Drought - Featuring Yellow-faced Honeyeaters Ed. 6 of 25

Bring nature inside:
Intricate little Honeyeaters on bare tree branches, really gives a Japanese feel.
Great for a light minimalist room, with that tiny pops of yellow.

The birds were photographed individually and then composted together to create the overall composition.

The birds have been photographed in such a way that they look like a drawing rather than a photo. Printing on art paper heightens that effect.

Story that inspired image:
In 2018 there was a record number of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters that were rescued in the inner city of Sydney. It is believed they had come into the suburban/city garden areas in search of flowering nectar as their usual habitat had dried up during the drought which had affected NSW.

Although city gardens provide valuable food sources for some bird species, these tiny honeyeaters couldn’t navigate the high-rise buildings resulting in collisions.

The birds featured here all recovered from wing injuries and concussion.

They were all successfully rehabbed/released.

This image came third place in the 2018 Australian Photography Awards

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Angela Robertson-Buchanan is "The Bird Photographer", an award-winning professional nature photographer and published children’s author, specialising in birds.
Angela combines her interests in wildlife and photography by creating images, projects and exhibitions where she can convey a conservation message.
All sales go directly to Angela's wildlife rescue care as well as a percentage of sales donated to wildlife organisations Angela supports.

After gaining her degree in art, design and media at Portsmouth University in the UK, Angela worked as a cruise ship photographer. This fast-paced work honed her skills in travel, portrait, social and wildlife photography.
After life at sea Angela moved to London where she worked at a respected studio that hired its services to the top magazines and photographers.
This was a time when film was still used for magazine shoots. Angela worked in the darkroom as a colour hand printer. The studio produced beautiful, hand-printed fashion images for magazines like Vogue.

​In 2002 Angela moved to Sydney, Australia and fell in love with the nature here, especially the parrots!
​Here she trained as a wildlife rescuer and carer and now specialise in bird rehabilitation with WIRES Inner West.

Angela's photographic techniques align with her respect for nature. She relies on natural light rather than flash and has spent many hours in aviaries allowing birds to get used to her:

​"I use a macro lens, which requires me to get quite close to the bird. I also use a very shallow depth of field. So the focus has to be spot on. This technique requires a lot of patience, as birds don’t stay still. But the results are worth it".