Freelance photographer supporting animal welfare and conservation
Bailey turned 2 this month. Despite costing a fortune in operations for eyes, knees and abscesses, prescription food and medicine to control allergies, she is the love of my life. The current heat wave in my home town is making nights really uncomfortable and recently I only got three hours sleep one night. I should have [...]
Perth Bali Nights 21st July 2012 Fremantle Function Centre Tickets will be available in MAY Perth has a wonderful affinity with Bali and thousands of us travel there every year. During our holidays it’s hard to ignore the plight of Bali’s street dogs and many of us wish there was something we could do. People [...]
As a tourist it’s easy to think that the Balinese don’t care about their dogs. Truthfully they have more important things to care about like putting food on the table and making enough money to put their kids through school. But sometimes you get the opportunity to see a real relationship between a Balinese and [...]
One of the highlights of this trip to Bali was to spend time with BAWA’s spay/neuter team in Singapadu in the Gianyar Regency. Singapadu seems like a middle class area relatively untouched by tourism and provided me with one of the most authentic Balinese experiences I’ve ever had. My driver drops me in the middle [...]
My Dad used to work the trawlers in the north-west of WA and also in Queensland so I spent a large part of my childhood on boats and jetties. Harbours are always full of boats bumping against tyres, the smell of diesel and fish, oil slicks on the water, barnacles on pylons and a jumble [...]
A visit to Bali Animal Welfare Association provides some insight into Bali life through the world of their street dogs. These dogs were all rescued and treated at the BAWA clinic in Ubud, with the aim to get them healthy and into forever homes. Rat Poison Dog A happy little dog greets me [...]
I’ve been meeting some really amazing people and some really cool dogs while researching greyhound adoptions. Some of those amazing people run Greyhound Adoptions WA who have regular stalls in the Rockingham area, raising awareness of the ex racing greyhounds that need to be adopted or put down. They are supported by a network of [...]
Carrie Underwood sings a song I really like because of one particular line: “The more boys I meet the more I love my dog”. The most memorable thing about all the following dogs was how much each of them were loved by their owners. And all profits from these photoshoots were donated to the Bali [...]
Balinese hawkers sell bright and colourful kites to the tourists all year round, some of them are quite complex and all of them small enough and light enough to pack into your suitcase. Photographically you can have a lot of fun taking pictures of them! Apparently there is a kite festival [...]
This trip to Bali in 2009 to photograph the street dogs led to a fundraising exhibition, the founding of www.pavva.org.au and inspired continued coverage of animal conservation issues.