Cook’s View

Sure there's a few more houses but you have to think this view hasn't changed a hell of a lot in the last couple of hundred years. The Endeavour River in Cooktown provided a safe haven for Captain Cook and his crewmen in June of 1770. Having just extricated themselves from a prickly situation on...

Living life the traditional way

A few years ago now I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a few days up on Cape York with Cathy Freeman, the world-famous aboriginal runner. I was the stills photographer on a TV shoot where she would visit remote aboriginal communities and learn about the local culture. Our trip was to the remote western...

The original artists

Long before Captain Cook ever stumbled across these shores aboriginal people had 40,000 year connection to this vast continent. Over that time, as with indigenous cultures all over the world, they developed their own creation stories and art forms. Aboriginal art is increasingly popular around the world and even artists from such out of the...

The world from above

Getting up above the world is a great way to get a whole new perspective on a landscape. You can put things in a perspective not possible from the ground, and use a longer lens to isolate parts of the environment to create abstracts from nature. If you haven't gone the drone route however (and...

I think I can, I think I can

In an increasingly polluted world some of the creatures on the front line of danger are these guys - turtles. They really are survivors against the odds. On Cape York not only are the hatchlings in danger of being eaten by feral dogs, wild pigs, sea birds, fish and crocodiles, they then have to contend...