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The next BirdLife Photography Biennial Conference will be held in Hahndorf, SA, at the Adelaide Hills Convention Centre, on 23rd & 24th March 2024.
Visit the dedicated BirdLife Photography Biennial Conference website for details. Ticket sales are now open.
The final cut-off dates for conference attendance and conference dinner bookings are Saturday 9th of March for the dinner and Saturday 16th of March for the conference itself. No bookings can be accepted after the cut-off dates
BirdLife Photography would like to acknowledge Adelaide Optical Centre and Twin City Cameras for their generous sponsorship of our conference.
This Search facility will search all website content, uploaded documents, and images. Some content on this site is restricted to BLP members; visitors may not be able to access all the items found. The search options button on the All Photos page (on the Photo Gallery drop-down menu), and on individual gallery pages, provides more options for searching images only.
Our first competition for this year, Best of 2023, has closed for entries and is now open for member voting.
Voting will close at 6PM AEDT on Monday, 1st April 2024.
You may vote for one or more of the competition levels. You do not need to have submitted an image to the competition to vote.
If you need help on how to vote, please see the
Photo Gallery-->Competitions-->
Please remember that this is not a popularity vote for your favourite bird, the rarest species or the most colourful bird.
For first-timers, you can monitor progressive voting for your entries at My Photos on the website. Do not be dismayed if one or more of your images receives no votes as you will not be alone. With numerous entries at each level, it will be difficult to score points. This is all part of a learning process to improve your bird photography.
In 2023 we advised members of some forthcoming website gallery changes the committee had proposed and agreed. Here are the details of these changes, which were made on 12th March 2024.
Landscapes-Habitat-KBAs Gallery. This gallery and its contents have been removed.
Science & Conservation Gallery. This gallery has been deleted; some images were moved to the main library, most were deleted.
Slides Gallery. This gallery will be deleted after our new website becomes operational; the images will then be moved to our main library.
Previous Competition Galleries. Images from previous years competitions, have been deleted, except for those rated by a Mystery Reviewer or in member voting. The Mystery Reviewer Critiques will continue to be available on the website, and a new set of pages of Previous Competition Results is now available; articles there contain links to the images that have been retained; these images are now in the main library.
Premier Bird Images Gallery. This gallery has been deleted, and the images moved to our main library.
Bird ID Challenge Galleries. These galleries have been deleted. Images in these galleries were moved from the main library for the ID Challenges they have been returned to the main library.
On Wednesday 28th February, Graham Cam presented a detailed update for the Masking Tools in the Lightroom Classic Develop panel, as well as other module updates such as the Point Colour in the Colour Mixer module and Enhance AI Denoise in the Detail module. The new Remove tool in Photoshop was also highlighted. Rather than provide a lengthy Zoom video recording encompassing all the above, Graham has decided to replace that with a set of 20-minute pre-recorded videos, which will take members through a more detailed and targeted workflow for each individual tool and mask available in Lightroom Classic. These videos will be uploaded to the Resources section of the website, sequentially, as they are produced over the next few weeks. These videos will be member-only content; as they appear, a short item will be added here advising members of their availablity.
Results are in for the 2023 Photo of the Year member voting.
For those who missed it or would like to view it again, our recent "Members Inspiring Members" Zoom Presentation is now available.
It can be found at Resources -> Our Zoom Presentations
This is members only - you must be logged in to access this video
Jacob Crisp, Ben Harvey, Chinh Nguyen and Stephen Garth discussed various topics such as pelagic photography trips and other general bird photography advice.
For those who missed it or would like to view it again, our recent Zoom Presentation by Jamie Van Leeuwen on "Is AI the Death of Bird Photoghraphy?" is now available.
It can be found at Resources -> Our Zoom Presentations
This is members only - you must be logged in to access this video
Jamie discussed subjects such as the origins of AI, what it means for photography, and how it can be harnessed for bird photography.
Our Mystery Reviewers have completed their assessments of the images in each level of the Parrots and Lorikeets competition; their ratings are as follows:
Advanced Level – Parrots and Lorikeets
Intermediate Level – Parrots and Lorikeets
Entry Level – Parrots and Lorikeets
The Mystery Reviewer Critiques are available in the Resources - Mystery Reviewer Critiques page.
A video introducing the venue and activities for the 2024 Biennial Conference in South Australia is available now, featuring our very own Peter Owen.
If you haven't made up your mind about coming yet, or you are coming but want to know more about what to expect, this will be useful.
The site has been upgraded to use Version 4 of Birdlife's Working List. The only significant changes are that Variegated Fairy-wren and Graceful Honeyeater have been split, into Variegated Fairy-wren and Purple-backed Fairy-wren, and Graceful Honeyeater and Cryptic Honeyeater, respectively. The other changes are the addition of 13 vagrants. The changes are detailed on the Resources - Taxonomic Changes page.
Our 2020 Members Survey showed that over 90% of responders would like us to develop a resource on our website for members to post information about recent field trips for the benefit of other members. We have set up a page for this purpose, at Resources - Road Trip Reports; committee member Doug Castle has provided a couple of articles to get the ball rolling. These reports are member-only access for two years; you must be logged in to see them.
If you would like to contribute to this resource, please send your report(s) to our website administrator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Don't worry about formatting; you can even send the report as an email message. You can include a couple of photos if you wish.
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The Our People page, in the About Us section, contains email links to each of the committee members.
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