Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
I have done a post on the Snow Leopard Cubs and the rest of the animals at a recent visit to Melbourne Zoo. Another exhibit was the Otters and some new otter pups, playing and being so cute. I watched for ages and took so many photos, it only felt right to give them their…
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Yesterday I featured the images of the Snow Leopard cubs at Melbourne Zoo, now I will show you some of the other animals we encountered. We never got all the way round the Zoo, but we did see most. Some exhibits were closed such as the Butterfly house, the Seal and Penguin encloser, the reptile…
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One of the reasons I really wanted to go to Australia Gardens, was to capture some fabulous birds with the 70-300mm lens Tamron had loaned to me. Check out the flower in this post. I am not a Bird Watcher (or Twitcher) by any means, but having a 300mm telephoto zoom, made it much easier…
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Continuing on from the Orchid House at Australia Gardens, I visited the Scrub lands and the rich red soil full of wonderous Australian Native Flowers, paper daisies, kangaroo paw, grevillea, waratah, banksia and more… All shot with the Tamron 70-300mm lens. While it may be Spring, this garden is often at it’s best in Winter…
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We seem to be three for three in weekly outings, it’s been great. Sadly we only seem to get one day between Friday and Sunday that’s actually worth leaving the house. The joy of Spring and unpredictable weather. This week is Australia Gardens in Cranbourne about 50km SE Melbourne. not far from my house, beautiful…
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Yesterday I too you back to Frog Hollows, a lovely little wetland about 5km from my house. Being spring there were quite a few babies around, I became quite enamoured with these duckling and their Mumma (I assume), she had quite the hand full…there were 11 ducklings. I went back the next day hoping for…
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Yesterday I introduced you to Frog Hollows, a lovely little wetland about 5km from my house. Bridges and walking tracks and three separate wetland areas. Today I am going to share the far pond, which is partially under the freeway! You would certainly never know it. I was quite fond of the black swan and…
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Following on from our visit to the Botanic Gardens last week, this week we journeyed to the out limits of our 5km exclusion zone and visited Frog Hollows. I had been lent a new lens to test and I needed something with a bit of distance and room to test out this big boy (well…
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After wandering through the rose garden, the lily pond and the lake, which also has an amphitheatre, where is Summer they screen movies for family picnics, we used to take the kids sometimes. We ended up in the gazebo area, such a pretty spot. That’s about it for Wilson Botanic Gardens, I do hope you…
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Visiting our local Wilson Botanical Gardens we strolled around the lilly pond, the rose garden and of course the lake, which used to be an old quarry. There is not much that remains, but one old set of pylons. The lake is home to hundreds of turtles and ducks and varied other water fowl too,…
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Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 