge over the next fortnight.

Tonight's pics are a continuation of the Setecoris species or Drosera bugs that live in the sticky sundews. One of their predators that can seen to find its way around the sticky traps are these Australomisidea species of crab spiders. This gives a good view of what I found and also shows the spider had been there for a while hunting in that spot. In both pics, much sharper in the second one, you can see in the bottom left the carcasses of the spider's previous dinners in the sundew being absorbed by the plant. It is a cut throat world out there and it was good to be able to capture it but also humbling to acknoweldge that one thing needs to be food for another in nature!

That is me for now. I am off to the Baldivis Children's Forest tomorrow to lead a trapdoor spider burrow hunt. Looking to see if we can locate a few burrows to go back and knock on the door see if anyone is home on a night session and document more things in the forest with the cooridnators. Looking forward to a couple of hours in the bush to wind down the week!
Enjoy your weekend, see you Sunday when I will share more, and as always, Happy Snapping! :-)

14/10/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Mid Week Post!

Busy week of still training and learning a new system at work. Pushing through a 6 week build of scheduling to stay ahead of the tsunami that is coming during blackout as we cutover, and my team and I are smashing it! So good to have a great team working together and with nonstop chatter, and laughter, throughout each day. So, thank you to you all for making it fun!

Today's post is a tiny little Setecoris bug, adult though, that was why I was looking in the Drosera, sticky sundew the other week. This one I found before finding the crab spider feasting on one. I have written about these before on here but they live in a symbotic relationship with the plant. They feed on and remove the detritus from the plant's modified, sticky, carnivourous leaves and then p**p nitrogen into them as well. They remain safe amongst the sundews, except when a very savvy crab spider is around, and life is good for them all.
This is a 5x image stacked shot and was taken using the diffuser umbrella to kill the sunlight and allow me to control the light.

That is me today. Back Friday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

11/10/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

Been pretty busy over the weekend doing things with the Minister for War & Finances. Gardening as well and a little lawn mowing along with a night out for dinner too. Been a decent weekend.

Posting some pics back from the other week at the Baldivis Children's Forest event where the last things I saw were these 2 moths making more moths. Couldn't resist and I did say thank you and sorry to them! LOL
Both pics are stacked images taken hand held, manually focused and manually bracketed. Then processed, layered and stacked in PS.
First image is made up of 12 shots and second is made up of 7 shots to create their final images.

Olympus EM1Mk3 body, M.Zuiko f3.5 2:1 90mm macro lens, Godox V1 flash with Godox spreader dome and Cygnustech diffuser

1/200 - f9 - iso 200 - manually set flash with an output of 1/64 + 0.2

Hope you like

That is me for this week. Back again midweek, if my brain isn't fried, with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

09/10/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend and a Friday Night Post!

Been a week of brain draining as we learn the new software package at work. One week down and 3 more to go. I have had NO desire to look at a screen or sit at a computer all week hence the lack of posts.

Tonight though, I am here to share a little something something from the other week. I was out with the Baldivis Children's Forest group again for an adult evening in the reserve. A lovely evening of weather and finally got to see the larger huntsman come out. I found a little orb weaver that was moulting and decided to get a few shots of it. It was a little bit "spray and pray" to get a shot as it was moving in the wind a fair bit. But it paid off with this final shot.
When spiders get to the point of being too big for their skin, they moult out of it into a new one. How good woudl that be LOL!
Hope you like!

That is me for now. Back Sunday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

04/10/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post.

It's been absolutely flat out in my world and no signs of slowing up just yet either. Work is impacting heavily with shutdowns and training doing my head in. Lots of illness through the team too with some horrible respiratory thing droppingthem like flies. I am doing my best to dodge that one!

Gorgeous weather here over the weekend and I managed to get out for an hour or 2 in a local reserve. Not much aroudn atm and this is a normal trend for this time of year. I decided to focus back ont he Drosera plants, sticky sundews, and looking for the Setecoris species or Drosera bugs. These guys move freely through the modified, sticky trap leaves of the plants and help by cleaning away the detritus of decayed insects and p**ping nitrogen into the plant. Today I found a few and then I saw this........
A little crab spider, Thomisidae, possibly Australomisidea species, was hunting the bugs and had just caught one. Was stoked to find it and snapped of a bunch of shots. This a bit of a dirty 8 image stack of it.
Hope you like. I have more to go through yet!

That is me for today. I will be back mid week with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping and have a great rest of your Sunday. and Happy Snapping! :-)

Go the Roosters!!

25/09/2026

TGIF! Welcome to the Weekend, a Friday Post and a Long Weekend in WA!

