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….photography that is, and especially in bird photography. Birds have a knack of keeping to the shade, usually with their backs to the camera causing the person behind the lens to shrug in frustration. Sometimes though it’s not a bad thing, the softness of the light and other factors can give pleasing results. With the moon in perigee I took a few shots, and to get the proper exposure I dialled in minus 2.3 stops. The next day I took a couple of shots of a king parrot in poor light, and of course forgot to reset the exposure compensation to zero, resulting in grossly under exposed images. Nowadays though I have the camera set to take raw files, and after opening them in Corel Aftershot Pro I adjusted the exposure to produce a couple of what I think are very nice images.

king parrot


king parrot

On another gloomy day a Satin Bowerbird paused in the angophora and the resulting photographs also had a certain quality of subtlety to them. A feeding table is below the angophora, that accounts for all the claw marks in the bark, it’s a popular perching spot. All shots were taken hand held without the benefit of an image stabilised lens.

bowerbird


bowerbird


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Callistemon capers.

What a magnet for birds has been the second flowering of the garden callistemons, especially the one above the birdbath. Eastern Spinebills have been the most persistent nectar feeders, and probably the hardest to photograph successfully due to their constant rapid movements. Persistence pays off however and I managed a couple of a nice mature bird. Note the pollen on the bill in the second photo, great little pollinators.

eastern spinebill


eastern spinebill

New Hollands are back in the garden too, we used to have them breeding year round for many years, but then they deserted us until their recent reappearance.

new holland

The Crimson Rosellas also like a taste of nectar, but they have a vandalistic habit of snipping off a whole flower spike, sampling a few individual flowers then dropping it to take another. The ground under the shrubs can be littered with flower spikes, we’ve renamed them Criminal Rosellas…..

criminal rosella


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