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'You might not know what your style is, but you probably already know what you like. You know which of your pictures make you happy and which leave you cold. You know which other photographers’ work makes you stop scrolling and look.' simple clear useful advice 👇🏽

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 20h

This gull is a good likeness of me when I was starting my bird photography journey and people told me to “develop your own unique style!” I’ve written 500 words on my website about the part they didn’t tell me - how the hell you do that. birds.photos/2026/10/07/s...

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As a relative beginner, I once attended a workshop run by a professional photographer about how to take good portraits. It was interesting and useful, but one thing puzzled me. The point he stresse…

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shake it like a Polaroid picture! 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m getting very grumpy with all these overcast weekend dawns we keep getting. Still, managed to catch this kakīānau preening in a good spot this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A picture you can hear. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had a wonderful session with the kuaka (bar-tailed godwits) at Omaha this morning. They were very chilled out, resting and relaxing after their long migration all the way from Alaska’s arctic tundra. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A pūkeko digging around in the grass for worms at Western Springs on Saturday morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A kakīānau (black swan) being a good sport and preening in a shard of light for me at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks for all the feedback! I decided to lean into the high-key treatment on this mouthy tarāpunga. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year exhibition is currently on in Atrium on Takutai, downtown Tāmaki Makaurau. My amazing work colleague Amy gave up her lunch break to ride the CRL and take this for me today.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Any concerns I perhaps wasn’t low enough for this shot? 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can’t go wrong with a black swan in nice light. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My mother holding a kōtare (sacred kingfisher) we rescued from the road this morning. I was able to take some pictures while we waited outside the emergency vet clinic for the nurse to come out and get him/her. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This morning at Western Springs: A female pāpango (New Zealand scaup) shakes off some water while her mate preens behind her. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nothing new today because I’m putting up election hoardings for the Labour Party - extremely miffed it’s a gorgeous sunny morning for the first Saturday in ages and I can’t shoot… In lieu of new work, here’s a re-edit of a shot taken on a more typical Saturday morning a few weeks ago. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A Canada goose doing its thing by the lake in Kirikiriroa this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Look at me when I’m talkin’ to ya, boy.” - Foghorn Leghorn 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) having a preening session while a few spots of rain started to come down at Omaha this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m a finalist in New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year for the second year running! This year they have selected my chiaroscuro coots. The exhibition opens at Britomart soon, and I'd love your support in the People's Choice award! Vote for up to 5 favs here: www.nzgeo.com/photography/...

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

RIP to the lower viewing platform at Muriwai gannet colony, now removed, which means I’ll never take another picture from this angle. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Find yourself someone who loves you like tūī love Taiwanese cherry blossom nectar. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A local character I came across at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground…” 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A coot doing coot things at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Slim pickings at Omaha this morning. Tide was a bit too low and I only got about three minutes of interesting light, during which I managed to get this shot! Then I wasted a couple of hours trying unsuccessfully to get something worth keeping in the murk. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I photographed a public meeting on understaffing at Waitākere Hospital for the Labour Party last night. Always a challenging assignment that gets me out of my creative comfort zone. They like lots of wide angle shots, which is a long way from my wheelhouse! Getting better at it though...

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Splish splash I was takin’ a bath… 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Every move you make, every step you take, I’ll be watching you…” 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some personal favourites from my photography journey over the past couple of years.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Bokeh balls and kuaka (bar-tailed godwits) - these are a few of my favourite things. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A pāpango (New Zealand scaup) beating its wings on a bright sunny morning. Underexposed to resemble a starry night. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Portrait of a well fed kōtare (sacred kingfisher) in Parnell this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Re-edit on one of my all-time favs - “surveillance”. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Had 20 minutes to kill in Thames this afternoon. Spent it with this tara (white-fronted tern). 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A high-key mono coot silhouette! Shooting arty-farty at Hamilton Lake this evening. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

He leavin’! This morning at Western Springs. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

JAW - a local celebrity at Te Henga (Bethells Beach). Half of a breeding pair that’s produced a heap of offspring for this threatened species. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is a new one on me! Fairly sure it’s a pīhoihoi (New Zealand pipit) - this morning at Te Henga. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Members of @nzno.bsky.social at Waitākere Hospital striking for health and safety due to chronic understaffing this morning.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Something from the archives? I took this in our neighbourhood a few years ago. When I posted it in the community Facebook group, one of our neighbours said her young son had named all the local tūī and when she showed this to him he exclaimed “oh mum, that’s Lucy!!!” So this is Lucy the tūī. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Got home today after a week away. My mum has been doing a great job house sitting for us but this guy is soooo happy we’re back. He’s been following me around, purring his head off, sitting on me and demanding affection nonstop for seven hours. Never let it be said that cats don’t love their people.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I was today years old when I learned that Kororāreka means “sweet penguin” because the local penguins are apparently good eating… I took my camera there with the 70-200 on it today and found a tree laden with pīwakawaka. I decided to have a go at making a composite of all my shots of them. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My proposal for a new national flag of Aotearoa. A horizontal tricolour with a kōtare flying through it as captured by me on the mudflats by Te Tii Marae in Waitangi this afternoon. No royalties will be claimed. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My partner and I are in the Bay of Islands this week celebrating our 20th civil union anniversary. One of the many things I adore Gina for is her total support (enabling?) of my obsessions. “You want to spend how much on a lens? Ok.” “You want to photograph gulls on our holiday? Sure.” 🪶🇳🇿

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Maybe: Steven 🔜 MIGW 🦘 @ikiguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

love our squawky little swamp chickens! look at them!!

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Four different takes on the common pūkeko over the last month or two. Doing my best to work with whatever light Mother Nature gives me. 🪶🇳🇿

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A pūkeko preening in a nice bit of early morning sun at Western Springs an hour or so ago. 🪶🇳🇿

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