Feature Journalism
Feature Journalism
“The Snowies without snow” – The Australian newspaper T&I
You don’t have to be a thrill seeker, or even going particularly fast, to experience the exhilaration of a downhill mountain-bike run at Thredbo,...
Angels in disguise – feature story for Outback magazine
Photo credit: Ricky French
There’s a granite rock high in the Upper Murray Valley, where Mick Sutcliffe comes to sit and gaze over his cattle...
Canberra’s best summer exhibitions – The Australian newspaper
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 To Now (National Gallery of Australia)
When the idea of a portrait wall consisting entirely of female Australian...
Hedonistic hiking on Mount Buffalo – The Australian newspaper T&I
Photo credit: Ricky French
Stone steps lead up through marble-trunked snow gums and mountain pepper trees. Frogs croak and a thousand insects flitter above the...
Brumby 2020 round-up – The Weekend Australian ‘Inquirer’
Photo credit: Sean Davey
If you could choose to be any pest animal living in an Australian alpine national park in 2020, you’d be pretty...
Wine’s triple-whammy year – the Weekend Australian Magazine
Photo credit: Ricky French
The most incredible film ever shot in the Adelaide Hills could well be the seven second video Geoff Weaver recorded of...
Thwarted travel in a time of Covid – The Australian newspaper T&I
Travel writers like to think they have a knack for getting themselves in the right place at the right time. Like any reporting, you...
‘Hydrotherapy’ – travel story for Outback magazine
Travel story through the Great Artesian Basin for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020
Words and pictures Ricky French
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‘All aboard!’ – travel story for Outback magazine
Travel story aboard Yukon Tours for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020
Words and pictures Ricky French
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‘The little possum bringing an industry to its knees’ – cover story for the...
Photo credit: Ricky French
On April 3, 1961, a 22-year-old junior at the fossils department of Melbourne Museum was walking at night in the montane...