Protea in the gardens

I spent a lovely morning with the protea in the backyard, now a tremendous storm has just gone through. I haven’t been out there to see the damage yet, but I at least have my photos til next season. I captured these beauties with my 90mm macro. I totally adore this lens, whats not to…

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Exploring Cloudehill & more

I know I have already shared some recent images of Cloudehill with my Velvet56, but I thought I’d share some of the other images as I took along my other camera and a 28-75mm Tamron lens. I also went for a lovely drive after the gardens, as it was such a gorgeous day and stopped…

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Spring Outings – Cloudehill Gardens

I have been going to Cloudehill gardens for many years now, it’s only about 15-20 minutes down the road, I visit as often as I can. I have missed it terribly during the last lockdown and missed many Spring flowers, but it was so nice to be able to visit with my new Lensbaby Velvet56…

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Visiting Frog Hollows in Spring

Previous trips to Frog Hollows in Spring there are more baby birds, ducklings and such. But I wasn’t disappointed in what I spotted. I took the new Tamron 18-300mm APS-C lens to review and just wanted to capture some nice nature photography. Spotted Superb Fairy Wren, Black Swan, various ducks there was also various wattle…

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Wilson Gardens with a Lens baby Velvet 56

I recently bought myself some new lenses and after sitting on the fence for a long time, I bought the Lens baby Velvet 56, I also got a Composer ii and Sweet 80. I have also had the Omni Creative filters in the past as well. The Velvet 56 is my latest and I instantly…

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Share your world – 5th October 2021

I guess I kind of fell off the planet for a while there, not that anything is wrong as such, just had nothing left to say. Melbourne has one the number one spot for the longest and harshest lockdown IN THE WORLD. I’m bored and frustrated and just blah. So I sort of turned off…

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It’s nearly Spring

I actually left the house, last week and spotted some of the Prunus trees were already in bloom. I had to grab some smaller branches or twiglets (?) and take them home to shoot. I decided to set up three different looks. I set up my black seamless background, placed a black stool. I also…

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Rainbow Lorikeets

These cute little guys have been playing in the front and backyard, they really love the red bottle brush trees…called Rainbow Lorikeets, had a ball watching and capturing them with a loaned Tamron 70-300mm lens…life does has it perks, but boy am I missing that lens. ~ Julz

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Spring in the back garden

Playing in the backyard in sunny Spring afternoon, I had a pair of crows come to visit, who took a great interest in the dogs and the dogs them. Also had some more Rainbow Lorikeets. I loved the light and the sense of just being at peace and one with the garden, the birds and…

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Spring Outings – Frog Hollows Part 3

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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