I took one of my photos of a Rainbow Lorikeet, and turned it into this cute piece of digital art. Did you notice the sweet ladybug? Also from another photo taken in the garden. Here’s hoping you’re having a wonderful day… ~ Julz
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Spring Outings – Australia Gardens Pt 3
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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Spring Outings – Australia Gardens Pt 2
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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Spring Outings – Australia Gardens Pt 1
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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Friday’s Flowers – Leucadendrons
When Dad passed away recently I had wonderful friends who sent me flowers, so thoughtful to know they cared, but also to know they care enough that some still life flower photography would be just the gentle creative therapy I’d need. I was given one bunch so big I could only fit them in a…
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Honey Eater – Digital Art
So I recently spent some time playing in Photoshop, just for fun. I wanted to hone my skills with the mixer brush for an upcoming presentation and also a few classes. I have not tinkered with it in quite a while. I attended a presentation where a friend on my did a presentation on making…
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Mondays Musings…
Gotta take what opportunities arise right? I have been self-isolating for months, recovering from surgery and hiding from the world. I had to bust out. Yesterday there was a small break in the weather and we headed out to our local gardens. We have been here lots, but maybe not as often as we should.…
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Summer Outings – Australia Gardens (again)
No this is not a duplicate, I did, in fact, go back to the Australia Gardens again this week, 4 days after the last visit. There was a rather large eucalypt seed pods about to burst into bloom and I wanted to go back and photograph it – I wrote a post in it last…
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Friday Flowers – Eucalyptus Macrocarpa
On a recent visit to Australia Gardens in Cranbourne, I came across this magnificent Eucaplyt Seed Pod and took many images. A few days later, I could not resist revisiting the gardens, one lovely cool, Summer morning to see if the pods had opened…I was not disappointed. This is such a stunning plant, if I…
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Summer Outings – Australia Gardens
Another year, another visit, this time armed only with my 50mm macro lens, I really wanted to concentrate on the orchid house, sadly one tiny, lonely little orchid (about the size of your thumb). I was completely mesmerised by some Paper Daisies and a Eucalypt Pod…will give them their own post. These images are from…
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Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 