Australia Post stamp.
In a few days Australia Post will be issuing Wildlife Recovery, a set of 6 stamps featuring endangered species that were impacted by last summer’s bushfires. I’m very happy that they chose to use the photo above of the Bathurst Copper (Paralucia spinifera), also known as the Purple Copper, for one of the stamps in this issue.
A Naturalist’s Guide to the Butterflies of Australia
Also due out this month is A Naturalist’s Guide to the Butterflies of Australia, a new book by Peter Rowland and Rachel Whitlock, covering around 300 butterfly species. I provided 35 photos for this book, though I haven’t seen it yet so I don’t know if they used them all.
New menu
I’ve changed this website’s menu. The old version used HTML Frames, but frames were deprecated in HTML4.01 and removed from the standard in HTML5. I liked my old menu, in fact I always liked the way Frames allow me to browse through a website without losing my place in the menu, but it’s only a matter of time before web browsers stop supporting them, so I decided I needed to go a different way. I ended up choosing the Max Mega Menu plugin for WordPress; it took me a while to get a result I liked but I think it’s OK for the time being.
Well done Martin! And I’m so pleased that they used your actual photo. When SAPO did their butterfly and moth definitive series they got an artist to stylise my photos. So I wasn’t acknowledged as the artist. And I didn’t get paid a cent. Did you get paid for your photo?
Thanks Steve. Yes, I did get paid a rather nice sum for one photo. So I mentioned that I have well over 8000 more photos in case they wanted to do more butterfly stamps. If they used all of them I could retire…