Arjnaturephotography

Name: Arjnaturephotography
Address: Kommetjie, 7975, ZA
Telephone: +27829599238

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Bird, wildlife and landscape photography. On a lifelong learning curve; striving to create images that inspire love and empathy for nature.

21/12/2024

Scrupulous: Red-billed Oxpeckers mixing it with the big boys with and
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19/12/2024

Mother and child with and
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16/12/2024

Heart of darkness… Cape Buffalo; up close. with and
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16/09/2024

Green on gold in blue: Malachite Sunbird on the nectar-filled flower head of a Leucospermum protea, both resplendent with the onset of spring weather on the Cape Peninsula.
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25/08/2024

Pensive: Peregrine Falcon contemplating her world.
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08/07/2024

Pilgrimage 7: Journey to the islands of my birth, to re-visit childhood haunts and feathered friends, reconnect with family, and commune with a star.
Common Eiders are easy to see along the rugged coastline of Northumberland. They have a quietly philosophical air about them as they bob up and down offshore, or forage or rest among the tidal pools at low tide. They tend to aggregate at popular roosting spots, with brightly-white males obvious from afar, and cunningly-cryptic females almost invisible, even from nearby, among the mussels, kelp and dark rocks of the littoral zone. Eiders are reluctant fliers, but strongly capable once up and about.
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07/07/2024

Pilgrimage 6: Journey to the islands of my birth, to re-visit childhood haunts and feathered friends, reconnect with family, and commune with a star.
Arctic, Sandwich and Little Terns nest in significant numbers at the Long Nanny colony that straddles the dunes bordering Beadnell Bay. The signage, cordoning, and 24-hour guarding afforded this important site by the National Trust is hugely impressive, and leaves me thinking how much more we could and should be doing to protect our beach- breeding birds in South Africa.
The site is challenging for photography, so I concentrated on the adults bringing fish into the colony from provisioning flights out in the bay. The striking colours and shapes of the incoming terns, were offset against the softly shaded layers of sky, sea, beach and dune. These are the images that came closest to capturing the shimmering beauty of what I saw…
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29/06/2024

Pilgrimage 5: Journey to the islands of my birth, to re-visit childhood haunts and feathered friends, reconnect with family, and commune with a star.
Northern Fulmars have a distinctly different presence at the Northumberland seabird colonies I visited. Among the throngs of wafting kittiwakes and whirring murres and razorbills, the fulmars cruise alone, describing wide arcs across, above and beyond the colony cliff. Avid students of the sky, they push relentlessly at the physical and metaphysical constraints of their design. Stiff wings slip, hold, or embrace the wind’s fickle potential, heavy bodies lend stability, short, muscular tails provide fine tuning. The whole achieves a hypnotic mastery of flight, belied by the birds’ almost lifeless black eyes, and squawky, limp-legged belligerence at rest. They are in the throng, but dancing to a different beat.
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26/06/2024

Pilgrimage 4: Journey to the islands of my birth, to re-visit childhood haunts and feathered friends, reconnect with family, and commune with a star.
Razorbills are strange looking birds: silky-sleek with beady eyes, striking white facial markings, and a sharp-edged but blunt-ended bill. Design seems weighted in favour of the bird’s capacity to dive and hunt for small fish at depths in excess of 100 m, and at least 10s of km out to sea.
Perhaps 20+ pairs (?) of Razorbill breed on the sea-cliff immediately below Dunstanburgh Castle, presenting visitors to the castle with easy and unusually intimate views of this intriguing species.
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24/06/2024

Pilgrimage 3: Journey to the islands of my birth, to re-visit childhood haunts and feathered friends, reconnect with family, and commune with a star.
Northern Gannets caught in an errant ray of late afternoon sun, as they forage methodically along the Northumberland coast. The ramparts of Dunstanburgh Castle present a pleasingly dramatic backdrop. More than 150,000 gannets nest on Bass Rock, a slab-sided island just offshore of North Berwick, about 80 km to the north-west.
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Kommetjie
7975

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+27829599238

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http://arjnaturephotography.com/

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