Welcome

Photography

“The Art” – Photography, especially environmental photography, is my distraction. For landscapes, I enjoy both the sweeping views and the immediate.

To me an interesting photograph is one that stops a passing glance and holds the attention. It may be an everyday scene but captured differently, in terms of technique, perspective or quality of light, and “being there”.

In addition to photographing my local environment (South Island of New Zealand) I am selecting and presenting images captured on slides during my years as a grassland development specialist primarily working on United Nations projects in remote and fascinating corners of the world. As an example, I have a large number of photographs taken in China during the early 1980s, when China was beginning to “open up” to the West, and also of Bhutan and Ethiopia.

Examples of my photographs may be viewed on this site.

Apart from undertaking a number of personal projects, I am also available for commissioned work.

Pastoral Systems – Resource Assessment

“The Science” – The site outlines my professional specialization and service relating to integrated inventory, analysis and assessment of the land, forage and livestock resources comprising complex pastoral farming systems. Resource component balance and sustainability are fundamental.

The site presents details of RAPS, a sophisticated software package designed by myself  to aid management planning, policy formulation, development assessment and environmental impact forecasting relating to pastoral systems (grasslands, range lands and livestock farms). The software is available for downloading.

There is also a link to an on-line version of the book entitled “Grassland Resource Assessment for Pastoral Systems” which I wrote for the Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO, 2000).

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