After two very short days in Suva, Ravai and I met again Sunday morning to fly to Vunisea in Kadavu, where we would continue our journey to our last destination: Dravuni Island. There are no […]
After we had returned from Kavewa Island and spent a night at the WWF headquarters in Labasa, our next destination was Yadua Island to the west of Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island. More specifically, […]
My recent photo and film assignment with WWF Pacific was all about turtles: Fiji’s turtle nesting season was in full swing, and the idea was to join several turtle monitoring teams in the field and […]
Marine turtles are of significant cultural importance in Fiji. They play a part in many traditional ceremonies and are the subject of many stories and local legends. Turtles have been and still are hunted and […]
I recently visited Turtle Island for a few days of film shooting and found some great bird life on the lush and forested island (more than 500.000 trees have been planted here since the 1980s!) […]
Just recently I was on a beautiful assignment: documenting the birds of Momi Bay for the Marriott Resort. The assignment also included the design of a coffee table book according to the Marriott Brand Guidelines which […]
As some of the readers might know, my time living in Fiji is approaching five years in total – crazy! I have spent nearly a seventh of my life on this island in the South […]
The last few months have been pretty intense, with lots of different assignments, travel and the usual daily ups and downs. After three years in Fiji, I flew home to Germany in May for a […]
During the Great Southern Bioblitz 2021, we organised an expedition with Kevin and Wojciech from @birdexplorers to photograph and film Fiji’s endemic and rarely seen Pink-billed parrotfinch (Erythrura kleinschmidti). This elusive bird is only found […]
Fidschi steht normalerweise für palmengesäumte Strände, azurblaue Lagunen und tropische Gastfreundlichkeit. Die Realität zeichnet zurzeit ein anderes Bild: geschlossene Landesgrenzen, explodierende COVID-19 Neuinfektionen und steigende Arbeitslosigkeit bestimmen den Alltag der Inselnation, die am Rande einer […]
Tom Vierus is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and marine biologist based in Suva, Fiji Islands. This blog is dedicated to his assignments and to sharing some behind-the-scenes footage.
