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Presentation slides and photos from the 2024 Birdlife Photography Biennial Conference that was held in Hahndorf, SA on the 23rd and 24th of March this year are now available for viewing for Birdlife Photography members. The presentation slides have been changed to pdfs; not all of them have text but we hope you are inspired by the stunning photography. You can find them under Conference -> BLPBC 2024 Presentations. Photos of the conference, including of the speakers, plus a video preview of the 2026 conference are also avaiable under Conference -> BLPBC 2024 Photos and Video.
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Following Graham Cam's Lightroom Processing presentation on 28th February, he decided to produce a set of video tutorials for various tools and masks available in Lightroom Classic. An eye problem has delayed this, but he advises that they should be completed and available here for members only by the first week of May. The videos will cover the following topics:
The Best of 2023 competition was held in January-March 2024. The subject must have have been taken in 2023.
The results of member voting for the top five images in each category are listed here. This competition received good support from our members, with 189 images entered across the 3 competition levels by 102 photographers. The Winner is the image which received the most votes; and we also show the next four highest placed images, rating them as Highly Commended if they received at least 90% of the votes for the winning image, and Commended for scores less than that.
Advanced Level – Best of 2023
This category attracted 68 entries, from 35 photographers. 59 members voted, with the following result:
Intermediate Level – Best of 2023
This category attracted 94 entries, from 52 photographers. 63 members voted, with the following result:
Entry Level – Best of 2023
This category attracted 27 entries, from 15 photographers. 46 members voted, with the following result:
Our Mystery Reviewers have completed their assessments of the images in each level of the Best of 2023 competition; their ratings are as follows:
Advanced Level – Best of 2023
Intermediate Level – Best of 2023
Entry Level – Best of 2023
The Mystery Reviewer Critiques are available in the Resources - Mystery Reviewer Critiques page.
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.
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
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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 Photography?" is now available.
It can be found at Resources -> Our Zoom Presentations
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Jamie discussed subjects such as the origins of AI, what it means for photography, and how it can be harnessed for bird photography.
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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