Paul Harcourt Davies Takes the Gold in International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition
Big congrats to MYN contributor Paul Harcourt Davies who has won the Royal Photographic Society Gold Award for Best Portfolio in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition for several of his MYN images. He will be receiving a RPS Gold Medal and £2000 in winnings for his this honor. Well-done Paul!
MYN Photographers Spreading the Word in a “Big Way”
Meet Your Neighbours photographers have been sharing their work all over the world and this past weekend two events of special note took place: In Jacksonville, Florida MYN co-founder Clay Bolt and contributors Paul Marcellini, Nate Dappen and Krista Schlyer presented during a 2-hour at the North American Nature Photography Association’s annual Summit. Across the Atlantic, Dutch contributor Joris van Alphen presented in Amsterdam during PIXperience. In fact, Joris’ presentation featured the largest MYN panel to date at nearly 200′ [...]
Field studio birds – a start.
It’s been a slow start, but at last I’m making a little headway with photographing small birds in the field studio in our garden. Most species have shown an extraordinary reluctance to sit on the perches I provide – preferring instead to feed on the ground. This normally creates a lot of discomfort so instead I relocated a section of turf 18 inches above the ground on a crate, allowing me to shoot “at ground level” from my plastic hide. [...]
Meet My Neighbours
Earlier this year I joined the Meet Your Neighbours (MYN) photography project and I’ve taken many MYN style images since then. But one of the features of the project that first attracted me to it was Niall Benvie’s use of composite panels to show a selection of the biodiversity in a particular region or location. Free from background distractions, these composites perfectly illustrate the variety of species in that region. I also like the way they show the sheer [...]
Clothesline Neighbours
Sometimes our backyard neighbours are be a bit more neighbourly than wanted. About a month ago my wife Bronwyn was collecting the washing from the line when she noticed a Shield bug (Poecilometis sp) on her clean slacks. Fortunately these days her first reaction to something with six legs is to call me rather than to squash it. Closer inspection showed it had also deposited a neatly arranged array of green eggs. Setting up the field studio I photographed the [...]
Europarc Conference 2012 Report by Niall Benvie
After two days of participation in the annual Europarc Conference, this year in Genk, Belgium, I am convinced more than ever that the nature photography community needs to get itself into gear and start talking to people outside its own ranks if it has any hope of achieving anything. Europarc brings together many of the most influential people in nature conservation practice and policy in Europe (including the DG, Environment) not only to listen to keynotes but also, through a [...]
Nat’Images Features Meet Your Neighbours
French wildlife magazine Nat’Images is featuring MYN in their October / November 2012 issue. Contributor Denis Palanque conducted interviews with co-founders Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt and wrote the six-page article, which gives an excellent overview of the project’s achievements and goals for the future. To learn more visit the publication’s website here!
Free Imperial Moth Wallpaper for your Desktop
We’re so pleased to announce that The Nature Conservancy is featuring a Meet Your Neighbours image as their “Photo of the Month” for October. Clay Bolt‘s image of an Imperial Moth caterpillar on autumn leaves will be the perfect thing to lead you in the season (if you happen to be in the Northern Hemisphere, that is). You can download the image for your computer’s desktop by going here. While you’re there, take a moment to read Clay’s essay and [...]
Beautiful Illustration of the Ibiza Wall Lizard’s Diversity
Many thanks to Neil Losin and Nate Dappen of Day’s Edge Productions for including MYN in their work on the Ibiza Wall Lizard in the Spanish Mediterranean! Neil has written an excellent post on National Geographic‘s Explorers Journal detailing how the technique was used to showcase the amazing diversity within this species on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera. You can read the article by going here. As you can see, there is a tremendous amount of variety in color [...]
Borneo Awaits, Joris van Alphen
Meet Your Neighbours contributor Joris van Alphen has just embarked on an incredible expedition to document the wildlife found on Borneo’s mysterious Mt. Kinabalu. Van Alphen, who calls the Netherlands home, is on assignment with National Geographic Netherlands/Belgium to cover the historic expedition, which is primarily comprised of scientists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Sabah Parks. The main mission of the expedition will be to answer the question of whether or not Borneo is a “Hotbed or Storehouse of [...]