A true wildlife warrior, it's not uncommon to discover images of Karla Pound with a Frilled Neck Lizard on her head or gazing lovingly into the glass-like eyes of a Black-headed Python that she's plucked from somewhere in the Australian bush. After exploring most of Australia's Designated Remote Areas at ground level, why not do it from the air now, too?
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Wing loved machines and the ocean as a kid. Growing up, her family home was on the coast of Hong Kong, right in front of a spot where fire-fighting helicopters would pick up their water. She spent a lot of her time watching helicopters loading their buckets and wondering what it would be like to be in the pilot seat. As a teenager, she decided that she wanted to be a marine scientist and a helicopter pilot. Nobody believed that this was possible, but Wing loves a good challenge. I spoke to her about combining unlikely passions and the importance of preparation and support in facilitating success.
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Thump, thump thump, thump, thump! Fresh-cut, green grass clippings are picked up by the whirling rotors, flicking around the small crowd gathered on the hospital grounds. Little Lena's eyes are wide as she witnesses the German army simulate a winch rescue from above, before lowering the great machine onto the lawns right in front of [...]
Here's another one I wrote for WAE. For those seeking adventure off the mainland, take a flight to Tasmania’s King Island. Swell pumps up from Antarctica and breaks onto the empty stretches of Martha Lavinia Beach. But it’s not just barrelling waves that make the journey worth it.
Writer and accompanying-imagery provider, Bronni Bowen, hitches a lift over the dark seas of the Bass Strait armed only with a Canon EOS M50 and two lenses, to capture a special space to which few from the mainland will venture. She begs to ask the question – “Is it audacious to have one’s camera set to automatic, for the time being, and still refer to oneself as a photographer?”
They say find your niche and roll with it - well, mine's telling stories of rad girl pilots. Bibi Anne's my Dutch treasure, and profiling her for 'A Greater View', my reg column in HeliOps Magazine, was a genuine delight.
Ever since she can remember, Jana Meyer wanted to be a 'Wildbewaarder' - a game ranger, or nature conservationist, in Afrikaans. In my first full-sized feature for HeliOps Magazine (secretly - ever), I look at the events that sparked Jana Meyer's passage into aviation, and what it is like to be one of South Africa's very few female specialised game capture helicopter pilots. An EPIC.
I could hear wind roaring, not too far off, back over my shoulder. It was streaming from the broad northwest, careening up the valleys like venturi, sucking up through vertical channels in the dolomite with such force that it was diverted straight up, past us on the ledge. Grey and grim, the Gullet was turning [...]
