Posted in Birding, Photography on May 16th, 2012
….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 [...]
Posted in Photography on Aug 3rd, 2011
It all started with a big old folding Kodak Brownie camera probably manufactured in the late 1920s or early ’30s, that I carried up into the hills on my first bush trips with cousin Bill. It took the long obsolete 116 film, and had a worn bellows that tended to let in light, spoiling some [...]
A blog about the natural world of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Birds, insects, wildflowers, and anything else that poses for the camera.