How can it almost be the end of January already?
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Sunday, 31 January 2016
Chain and Block
I found this large chain and block next to the main jetty on Lord Howe - I rather like them as black and white images.
How can it almost be the end of January already?
You can can find more shots from around the world at Our World Tuesday.
How can it almost be the end of January already?
You can can find more shots from around the world at Our World Tuesday.
52 Frames - Week 5 - Shoot from above - "High Summer"
This weeks challenge on 52 Frames was 'shoot from above' - I could have done a lot of this this the cliffs, sea bed and plane journey from LHI - but the shot has to have been taken this week.
On Australia Day I was walking across a bridge at Studley Park in Melbourne when I saw this combination of a row-boat and bright reflection. It made me think of 'high summer' and I was above the boat - so that was that!
I have to say the images that you can get from a phone are remarkable these days!!
On Australia Day I was walking across a bridge at Studley Park in Melbourne when I saw this combination of a row-boat and bright reflection. It made me think of 'high summer' and I was above the boat - so that was that!
I have to say the images that you can get from a phone are remarkable these days!!
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Wild Bird Wednesday 183 - Pacific Golden Plover
The grassy edges flanking the runway of Lord Howe Island airstrip are a bit of a classic viewing point for waders - and all these pictures were taken while I was leaning over the fence trying to get has close as possible to these rather wonderful birds.
Pacific Golden Plovers (Pluvialis fulva) are a summer visitor to Australia - but because we are in the southern hemisphere we only get the birds in their nonbreeding plumage. It always makes me laugh when I think that I used to call these plumages "winter" and "summer" - for birds that migrate to Australia when they are not breeding both plumages are summer!
Getting ready to go back to work tonight, so I'll keep this post short and let these splendid little, long distance travellers take centre stage.
This final shot was taken in much brighter light at the north end of the island. This bird and its companions were much more flighty than the birds on the runway - so I was not able to get as close.
As ever, it is now over to you to click on the blue button and join in the community that is WBW!
Pacific Golden Plovers (Pluvialis fulva) are a summer visitor to Australia - but because we are in the southern hemisphere we only get the birds in their nonbreeding plumage. It always makes me laugh when I think that I used to call these plumages "winter" and "summer" - for birds that migrate to Australia when they are not breeding both plumages are summer!
Getting ready to go back to work tonight, so I'll keep this post short and let these splendid little, long distance travellers take centre stage.
This final shot was taken in much brighter light at the north end of the island. This bird and its companions were much more flighty than the birds on the runway - so I was not able to get as close.
As ever, it is now over to you to click on the blue button and join in the community that is WBW!
Monday, 25 January 2016
Movement and bride
When I was in Sydney a couple of weeks ago I was playing with some long exposure shots of passing cars. The idea was to try to contrast the hectic life I was seeing around me with my own holiday pace. I'm not sure that it worked - but when I bride in her full wedding dress walked into the picture I just had to to keep going.
In the end I am rather pleased with this shot - and again its a bit different to my normal images. This one will need to be clicked on to been seen at its best.
You can find more shots from around the world here at Our World Tuesday.
In the end I am rather pleased with this shot - and again its a bit different to my normal images. This one will need to be clicked on to been seen at its best.
You can find more shots from around the world here at Our World Tuesday.
Sunday, 24 January 2016
The Ghosts of Summer
On about the second or third day after I migrated to Australia, I went for a drive into the hills beyond Melbourne. That was the first day I ever heard the screaming buzz of thousands of cicadas, forming a kind of rhythmic background noise to a hot day. That noise had be synonymous with hot days ever since.
Cicadas spend much of their lives in the soil as nymphs, before they crawl up some convenient object and burst, alien like, from their own skin to become the adults we hear, not do not often see. This means that the discarded shells of the last nymphal stage of their lives is the most commonly seem aspect of these insects lives.
Lord Howe Island has just one species of cicada, and what it lacks in size it makes up for in noise! They were the dominant sound on the island during our most recent trip to the Island. At times the noise would start up like somebody had flicked a switch - and it could also fall silent in a similar way.
These are not shots of the adult, but just the abandoned cases.
Cicadas spend much of their lives in the soil as nymphs, before they crawl up some convenient object and burst, alien like, from their own skin to become the adults we hear, not do not often see. This means that the discarded shells of the last nymphal stage of their lives is the most commonly seem aspect of these insects lives.
Lord Howe Island has just one species of cicada, and what it lacks in size it makes up for in noise! They were the dominant sound on the island during our most recent trip to the Island. At times the noise would start up like somebody had flicked a switch - and it could also fall silent in a similar way.
These are not shots of the adult, but just the abandoned cases.
In both pictures I choose not to get too close to the 'skin' as I think a little distance gives them a better feel for how you find them.
You can find more macro shots (if this is what these are) at Macro Monday and I love Macro.
Friday, 22 January 2016
52 Frames - Week 4 - Shoot from Below - "soft white underbelly"
This weeks 52 Frames was Shoot from Below. The week of the challenge coincided with my return to Lord Howe Island - this time with the family.
On the island you can feed fish in the shallows of Neds Beach - and I used this as a chance to photograph some fish from below. I weighted a pole with a GoPro on it and let it rest on the sand in the shallows - as the fish swam over the camera I triggered the video, later I extracted some still images from the video file. It was all rather good fun - and the kids loved feeding the fish!
The fish are Silver Drummer - and they do not make good eating I am told! The local name for this fish is Stinker, due to the fact that they poo everywhere if you do catch them and that they stink! So, as a table fish they are not on the menu!
I will be trying to catch up with comments etc over the weekend. Cheers - SM
On the island you can feed fish in the shallows of Neds Beach - and I used this as a chance to photograph some fish from below. I weighted a pole with a GoPro on it and let it rest on the sand in the shallows - as the fish swam over the camera I triggered the video, later I extracted some still images from the video file. It was all rather good fun - and the kids loved feeding the fish!
The fish are Silver Drummer - and they do not make good eating I am told! The local name for this fish is Stinker, due to the fact that they poo everywhere if you do catch them and that they stink! So, as a table fish they are not on the menu!
I will be trying to catch up with comments etc over the weekend. Cheers - SM
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