Textures on wheels

On a weekend to Wallaroo, South Australia, I come across this old railway carriage. The graffiti and paint combined with natural wear and tear created a myriad of textures.

Changing Seasons - Autumn Colours

"Heaven is under our feet"

It is mid May here (Adelaide, South Australia) and the season is changing from summer to autumn and almost winter.

I love the colours of the leaves as the cool winds blow and leaves change from green to gold and reds to rusty brown and all shades in between.

I read "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads" somewhere and it rings oh so true this time of year.

Autumn Red

Autumn colours as the leaves turn to red in the Adelaide hills.

Story Boards

Trying some storyboard techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop. I used a couple of Kim Klasson's templates for CS and one of my own. Not really storyboards in the true sense of the word - rather a collection of like images.

I found lightroom a little cumbersome and not able to vary the size of the actual image in the box.

Once I understood about vector masking the process in photoshop seemed quite quick.

Refining the look and getting the boxes to look balanced might be another problem.

Lunch

Superb Fairy Wren with lunch in his beak

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

Olde Rose

Musk Lorikeet

A Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna) very prevalent around the south and south eastern states of Australia

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.

Montage

I tried my hand at a few montages:

The Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage

Broken Dreams

Living in the 70's

A combination of images and textures using layers in Photoshop.