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2026 Wild Wing Images Photography and Storytelling - Camp Meerup - Tentative


  • Melissa Zappelli Green Valley Farmhouse Northcliffe Australia (map)
2026 Camp Meerup Information Pack

I love this portrait image captured by my amazing friend Jennifer Noble at Denmark WA. I don’t have many photos of me and this one just captures who I am brilliantly. Xxx

Join me in a very exciting, new chapter of life! Wild Wing Images has designed a five day, four night photography and storytelling camp with places for 7 participants. The trip runs from a rustic farmhouse near Northcliffe and covers a broad range of photographic situations while exploring the diverse, rugged and very beautiful landscapes that surround Meerup, Pemberton and Windy Harbour in the far South West corner of WA. There will be opportunity to photograph birds, frogs, marsupials, orchids, flowers, insects, spiderwebs, waterfalls, ocean, old growth Karri and Tingle forest, the ancient Warren River, the fascinating Yeagarup Dune System, a wild Southern Ocean, rugged coastal cliffs, pure white beaches, and billion stars at night. My first camp ran in October 2025 and was an incredible success made possible by a wonderful group of extremely talented, wise and enthusiastic ladies. You can read their testimonies below. 

2026 - Camp Meerup - Information Pack

In 2026 Camp Meerup is running from midday Friday 16th October 2026 through to 2pm on Tuesday 20th October 2026. If this trip fills and there is enough interest I have the option to run a second camp starting at midday on Sunday 11th October and running through to 2pm on Thursday 15th October. I need at 6-7 participants to run so the second trip will only happen if there is enough interest.

One of Wild Wings 2025 Participants Photographing the Landscape, Rugged Limestone Cliffs and Southern Ocean.

For a while now I have wanted to run photography workshops to share what I have learnt on my photographic and writing escapades over the past decade but also, and more importantly to create a forum for connection.  Connection to self, connection to others, connection to life, connection to nature and connection to the earth. Photography has helped me enormously, to create a sense of belonging, to navigate the difficult times, to appreciate the bigger picture and to see light and beauty wherever I am, to see it within myself, to see it in others and to see it in the wider world. 

The SW Corner of Australia has 1/3 of the Worlds Carnivorous Plants. A Tiny but Deadly Drosera Sparkling!!

Pink Petticoat Bladderworts - Another Beautiful Carnivore, In Some Areas These Plants Form a Carpet of Lolly Pink.

Storytelling is in our DNA. It is an ancient skill that transcends time. It is how we as humans create meaning and connection with others and our surrounds. It is how we consolidate our experience and it is how knowledge and wisdom are passed to others. To tell stories is to share part of yourself. An invite to others to see and feel the inner landscapes of your mind, heart and soul.  Storytelling can be a deeply vulnerable experience where events are woven with emotion, sensation, insight and thought. To hear or read a story is to touch the experience of another and bear witness to the good, bad, messy, unexpected, wonderful, tragic and ridiculously funny things that happen to us all. A good story takes time and care. Stories are a source of inspiration and creativity but more importantly they weave our being into the beautiful dance of life and slowly help us realize we are never alone. 

Hand Sillhouettes of People’s Past - A Connection Through Time to Those Who Walked These Lands Before.

A Secret Waterhole. A Place that Sustained Life for Eons. Hidden in Fold of Granite Within an Ancient Red Monolith. The Safest Place I Know.

Photography and storytelling go hand in hand. To create a beautiful image you need ideas, thought, practice, knowledge, experience, skill and often luck. These are also ingredients for a story along with awareness of your inner world and an understanding of broader contextual elements such as environment, ecology, history and science. It takes practice, patience and time to weave these elements together with words but like anything, skill develops with consistent effort. Very often language is not enough, but somehow with a good weave and quality ingredients, words begin to shimmer and the magic speaks for itself. 

One of my Stories - Told In Pictures - My Wonderful Dad - A Shared Love of the Desert Lands & Birds and Flowers - Loss - Sadness - Grief - Gratitude - Love - Connection and Meaning. Creating Stories is one Way to Process Emotion and Make Sense of Life ❤️

I am not a technical person and my trips will not be about creating perfect images or stories but rather to expand on the meaning and connection photography and writing can bring to your life. It will be a different experience for everyone. Each trip brings together individuals with unique backgrounds, life experience, skill, knowledge and wisdom. There will be different perceptions, strengths, ideals, priorities, beliefs and obstacles. It is in the difference that wisdom dances. There is so much we can learn from each other with the space between always an opportunity to grow, to deepen understanding of self and to lift others up with kindness and humour. 

Lyn one of my 2025 Participants Chatting to Graeme from Pemberton Discovery Tours

Lyn and Myself having a good Laugh about Something!! Probably Ourselves?

Mum Walking Amongst the Ancient Karri Trees

Mum On the Job with With Her GoPro

While this trip has a focus around photography and storytelling you do not need to be a photographer or even own a camera to attend. Last year my 80 year old Mum came along and was able to participate and enjoy all of the activities and program. I also had a guest who was not a photographer but was interested in creativity, storytelling and landscape. Both Mum and my non photographer guest captured beautiful images and had a wonderful experience. These days, phones can be used to create images and I have spare cameras, GoPros and various lenses, tripods and equipment guests can use. You can view a gallery with some of the incredible images captured by last years guests and myself with the button below.

Jodie, one of my 2025 Guests Creating Stunning Landscape Images at the Mouth of the Warren River.

Camp Meerup Gallery
2026 Camp Meerup Itinerary