Glenn_Smith

Always good to find Australia's largest Owl the Powerful Owl, in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan. There not that frequent a visitor to the gardens, but there was one there today, this one .Very convenient as I had a bird photography …

AS you can see shot in a reasonbly bright location, just a matter of droppping the exposure in manual mode and aplying light from the two sources to suit your taste. This was growing on the bark pathway so luck no one had placed a foot on this one …

Bit of rain out this way this week so the Australian Botanic Gardens, at Mount Annan were alive with Mushrooms today. Got a great collection, while out scouting for tomorrows bird photography work shop there, looks like going to be a small group of …

> Sounds good @Moose408 glad to have the help. Yes a same to see the Arcanum come to an end it seemed to show promise, the idea was good. As you say maybe we can get something like that going here as part of this, might be like a stage two, with …

Certainly something down the track @apm , but also something I'll have to put in a bit of time with first, not one I do to much with, but have at the odd time.

Plenty of great ideas coming together here, a few questions as well. To answer some of the questions, I think each month should be a stand-alone Tutorial on a subject. Starting at the very basics and then progressing along, to advanced. Being …

Ok some great ideas coming here, certainly think the idea of covering phones is a good one and I’ll include that, I do actually cover some of that in my actual workshops as just about everyone has one so definitely will include that. I’ll go throu …

Ok this idea came from @Chris , indirectly when he said if he was in the Land of Oz down under he would come along to one of my bird photography workshops, Not that Chris probably needs any help from what I’ve seen. But it got me thinking, how …

@RussP these are all shot in the gardens at Mount Annan, near Campbelltown so still part of Sydney, great place to practice bird photography if your that way inclined. Good to hear you got your Fairy Wrens back. We use to have some at my parents …

hmmm maybe we should see about how to get one running here. Maybe with weekly assignments etc. each week a new topic and stretching things a little. I feel an idea coming along here. Now the question is how, a conversation or a panel or a …

Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) on of the many Cuckoos that visit the Australian Botanic Gardens, At Mount Annan South West of Sydney. One of the 148 Birds I've captured not as an image within the gardens, only 38 more to find. Slowly getting …

Wet weekend here, So didn't manage to get out wiht the cameras this weekend, today we had 55mm of rain here, Very welcome rain but enough to prevent me getting out and shooting this time. Thou may get an opertunity tomorrow when I get home as there …

Scarlet Honeyeater (Myzomela sanguinolenta) in the Australian Botanic Gardens, Mount Annan south west of Sydney from last weekend feeding on a Melicope elleryana (pink-flowered doughwood, Saruwa) Hoping that will still be in flower for the next few …

Not as fancy as you think. One brown gel on the right that’s all. But then I play with white balance to bring back the brown which in turn turns the shadows blue. The green was the grass. So only one gel the second speedlite was ungeled I’ve used …

My closing thoughts. 1. What was good about the workshop? It was good to see how everyone joined in and gave great feedback and ideas. Always interesting to see why everyone made their way to Cake and what they want to get out of it. Agree with …

This weeks image is one from last week, as I didn’t find any this week, I did look but still a bit on the hot side here even thou we're supposed to be moving into Autumn here. Temps still above 30 Deg C here. This one was taken in another Botanical …

Yes it gets like that @Chris all of a sudden you start to see them everywhere and wonder were they always there and I'm only just noticing them now or are they really just appearing now. nice shot, nice and low to show of the gills. water droplets …

Plenty of great ideas coming through in this panel, at the close of the panel maybe a sumary of some of the ideas in point from collected from the various posts as a closing coment maybe handy. Certainly lots of great points on how to make your …

> Great Idea @apm, just went in to edit the topic as you suggested to add "photography" but I found it was already there in the list, Not sure if you added it in if so thanks, if not looks like I already did, I don't remember that far back. I've …

Springs long gone down here Autumn is on the way thou you wouldn't know it Temperatures are still above teh 30 Deg C mark most days here still. Some flowers are still out but not like Spring, As is usually the Case down here when spring is on up …

Yes @Ravi I agree once you make that first responce and some one responds to your comment with another not just a thumbs up, your away. You'll be resonding again. Most people on these places are friendly and willing to share ideas. I've found Cake …

Thanks @apm for the invite my first panel. Like Ravi I’m a Google+ Refugee. In google plus I was a Moderator for the Canon EOS 60D Community where I tried to mentor anyone that was interesting in growing their photography, I also participate in …

I’d say the keel has more than 50% of the weight back to your actual question more like 70% but that’s a rough guess. But the boat will be constructed as light as possible and weight only added to counter act the tilting as low as it can be.

Fun mathematics here. Putting it in its simplest form it’s to do with balance. The wind puts pressure on the sail trying to tilt the vessel over. The keel surface area adds resistance to the initial movement over and the weight in the keel is the …

Bit of Photochopping in this one, but effective I think, Always good when they look a bit relaisitic and has people wondering, this shot certainly had a lot of people asking how they missed these two, at Sydneys Vivid last year, (For those not …