About the Photographer

Richard Nichol

Latest favourite wildlife shot - Palm Cockatoo, Cape York

I have been a photographer since my early teenage years, while still at school, playing around with Minolta and Pentax SLR cameras, a numerous vareity of lenses, developing my own film and prints in my own darkroom set up in the back shed of the family home in Diamond Harbour, NZ.

I experimented with Black and White photography and marveled at the detail and beauty of the images that could be created. I quickly advanced to using the top of range Nikon kit for travel (FE with 43-86).

A stint as a professional freelance photographer in my early 20's for a newspaper in QLD was exiting stuff starting off in advertising and quickly getting into editorial work having set up another darkroom in a cupboard in order to produce the black and white prints for the paper.

This led to a professional photographer position for a sports magazine full time supplying a lot of black and white photos and colour cover shots every week. Another bigger bettrr darkroom was developed with the latest technolgy at the time and together with the editor, I was able to gain access to the latest top of the range Nikon equipment available to undertake the work.

After that it was back to the travel kit, already drowned once in the Bloomfield river and replaced with, would you believe it, the same again! With the age of film dying off to make way for the new digital age, the old kit is still there in my dry cabinet just in case!

Here he is - still battling!

Early 80's Back at the Headquarters!