Lunch

Superb Fairy Wren with lunch in his beak

Grey Fantail looking for his grub but keeping an eye on me all the same.

Little Birds

I have been trying to capture images of the Superb Fairy Wren (Malurus cyaneus) for a little while now. Getting close was the problem - the lens is never long enough and these little birds move so quick.

Well I solved some of the problem, I purchased myself a 300mm prime lens and a 1.4 teleconverter giving me a combined focal distance of 672 mm - long enough most of the time. Now the problem is holding the lens still enough and getting a fast enough shutter speed to get the image sharp.

Pines at Victor ....

.... Harbour, South Australia, that is.

Pines at Victor

Playing with the "Buzz" plug-in for Photoshop.

Grounded

An abandoned fishing boat, Pondalowie Bay, South Australia, June long week end 2007.

"grounded"

This old fishing boat was high and dry and seemed to be abandoned. A 3 shot HDR processed in Photomatix. I like the saturated blues of the sky in this one.

"the deck"

Not an HDR image, just a little detail of the deck of the boat.

Blue

"Summer Blues"

"Blue Horizon"

"Cool Blue"

I used the colour temperature in the raw converter in Photoshop to alter the tones of the images to blue.