Glenn_Smith

Nice find. Yes not always easy to find in Summer especially here when we hit mid 40s C. Winter here now most mornings are around 2 to 6 deg C. With the occasional-2 very occasional and daytime upto 18-23 deg so still some about to find, thou a bit …

Saturdays always seem to come around fast, so another Mushroom shot for the start of the weekend. Have good one everyone.

More Mushrooms from the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, South west of Sydney. Always gun seeing what I can find there each week.

Here's one fro a few years ago now jsut happened to have my Camera at work one day when as I was about to leave the sky put on this show. Good thing I also had my tripod for this one.

Todays Miushroom shot taken this morning in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, Plenty to choose from today few days of light rain through out the week, certainly helped, though we still need plenty more out this way. The local dam that …

Two things attract me to a conversation, a title that has an interest to me, not just a catchy title but one that actually has an interest to me. Second one is a conversation with a geat image to attract me to dig further.

Another Fantasy Mushroom shot from the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan. Two off camera speedlites, taken in normal daylight. Last Sunday I gave a mushroom photography presentation at the Sydney Photogrpahy Expo, from the feedback I got went …

This week’s shot a different form of Fungi. There is no end to the variations this stuff comes in. There were growing out of an old log used as a path border in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, Southwest of Sydney. Getting ready here …

And this weeks behind the scenes shot.

Todays Mushroom shot taken in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, South west of Sydney. Bit of rain mid week bought the mushrooms up again so another good week for mushrooms today.

Another trick for timing of bird photography is to know where the birds are going to be. So if you know where there favourite food source or perment water is hand around there and wait, they will eventualy show up, you can be all set up exposure …

@Vilen The 400 would be the mimimum I'd recomend, it will get you a lot closer than the 200mm, sigma make 150 to 600 in Sony mounts, still well under the 500mm, Canons 500 and 600 primes are both well up there in price but oneday the 600 prime wil …

https://www.cake.co/conversations/x9h6pv2/birds-of-the-australian-botanic-gardens/mKml7Mf If you scroll through this feed of mine about two thirds down I've a shot of my set up, Canon 7DmkII, sigma 150-600mm Sports on a gimbal head, gimbal heads …

A pair of Welcome Swallows having a dog fight over the lake at sunset in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan, South west of Sydney.

Great choice to get into bird photography, always fun and all sorts of photography to choose form, Bird Portraiture (The bird on a stick photo), Bird Action shots, (Birds doing something with movement, landing etc like below) and Birds in flight. …

if you need any further pushing all my birding shots are with a sigma 150-600 the sports version so weather sealed, not light thou. But does a nice job. Only issue is at 600 it’s 6,4 so not the brightest lens but compared to a canon (which I’ll end …

I've been using the Imac 5K i7 for a few years now currently running Mojave, Lightroom and Photoshop which I need for Focus Stacking so a bit of processing going on there stacking 20 plus images, No issues here, I've got over 244,000 images …

Mushrooms and Fungi are important in the breaking down of the undergrowth, but what breaks down the fungi, more fungi, These Leratiomyces ceres are being attacked by a form of Spinellus fusiger. Taken in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan …

The setup shot and actual lighting conditions for the shot above.

This ones shot this afternoon in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan. Good day out for Mushroom finds today, several great subjects found today, so plenty up my sleeve for says I don't find any. As always best viewed large.

This weeks Shroom shot. Some times you get a shot that just comes out magical when printed, this is one of those shots, the highlights in the front edge of these almost glows in a print of this image, really happy with how this one prints out. …

@Keenan initial processing in Lightroom, then bought into photoshop, duplicate the layer, then into Topaz impressions via photoshop, apply the template I like adjust the many sliders as I prefer adjust the strength apply a texture then back into …

Yesterdays effort, a Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan yesterday morning then a bit of post processing last night and the final result so far. (Best viewed large.)

Ok back to normal now, after the last few weeks building frames, printing images, nd mounting them, and last Sunday finally hung them in the local Art Cafe, another three weeks to go, so far plenty of great feedback coming back. So managed to get …

Each year the Botanic Gardens in Sydney run a competition for Botanic drawings, they exhibit them in my local botanic gardens each year the works are amazing, there are some of them in the link …