A Seal Of Approal

A young seal pup enjoying the afternoon sun

An unexpected breakfast guest

This grey butcher bird came in and watched me eat breakfast. I was amazed how at ease he was, even when a magpie tried to displace him from his perch on the balcony rail, he stayed put. He even waited for me to take a couple of photos (not a common habit of many wild birds)

Mushroom Pizza anyone?

(It's actually a toadstool)

Get Up Close

Don't ber afraid to getup close, most fungai don't bite!

Late of Afternoon Galah's

Grey on grey

the beach adopts it's winter berm

something you don't see every day

kangaroo tracks on the beach

low & wide

Approaching Alice Springs

After the Rains

The recent cyclones have bought considerable rian to the northern territorý's normally dry areas

Dusk in the outback

for photofriday topic :the road

How flat is flat?

Another road less traveled

The stuart highway,is a long link across the middle of australia. Most of path is a long way from anywhere, well this sign is not so far (around 100km) north of tennent creek

Taking over a New Habitat

These "hawks" where very busy every morning over the new open pit, being dug by Bootu Creek resources. They seemed to be eating the things attached to eat the hundreds of moths that where attracted to the lights at night. Checking an old copy of Neville Cayley's "What Bird is That?" I wasn't able to make a positive identification but they most closely resemble the fork-tailed kite (Milvus migrans affinis. also known as the black kite in europe and africa )

Sydney from the air

  

Getting the Colours right

A very significant issue, for digital photography, that you will soon discover when you get your first prints and compare them with the same images on your computer. The colours look different, often wildly different! Even on different screen there may be massive differences. There are lots of issues involved, colours are perceived differently when using a project light (eg computer screen & projectors) versus reflective method (printers, photographic paper). Professional photographers still love slides, for colour film work, the projected slide image is far more vibrant and “realistic” than a photo print because it uses additive colour scheme & projected light. Every input and output device has potentially different sensitivity to different wavelengths of light and therefore may capture or display different colour bias. Finally the human eye is more sensitive to colour differences rather than to absolute colours. So it is a subject as well as a complex set of technical issues. There have been a number of applications and utilities (including some that come with corel and adobe photo tool) but they can take a lot of setting up for different devices and “colour gamut” profiles (a set of colours that represent a colour space).

If you have an apple computer you could use the colour sync utility.

If you have a decent graphics card (most recent computers do have) and are running Microsoft’s XP, you might like to try out their color management tool . It is a new power tool and available free to all XP users, but you will have to go through Microsoft’s genuine windows component validation setup. The tool gets added to yoiur control panel and is easy to use, but make sure you read the READ.ME.htm that gets install with this powertool.

Patterns in the Wind

Trying to photograph the interesting patterns of sand blowing in the wind is not really suited to still photography, yet is was quiet amazing.

PS: It is very important that you clean your camera (the whole body) when it is out and exposed to the elements. Sand and salt are particular enemies of the delicate working of most camera

Patterns of Light.

The delicate patterns of light can be amazing, even with simple things like a glass of water in the sun. I move in close abd zoomed out to stretch the shadows diagonally across the frame. Sometimes the composition of the negative areas is as important as your main subject.

Photographing Ibis

I have been trying to capture the flocks of Ibis that fly over my place each night, this time of year. It has not proven easily. Firstly they are not so regular. Second they tend to leave the flying till its almost dark (so I am struggling with exposure times, if you look closely you will be able to see the "heat" noise blockness in the blue sky) and finally they fly fast (I have to pan with them to get any hope of an infocus image) and flap their wings a lot(the panning doesn't help and the wings are almost always blurred).