Myles Andrews Photography

Had a request from a colleague (yep, I can do requests!) to post this image from my archives of the lovely Matai Bay in NZ's winterless North. Hope you enjoy this, Yvonne😉

Ok, I haven't been posting a lot recently. Lots going on.

So here's a handful of brand new images to get things going again - visited the wonderful Kelly Tarleton's sea life centre last week. Not much light around, so I decided to take some slow-shutter pics - sometimes called Impressionist photography (because the results look similar to an impressionist painting).

See what you think: the first two are loggerhead turtles which the centre is rehabilitating until they can be returned to the wild. The third one is a view of a very rainy & grey Auckland waterfront.

I like how these have turned out, but what do you think?

Sharing this because I find it uplifting - this is Yarndley's Bush, a stand of native kahikatea trees near where we live. One of very few remaining in our agricultural land; the birdsong can be almost deafening, especially in early morning when the mist sometimes hangs around to be obligingly backlit by the sun. Makes me thankful someone had the foresight to protect this treasure!

So here's the thing... I've decided to take a break from the business side of photography for a while - at least to the end of the year. Call it a sabbatical, if you like.

It's not goodbye, though - I'm going to spend the time working on my craft - getting back to the reasons I do this stuff, and freshening up my portfolio. I'll use this page to share some of my work as I go, so feel free to comment and let me know what you think.

To get things going, here's an image of a New Zealand Dotterel, taken in the Coromandel late last year (well before COVID-19!). Huddled against the miniature sandstorm from the strong winds across the beach, these little characters like to do it hard - nests are just a patch of sand, hopefully above the high tide line, but not always. Amazing they are still around, especially when you add in the humans, dogs and other predators they have to share their beaches with. So if you see them on a beach near you, just give them some space - they'll appreciate it.