Great week done and dusted. Illness taking out a lot of people at work with this late flu that s hit but most people doing the right thing and staying home. Kings Birthday long weekend here so its going to be one of relaxing, out to some local markets and some walks in the bush reserves!

Sunday saw me take off for a brief period down at my local beach looking for a coupel of speices. I posted speculifer on Wednesday and tonight its Maratus speciosus. Whilst I didn't get a dance shot, I was using the time to really tune in my Cygnustech diffuser and utilise my white diffusion umbrella for the full sun, white beach sand location. The combination was better than hoped for. The second pic is straight off of the card with absolutely nothing done to it by me. This gives a really good idea of the light I am getting from my set up, my settings and my manually set flash output.
Em1Mk3 body - f3.5 M.Zuiko 90mm 2:1 lens - 1/200 - f9 - iso 200 - Godox V1 flash set to 14mm wide angle with the Godox spreader dome and Cygnustech diffuser with an output of 1/64. A white studio umbrella was placed over the scene to soften the sunlight.
4x image stack taken fully manually for the portrait shot and straight out off the card jpeg single image.

That is me for now. Have a great weekend and see you Sunday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

23/09/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Mid-Week Post!

Busy week yet again and plenty going on in my home! Had a busy day Sunday making my annual cumquat marmalade that my little citrus tree decided to give me a bumper crop for. It took me over 2.5 hours preparing the little buggers ready to cook. Sunday was marmalade day and today we popped the first jar. Deeeee-liscious!

Once that was done I headed down to the local beach access track and went looking for some old friends. Spider friends that is and found both Maratus speculifer and Maratus speciosus. Tonight's pic is a little male speculifer, or black mirror peacock spider. These are insanely difficult to get to sit still, and I was wrangling him with one hand, shooting with the other and maneuvering my diffusion umbrella in between. Well worth the effort and patience to finally get him almost looking at the lens and firing off a series of a dozen shots to create this final image.
12x image stacked shot - manually focused and bracketed
Olympus Em1Mk2 body with the M.Zuiko f3.5, 2:1 lens
1/200 - f9 - iso 200 - V1 Godox flash manually set at 1/64 output at 14mm setting, with the Godox spreader dome and Cygnustech diffusion system.
Processed, layered and stack in PS to create the final image.
Hope you like!

That is me for now. Back Friday with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

20/09/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post.

Was a busy week last week and ended with me volunteering on Friday night for an adult session, night stalk, in the Baldivis Children's Forest. Was good to be out in the dark and even the rain held off, mostly! That was my first one and I was finding my way working in a team. I am usually leading or working between groups of shooters helping out, so it was a change and I will adapt. Weather had held a lot of things off, but we still saw a couple of really cool things which is a segue into tonight's pic.

I came across a little grass blue butterfly that was sleeping in the rain on one of the daisy flower stalks. Shared it with some others and then hurriedly fired a few shots off. Would love to have spent a little more time with this one but happy I got to show people things.

That is me tonight. I have been down the beach dunes this afternoon, so I have pics to share from that too. So, until next time, Happy Snapping! :-)

13/09/2026

Good Afternoon and Welcome to a Sunday Post!

Was abusy busy week last week hence no posting, and the weekend was busy too. I presented a Macro Workshopp at the Photowest 2026 event hosted by the GEM Photography group in the Helena Valley yesterday afternoon. It was a brilliant location, with excellent ammenities and a fantastic group of about 20 people that sat through the session. We then had a hands on session with some incredible captive subjects from Louise and her daughter from Butterflies Minibeasts and more to practice what we learnt in the talk. Thank you to ALL involved with a big thanks to Stephen and Stuart from the GEM Camera club, Louise and her daughter for the incredible array of subjects and ALL of the participants yesterday. I really enjoyed it immensely. If you are reading this, please feel free to reach out if you have further questions via messenger. I will pass on the promised info tonight via email to the GEM president to email out to you all.

A great day had today too with lots of things happening. I decided this afternoon when we got home to play in the garden and mow lawns (weeds mostly!) And I kinda found a peacock spider on the fence! Camera was at hand, a few shots, a bit of watching him and back to the work. This is the common peacock Maratus pavonis and I have an annual colony in my gardens here at home. This little guy was working his way along the fence looking to attract a female, that I couldn't find for looking. I will harass these guys later in the year and grab a few late season dance shots hopefully. They will be down in the lawn area by then. Pretty healthy population to be honest.
Single shot, 1/200 - f9 - iso 200 - flash manual set at 1/64 + 0.4 and diffused with a Cygnustech diffusion system

That is me for tonight. Back Mid - Week with more to share. Until then, Happy Snapping! :-)

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