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Wild Wing Images Wild Wing Images specialises in bird and nature photography aiming to capture the expression light, darkness, colour, texture and movement.

After spending time in the Grove of Dead Giants on Sunday morning I climbed higher to the top of a granite outcrop. Calo...
27/10/2026

After spending time in the Grove of Dead Giants on Sunday morning I climbed higher to the top of a granite outcrop. Calothamnus shrubs have infiltrated cracks in the rock to form thick clumps of vegetation.  In spring the beautiful red flowers attract Spinebills, Rosellas and several species of Honeyeater.  The rock catches the water and in autumn, winter and spring it is beautiful.  A thick layer of velvet green moss, coral lichen, carnivorous sundews, tiny green ferns and orchids form stunning miniature gardens surrounded by taller reeds and flax plants.  Spotted and Striated Pardalotes live here.  I always see them!  Tiny beautiful birds with intricate markings.  They wait for the sun and the warmth which bring out the insects, so seem to be most active around 9am.  I spent a few hours hiding behind a boulder with my camera trained on a clump of dead grass stalks.  The Pardelotes were flitting in and out, catching tiny bugs and moths. A cluttered environment so difficult to get a clear image but I did get a couple!!  These two are probably the best, love showing a sense of the habitat in my images!

My friend Tracey Squire an amazing photographer and writer, visited me from Sydney in September. We met a few years back...
27/10/2026

My friend Tracey Squire an amazing photographer and writer, visited me from Sydney in September. We met a few years back on the edge of a massive cliff photographing Peregrine Falcons in outer Sydney. It was awesome to show Tracey my little forest shack and a glimpse of the rugged, diverse and very beautiful landscapes in the South West corner of Australia. We had an amazing day with PembertonDiscoveryTours on a custom photography tour and then another amazing day with WOW Wilderness EcoAdventures packrafting down the Frankland River at Walpole. In between we photographed the tiny carnivorous Droseras, Stylidiums, Bladderworts and orchids that grow on my property here in Meerup. The very exciting news is that Tracey has written an awesome article that will published in Better Photography Magazine’s December issue. It is wonderful collaboration with Tracey’s words and my images. We are both very excited and happy at how a random meeting on a cliff and then a few days exploring the wilderness around Northcliffe has led to the creation of a bigger project. ♥️ One of the highlights of Tracey’s visit was photographing the beautiful Cherry Spider Orchids in the sand dunes.

My friend Tracey Squire an amazing photographer and writer, visited me all the way from Sydney in September. We met a fe...
27/10/2026

My friend Tracey Squire an amazing photographer and writer, visited me all the way from Sydney in September. We met a few years ago on the top of a massive cliff photographing Peregrine Falcons in outer Sydney. It was awesome to catch up and and show Tracey a tiny glimpse of the incredible landscapes in the South West corner of Australia. We had an amazing day with PembertonDiscoveryTours on a custom photography tour and then another amazing day with WOW Wilderness EcoAdventures packrafting down the Frankland River at Walpole. In between we photographed the tiny carnivorous Droseras, Stylidiums, Bladderworts and orchids that grow on my property here in Meerup. The very exciting news is that Tracey has written an awesome article that will published in Better Photography Magazine’s December issue. It is wonderful collaboration with Tracey’s words and my images. We are both very excited and happy at how a random meeting on a cliff and then a few days exploring the wilderness led to the creation of a bigger project. ♥️ One of the highlights of Tracey’s visit was photographing the beautiful Cherry Spider Orchids in the sand dunes.

It was a day of extraordinarily beautiful hybrids that I will never forget. Last year I was in the Stirling Ranges. We h...
27/10/2026

It was a day of extraordinarily beautiful hybrids that I will never forget. Last year I was in the Stirling Ranges. We had seen a double header Shy Spider Orchid in bud about to open so we went back early the next morning full of expectation. A Shy Spider orchid is a named hybrid between Caladenia flava (Cowslip) and Caladenia longicauda (White Spider). It is a beautiful 1950’s lemon colour and an unusual shape. We arrived at the spot and the flowers had been chomped probably in what felt like a pre-emptive attack only minutes before we arrived. This year I was lucky enough to find a Shy Spider Orchid myself and here it is with a spectacular blowfly doing some pollination work. In the same spot I also saw another stunning hybrid between a Pink Fairy and a Cowslip. Some days are magical and this was one. A highlight of 2026!

An image from a recent day with PembertonDiscoveryTours on my 2026 Melissa Zappelli Photography and Storytelling Camp. W...
26/10/2026

An image from a recent day with PembertonDiscoveryTours on my 2026 Melissa Zappelli Photography and Storytelling Camp. We saw this beautiful little Hobby sitting on the perfect branch at the edge of the Yeagarup Dune system. Unfortunately when we spotted him we had begun our descent down the final dune a steep descent and we could not back up, the only way was down……… I got a few shots through the window before he flew. There always seems to be interesting birds at the edge of the dunes. Red Tailed Black Cockatoos are often in the area and the usual little forest birds. I haven’t seen a Hobby for ages so was very happy to catch this little guy on his high perch overlooking the big sand sea.

