News update

05.04.2010

Hello All,

Another New Zealand summer is coming to a close and Nexus (das Boot) is impatiently tugging on it’s mooring lines. Last years passage to Raoul and Tonga, even though not blessed with fair winds, was a success in two ways. Firstly it resulted in the image that won me the NZ Geographic Wildlife Photographer of the year title:

And secondly it proved that the good ship Nexus has morphed from a hybrid into a zero carbon mode of transport. In other words, the bigger sails and the wind-vane worked well. This is just as well, because I have experienced another sizable consciousness shift towards serious environmentalism. Unfortunately Sea Shepherd could not come up with a use for Nexus at this time after repeatedly offering it to them. So I will just have to sail around and write my own exposés to shake you all out of your in-activist states. I guess it might help to win a few comps to keep the profile up and make people listen a little.

The Tonga stay was less successful inasmuch as it did not produce any great whale imagery and kind of put the last nail in the coffin of the idea that whale-watching-swimming is eco friendly. It is harassment of animals for profit. There is only one eco tourism and that is staying at home. Fortunately my home is a floating one, that can be moved from place to place. I will shift my home to Raul again soon. The marine reserve there must be one of the best places in the world to photograph sharks which is exactly what I intend to do and write about. As the stock picture industry is becoming less feasible every year, I shall go back to my roots and write.

From Raoul it’s up to Fiji once again, maybe on to Vanuatu …

Enough about me, I suggest you spend a bit of time now and look at:

www.seashepherd.org / www.greenpeace.org.nz / www.wspa.org / www.wwf.org.nz