Mushrooms photograph
Photography

Mushrooms

Mushrooms growing wild in a local nature reserve. Photograph taken on the Panasonic DMC-FZ1 digital camera.

Parrot
Photography

Parrot in the aviary at Queens Park

I find the aviary in Queens Park—Ipswich, Australia—to be a bittersweet experience. It’s good to see so many species of birds in trees and with flowing waterways inside a zone that keeps them predator-free. It’s also sad to think of these birds not flying outside allowing them to spread their wings for hours on end.

Either way, I’d never have managed this close-up photograph of a parrot without the aviary access. Photograph taken on a Panasonic digital camera which tried to be somewhere between a simple point-and-click and a DSLR.

Kookaburra
Photography

Kookaburra on the Sunshine Coast

On a Christmas morning, I managed to capture a kookaburra in a tree in our family’s back yard. Unfortunately, I do not recall the camera make or model for this photograph.

Bee vs. Ant
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Bee vs. ant on a wheelie bin

To this day—it doesn’t matter when you read this—this photograph remains as one of my favourite photographs. I was sitting on my own front deck stairs with my Canon SLR—which I’m still convinced was an AE-1—when I noticed a bee on the wheelie bin beside me. The bee appeared to be struggling.

As my eye sight hasn’t been the best up close for a few years now, I used the camera’s telescopic lens to see the bee in greater detail.

The bee had an ant on his leg and the ant refused to let go. I still don’t know how or why, but I decided to try and gently separate bee from ant. I did just that without killing either animal. Right after I captured this photograph to film forever.