I paid a visit last Friday to one of my favourite places, Grant’s Picnic Ground, which is only around 10 mins drive from my home and halfway between my daughter’s and my homes. So I will often drop in there after I’ve been visiting Melanie. That day there were quite a few kookaburras hanging around…
Stock Photograpy VII
Just another tip for you. I was checking my stats at the individual sites to see if any more sales were generated and noticed I still had some pending files at some of the stock sites. Even though iSyndica submits to the sites, not all the sites accept the photos straight away. Some of them…
Maa, our sheep
Maa came with the property when we bought our new home last year. I don’t know if she used to bleat a lot for the previous owners but she certainly does for us. I don’t really remember her doing that when we came to look at the house. Seems she’s always wanting company and always…
Kookaburra in our garden
We have a family of kookaburras living on our property. I’ve been occasionally throwing out strips of beef and they love it. Here’s one on the ground with some meat and then getting ready to launch itself into flight again.
Australian King Parrots
We have a couple of feeders in our park. One hanging off the pergola and another off an oak tree. After I put this one up and started to put seed out we had Australian King Parrots pay us a visit. They hadn’t been here before then although I knew they visited a place across…
Old Camelia bush
We have a very old camelia bush in our backyard. It’s more like a tree and is heavily laden with flowers at the moment.
Thanks Dad Photo Competition
The national (Australia) Thanks Dad Photo Competition is on. This is the brainchild of 3 men, Chris Hawke, Michael Hawton and Greg Schlieman who have all been involved in men’s welfare issues and who wanted to bring positive images of Australian fathers to the attention of us all. There is so much ‘bad news’ about…
Another view
Here’s another view of that pergola. It is a pleasant place to sit during the day and watch the bird life, or listen to it. The cats like to come and sit with me in there too.
Protea in flower
I’m loving discovering all of the flowers on our still new property. We’ve been here almost 9 months and the winter flowers are now out. This is a protea.
Submitting to Stock Photo Sites VI
Thought I’d give another update. Well, I’ve got some photos that have now sold several times over. So it’s starting to pick up. Time for me to upload more images and keep building my stock. Interesting though, that I heard from yet another stock agency overnight. I’d loaded images to them weeks ago and had…
Project 52
I’m participating in a couple of photography projects this year. One is Project 52, taking a photo of the same thing each week. It can be at different angles and at different times of the year. I selected the pergola in our park as the subject and have seen the surrounding bushes and wisteria change. …
The cheeky Currawong
These birds are almost the size of our crows, or ravens. A very dark grey, almost black with the distinctive white strip on their wings. They have an unusual call that travels long distances. The lilly pilly tree is heavily laden with berries and they love them. But I am sure they keep flying over…