Daisy, Daisy....

 I love the way macro photography allows the viewer to see the tiny intricate details in the smaller and simpler things in life...

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Eastern Water Dragon

This weekend we went to the 12th Brisbane Instameet at Roma Street Parklands. This Eastern Water Dragon was happy to pose for all of us.

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Macro Winter Poppies

I took these macros in July, when I borrowed my friends macro lens for a week. I love the tiny details you are able to capture; details unseen by the human eye.

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Black Swan Cygnet. Definitely not an ugly duckling!!

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Poppy beauty

I borrowed a friend's macro lens this week and I had a lot of fun!!! I'm in love... suffice to say, a macro lens is on my Christmas wish list. Here is one of my (many) favourite shots from this week.

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Autumn leaves in Winter

The fact we live in a sub-tropical climate means that, 18 days into Winter, many of the trees still think it's Autumn.

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Bees on Blooms

There is nothing I enjoy more than being out with my camera. I have a passion for landscapes, birds & insects. I'd love to own a macro lens some day but, when photographing insects I'm allergic to, my 55-250mm kit lens (aka stalker) does a great job.

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Autumn

My apologies to my followers for not responding to your lovely comments on my recent posts. I promise I will be back on deck & scouring through your wonderful blogs again shortly.

Losing one of my dear friend's children last Monday has taken it's toll on myself & my children.

I have struggled to find the joy I usually get from taking photos, even though my husband has taken me out on photography day trips to cheer me up. Editing my images has also been particularly difficult over the last week. The funeral is tomorrow (well today actually as it's 2am here) and I hope that the Celebration of his wonderful but short life tomorrow will bring some kind of closure.

Sorry for the seriousness of this post - most of my followers are used to my photography being the main theme of my blog. I leave you with some images I took a couple of weeks ago. This is Autumn in my sub tropical part of the world.

       

Bold As...

While out on an afternoon walk & feeding the ducks at Minnippi Parklands, this bold little Noisy Miner hopped along the rail beside me...

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Weekend Flowers & a Surprise

I ventured out into the backyard for some photographic inspiration. We only have ONE bush in the backyard (a Duranta) so I am not sure why I was searching for inspiration there, but I discovered a treasure by chance...

On closer inspection... a Blue Banded Bee (it's one of Australia's native bees)

A Blue Banded Bee-copter

I was very pleased with these captures - taken with my 55-250mm telephoto zoom lens  :)

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