My 2027 Wild Wing Images Woman’s Photography and Storytelling Camp starts today so it seems fitting to post images of th...
16/10/2026

My 2027 Wild Wing Images Woman’s Photography and Storytelling Camp starts today so it seems fitting to post images of these stunning Pink Spider orchids, Caladenia harringtoniae. They are a threatened species so very very precious. They are also named after a wonderful orchid enthusiast, Alison Harrington. Photographing these beauties was a photographic highlight for me. A magical day in the wilderness. There was just something about them. The rich pinks and velvety magenta, the curves and the twists and the delicate, trailing and entangled petals. It came out in my compositions, the lines and the shapes and tiny threads of spider silk. Something just very feminine about them, a sense of freedom and expression. Hard to put into words but for me they capture that feeling of wildness, I get when I am alone in the forest, when the guards of life fall away and I am simply able to be myself. These beautiful flowers with their gorgeous trailing petals have given me a picture of the feeling and for that I am very grateful. Photography and storytelling has become an integral part of my life, it has helped enormously in the dark times but also in the good times. To find myself and also the courage to express who I am. 💗

A Red-capped Robin overlooking the flowers! Shooting through a gap in a prickly bush rich on sunset! Actually I think t...
14/10/2026

A Red-capped Robin overlooking the flowers! Shooting through a gap in a prickly bush rich on sunset! Actually I think this image was captured just after the sun disappeared below the horizon. One of our last camps somewhere between Sandstone and Diemals. The pink everlastings formed a thick carpet of colour, in great swathes that followed the lower lying washes and sandy soil. A sense of abundance, insects, juicy caterpillars, spider webs and happy fat little Red Capped Robins. There seemed to be a lot in this particular area, two males and several females along with a group of tiny Thornbills. Hunting in the last light of day, a time when the insects are particularly active and perhaps easier to see as the lower angle of light catches the silvery wings. I was hoping this little fella would drop down into the carpet of flowers. He did a few times but only for very brief moments to catch a bug. This seemed to be his favourite perch. A bit cluttered as an image, but I kind of like it because this is how I saw him and it gives a sense of the environment!! -cappedrobin

My favourite images are ones that show relationships. The intersection of two or more lives in a tiny moment of time and...
13/10/2026

My favourite images are ones that show relationships. The intersection of two or more lives in a tiny moment of time and space. It wasn’t how I started my dance with nature photography. In the beginning I was fixated on finding and photographing particular subjects. Slowly that has changed. These days my work centres much more around photographing relationships, habitat and change. Drawing in a sense of time and the landscape. That is how life is? Complex webs, unique, intricate relationships, many that we barely understand. An image can only ever capture a tiny sliver of what is always a much larger story. That is where words come in, and also curiosity? To understand what is actually happening. Pollination is an awesome example. Here is the south west corner there are plants and relationships that exist no where else on earth. A specific insect that pollinates a specific flower. Two life forms that have been evolutionary intertwined for a very long time. In this case a Flying Duck orchid (Paracaleana nigrita) and a Thynnid wasp. Many of the relationships are ancient. Understanding and learning about my subjects always brings a sense of how desperately precious and fragile this all is. It also tells me that in conservation the focus needs to be on protecting relationships, and for that to happen it is habitat that holds the space. I am talking about some of these incredible relationships among other things at the Northcliffe Bee Festival. Talk is at 10am at the Northcliffe Visitors Centre.

In my swag amidst a landscape of towering granites and thick vegetation. I woke to thick fog. In photography mist and fo...
09/10/2026

In my swag amidst a landscape of towering granites and thick vegetation. I woke to thick fog. In photography mist and fog are always friends! I grabbed the camera and headed toward the granites. Impossible to see. I knew the distance and direction but it took longer than I thought and I began to doubt myself. What I could see were the stunning silhouettes of Kingia trees emerging from the gloom like dancing woman or huddled families. The fog thickened. The granites were huge and I knew I must be close but all I could see was a sea of swirling white. Awe and anxiety intertwined. Something deeply mythical about fog always brings me to my knees and opens my heart. Tears for Dad were falling without me even realising. I felt a shift in temperature and the faintest contrast emerged high above me. I realised I was right at the base the massive boulders in the presence of an ancient reclining Kingia with stunning curves. It was the right place to be. I sensed age and wisdom and for quite a while sat very still and took it all in, my eye drawn to lines, subtle contrasts and color barely there, the rich earthy smell of soil and vegetation, wet clothes, thirsty, grateful, humbled. I wanted to capture the archaic sense of place, the beauty, the emotion, the mark on my soul. It was impossible but nonetheless I took some images of my timeworn companion. Later a knowledgeable friend told me that the tree was at least 400 years old. The encounter set the scene for the rest of the trip where I photographed these incredible trees in full flower after a recent fire and learnt more about their amazing biology. I have a lot of images and will write a longer more scientific article but for the moment here is my beautiful friend photographed from both sides!!

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