Count the stars of heaven

Our stories are more than the sand on the shore

My own

Posted on September 26, 2024 by aperture

I gazed too long

Upon you

As perfection

Absorbing

All your weaknesses

As my own

Maroonhood orchid, Pterostylis Pedunculata. Waterworks, Hobart Tasmania

World peace

Posted on September 15, 2024 by aperture

If every economist
Fell in love with 
An ecologist 
Gave birth to
A humanist
What a place
This would be

Waxlip orchid, *Glossodia Major* image by Suzannah Gale, Tasmania

Photographing Nature | Nicely

Posted on April 20, 2024 by aperture

The moral of the story The moral of the story is not to stop going out and enjoying photographing the world. That would be rather boring and also kind of pot calling kettle. What we all need to do is to challenge ourselves a bit more. During a workshop into ethical orchid photography at the […]
Photographing Nature | Nicely

Provenance

Posted on January 22, 2024 by aperture

I wandered aimlessly
From camp
Collecting kindling
For my kin
Surveying burnt out
Trunks of old memories 
Till one day sun 
Illuminated 
A fresh young patch
Tender mouths open
To the sky
Nestled inside
A hallowed stump
I pondered upon
Their origin
Flying in on breeze

Lineage significant 
In world of humans
While evolution of
Plants and animals
Takes centuries
We people are adept
At changing 
So frequently 
Sometimes in just
One moment
From mate to prey

Never erased

Posted on December 30, 2023 by aperture

Tears spilled
Into ink well
Until overflowed
Onto blank page
Of future days
Now never erased

If I'd begged 
Bowed down to power
Where would I be now?
Holding the broken limbs
Of my worn out pride
Barely alive

*Pterostylis decurva,* Summer greenhood, *kunanyi /* Mt Wellington Tasmania

Against all odds

Posted on December 28, 2023 by aperture

*Chiloglottis grammata*? (Tasmanian native ~ small bird-orchid) kunanyi / Mt Wellington

Stand by you

Posted on November 11, 2023 by aperture

Accusations done
Unrequited love lives on
Another year gone