Niall Benvie: BioBlitz Bristol, 2012
Niall Benvie recently shared why it is important for people to get to know their local wildlife during a recent BioBlitz in Bristol, UK. In this clip, you can also see how Niall uses a “clear set”...
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Anchorage Park Foundation Supports Exhibition of Carl Battreall’s MYN Work
The Anchorage Park Foundation is sponsoring a fantastic new exhibition of Carl Battreall‘s Meet Your Neighbours images at the Middle Way Cafe in Anchorage, Alaska. If you’re in the area, we hope that...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Meet Your Neighbours Photographers and the International League of Conservation Photographers team up to photograph National Geographic Society’s 2012 BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain...
View ArticleIbiza Wall Lizard, MYN Style!
MYN Contributor Neil Losin and his fellow Day’s Edge Productions team member Nate Dappen recently returned from Formentera, Spain on an expedition to document the Ibiza Wall Lizard. Their images will...
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DIY MYN Light Table
Later this week, I’ll be shooting MYN style for the National Geographic BioBlitz in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. I had been wanting to create a portable, easy-to-assemble light table for...
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Beautiful Discovery in Piedade
After a few weeks of taking pictures only around the backyard, I had the chance this weekend to go on my usual small rainforest spot in Piedade-SP and was greeted by an exciting bug finding. It’s a...
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National Geographic BioBlitz 2012
Meet Your Neighbours photographer Krista Schlyer photographs plants against a lit white background to separate the plant from its surroundings visually without damaging it or removing it from its...
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Piotr Naskrecki’s Local BioBlitz
Plant-sucking insects: A. Leafhopper (Agallia sp.); B. Red-banded Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea); C. Acanaloniid planthoper (Acanalonia conica). Via Piotr’s excellent blog, The Smaller Majority:...
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Borneo Awaits, Joris van Alphen
Meet Your Neighbours contributor Joris van Alphen has just embarked on an incredible expedition to document the wildlife found on Borneo’s mysterious Mt. Kinabalu. Van Alphen, who calls the...
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Beautiful Illustration of the Ibiza Wall Lizard’s Diversity
Many thanks to Neil Losin and Nate Dappen of Day’s Edge Productions for including MYN in their work on the Ibiza Wall Lizard in the Spanish Mediterranean! Neil has written an excellent post on...
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Free Imperial Moth Wallpaper for your Desktop
We’re so pleased to announce that The Nature Conservancy is featuring a Meet Your Neighbours image as their “Photo of the Month” for October. Clay Bolt‘s image of an Imperial Moth caterpillar on...
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Nat’Images Features Meet Your Neighbours
French wildlife magazine Nat’Images is featuring MYN in their October / November 2012 issue. Contributor Denis Palanque conducted interviews with co-founders Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt and wrote the...
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Europarc Conference 2012 Report by Niall Benvie
After two days of participation in the annual Europarc Conference, this year in Genk, Belgium, I am convinced more than ever that the nature photography community needs to get itself into gear and...
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Clothesline Neighbours
Sometimes our backyard neighbours are be a bit more neighbourly than wanted. About a month ago my wife Bronwyn was collecting the washing from the line when she noticed a Shield bug (Poecilometis sp)...
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Meet My Neighbours
Earlier this year I joined the Meet Your Neighbours (MYN) photography project and I’ve taken many MYN style images since then. But one of the features of the project that first attracted me to it was...
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Field studio birds – a start.
It’s been a slow start, but at last I’m making a little headway with photographing small birds in the field studio in our garden. Most species have shown an extraordinary reluctance to sit on the...
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MYN Photographers Spreading the Word in a “Big Way”
Joris van Alphen presents his MYN images at nearly 200′ across during PIXperience in Amsterdam. Meet Your Neighbours photographers have been sharing their work all over the world and this past weekend...
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Paul Harcourt Davies Takes the Gold in International Garden Photographer of...
Big congrats to MYN contributor Paul Harcourt Davies who has won the Royal Photographic Society Gold Award for Best Portfolio in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition for...
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Meet Your Neighbours technical standards.
Shoulders-back-chest-out-chin-in-head-up, I need to lay the law down here! When it comes to the technical specifications for Meet Your Neighbours pictures, we’re needing uniformity so that ALL the...
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Malibu Coast On White.
Feather boa kelp (Egregia menziesii), Malibu, California The goal of my Meet Your Neighbours project is to raise awareness of the diversity of species living along the Los Angeles County coastline and...
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