John Harrison

John Harrison

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Parabolic Microphone Wind Noise - Design Factors That Matter
Look closely at a TalonFab dish and you'll see aerodynamic design features to manage wind noise from the outset - a microphone position out of the wind and a rounded rim. This article looks at the effect of these design features through aerodynamic simulation.
17.08.26 09:47 AM - Comment(s)
Darwin to Mitchell Plateau - Trip Report
An eight-night 4WD road trip from Darwin to the Mitchell Plateau in search of Black Grasswren. Along the way we photographed Top End and Kimberley specialties including Hooded Parrot, Purple-crowned Fairywren and Kimberley Honeyeater.
09.08.26 02:49 PM - Comment(s)
Parabolic Microphone Focus: Various simulated scenarios
Every parabolic dish concentrates on-axis sound towards the microphone. Put the capsule there and everything the dish gathered arrives in phase. Miss it, and the arrivals from different parts of the dish stop agreeing with each other - first at the highest frequencies, where a millime...
19.07.26 08:46 PM - Comment(s)
How to EQ a Parabolic Microphone
A parabolic dish boosts high frequencies by design - about 6 dB per octave. Why that happens, what EQ to apply, and software based compensation for TalonFab microphones.
19.07.26 08:25 PM - Comment(s)
How to Record Bird Calls: A Complete Field Recording and Editing Guide
Learn how to record, clean up and share bird calls using a practical field workflow. This guide covers microphone setup, positioning, spectrogram editing, filtering, parabolic compensation and export using the free TalonFab Recorder and Editor.
17.07.26 08:53 AM - Comment(s)
East Pilbara and Cue - Trip Report
A short Pilbara birding trip targeting Pilbara Grasswren and Western Quail-thrush, resulting in 35 species and 3 lifers despite missing baggage and a back injury!
10.06.26 08:04 PM - Comment(s)
Australia and New Zealand Subantarctic Islands - Trip Report
14-day photography expedition to The Snares, Auckland Islands, Macquarie and Campbell Island, documenting nesting Southern Royal Albatross, Royal and King Penguins, Eastern Rockhoppers, pelagic seabirds, and real-world gear strategy for Subantarctic field photography.
21.02.26 02:34 PM - Comment(s)
eBird Photographic Life List Tool
This tool gives you your photographic life list by uploading a CSV exported from the “Latest Photos” section of your eBird profile. Everything runs locally in your browser, no data is uploaded or stored, and you can update the list at any time by exporting and uploading a fresh CSV.
10.12.25 06:08 PM - Comment(s)
Sumba - Trip Report

Recently I published a trip report about birding for a few days in Timor. This was part a trip that involved travelling to both West Timor and Sumba in Indonesia. This blog post covers the Sumba part of the trip. See this previous post for the Timor part.

06.12.25 04:31 PM - Comment(s)
Timor - Trip Report
A photography-focused birding trip through Timor, documenting encounters with Timor Boobook, Timor Nightjar and other local endemics. Includes early mornings at Fatumnasi, lowland sessions near Bipolo and multiple nocturnal attempts in the forests around Soe.
28.11.25 05:31 PM - Comment(s)
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