Dean Bradshaw photojournalism

ANABAT – Searching for bats

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling

Morgan sets up the ANABAT, an ingenious little device which translates and records the usually inaudible high frequency echolocating calls of bats to an audible signal – so that we can then have the bat species present in an area (in this case the Pilbara region of WA) identified based on their unique call signatures.

See more of an explanation behind the process after the jump…

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Tags: biology, creative lighting, photojournalism

Read more | Comments (1) | September 28th, 2008

Cycle of Life: A photo essay

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Wildlife Photography

A Green Turtle lays her eggs, against the glow of two oil rigs on the horizon.

Earlier this year, I spent two weeks traversing the Pilbara region of Western Australia, as a personal project to document the region and also to relax at the same time. Another of the primary reasons for the trip was to spend some time around Exmouth and nearby Cape Range National Park, to document the hatching of turtles along the coastline, and if I was lucky, the laying of eggs by the enormous adult turtles. We spent about three nights camping in the national park, each evening going out looking for wildlife on the roads and then pulling into some of the many beaches along the Cape searching for nesting Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas).

A turtle clambers ashore to lay her eggs at sunset

Find out more and see what eats baby turtles after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: field, photo essay, photojournalism, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography

Read more | Comments (1) | August 28th, 2008

Yanchep Adventures: Slideshow

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Multimedia, Photojournalism & Story Telling

I’ve been playing with media presentations lately. Here’s a little slideshow I concocted showing our adventures at Yanchep. What I love about doing this is that when you deal with your images in this fashion, you find storylines in your work where you thought there were none.

If you think your connection can handle it, try the “full screen” option for the best experience!

Enjoy!

Tags: Multimedia, photojournalism, slideshow, surfing

Read more | Comments (6) | July 10th, 2008

Bodyboarding Photos: Yanchep

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under People Photography

Surf photography.

Here in Australia, we’re bombarded with it since we’re little grommets in high school, images of zinc-covered, blonde-haired men riding waves by standing on pieces of fibreglass or lying on bits of high-tech foam – plaster the magazine racks.

I had always wanted to try my hand at such imagery, and today I got a shot at It. I joined a few young guys, almost past their prime years of ‘grommet-hood’ (a technical term for young, frequently annoying young surfers).

We headed out early, really early, considering the temperature in Perth at the moment and the fact that the sun is rising as late as 7am. We arrived in the sleepy town of Yanchep (although I’d probably call Yanchep a suburb at this stage of Perth’s incredible urban sprawl!) just before sunrise, in the gloomy hours when flash staves off the blurry images that would result otherwise.

These first few images where shot at about F4, ISO 400, 1/5 second – so you know it was dark!

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The main reason i wanted to head out with the boys this morning was to try out my newly purchased EWA-marine underwater housing. I had bought it a few months ago, but had never found a chance to use it. I’ll try and write up a more in depth review of it later on – but suffice to say, the thing is cumbersome. Other than that, the thing stood up really really well against the frequent swirling currents i found myself in as i was dumped again – and again. Each time i emerged from the turbulent waves where i was introduced to the sandy bottom, I was stunned to see my camera dry and protected – It’s a weird feeling when you’re cold, soaking wet and at the mercy of the ocean.

I really have a newfound respect for surf photographers, this stuff is tough – and a workout to boot!

Tags: bodyboarding, people photography, photojournalism, surfing

Read more | Comments (0) | July 10th, 2008

Muay Thai Photos

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography

Recently i spent about 6 weeks in Thailand, of which about 2 weeks were spent documenting the Thai Boxing scene in Thailand’s second largest city, Chiang Mai. Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.

The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. There is one major difference however, and that is that like Western boxing, Thai boxing is viewed as a ‘poor man’s sport’, whereby the Thai bourgeois shuns the seemingly violent and archaic brutality of the sport.

Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week and after seeing the way these guys work, how they push their bodies to the limit, the tuly must be some of the most athletic people on the planet!

Rainbows and sweat