Whale watching
on a whale watching tour with Mills Charters it seemed a pretty rough day for this land lubber but worth it to get a few glimpses of the whales 🙂
Photography from Western Australia and beyond
on a whale watching tour with Mills Charters it seemed a pretty rough day for this land lubber but worth it to get a few glimpses of the whales 🙂
an elephant seal that spent a few day on the sand at Sorrento Beach (Perth) a young adult or teenager catching a bit of sunshine, but not a lot of peace and quiet a few thousand people showed up to see what is a very infrequent visitor to our shores this is a 6 photo …
for some reason a sub adult Southern elephant seal has decided to make Sorrento beach, Perth, its home for a while. They, as far as I know, have never come to Perth before, although we do get other seals and sea lions. Tasmania I think is a close as they normally get As you can …
fireworks on Australia Day 26th January 2014. taken from near Langley park looking across the Swan River, Perth WA Pentax 10mm fisheye lens
A rainbow bee eater, just having left the nest the best photo so far of one in flight that I have taken I need much faster reflexes Carine lake (swamp, wetland) Pentax 300mm lens
a long exposure taken out the back of “The Convent” bed and breakfast, in Dalwallinu looking South to the Great northern highway the ground is lit by flood light Pentax 10-17 fisheye lens the bright light is trucks with all lights blazing heading into town
a pair of rainbow bee eaters at Carine swamp/lake a test photo by prefocusing on a branch where they liked to land and using a remote to fire the shutter, with the camera on a tripod, so no looking through the eye piece YAY 🙂
2013 is the 50th Birthday of the EH Holden, 1963 – 1965 and the EH Holden car club of WA put on a car show “birthday party” on the South Perth foreshore, it also included the earlier model EJ cars too one of the most popular Holdens, and I am not saying that because I …
At this years royal show there was a heritage section, and part of it was a group of blacksmiths. It brought back some memories of metalwork at school and seeing how many of the old tools I could remember taken using my old manual 50mm f1.7 lens
2013 Perth Royal show Horsepower is an exhilarating display of horsemanship using coloured led’s in the dark This one is lit by the flare the rider is carrying on the flag pole Pentax 80-320 zoom, 1/25 at f6.3 lucky shot lol want to see more?
WA Scale Model Expo, Cannington One of the entries in this years model making competition, I decided it may look better in a photo taken in the Porongurups, rather than against the grey wall of the hall Anyone any idea who this is? Saber from Fate/stay night? More Scale model expo photos here
Noble falls, a small waterfall east of Perth after Winter rains a slow shutter speed and Pentax fisheye a 3 photo stitch using Microsoft ice a larger vesrsion is here
Noble falls after a bit of rain. tried the slow shutter speed method with my 300mm lens and no tripod, used a convenient rock instead and the 2 second shutter delay
The sun sets on the West coast disappearing into the Indian ocean
white cheeked honeyeater getting nectar from a silver princess flower in my garden
A white tailed black cockatoo feasting on a firewood banksia cone whilst sitting on my bull banksia in Winter I counted about 20 of them going through my trees, pruning as they went. I picked up some banksia flowers they snipped off and put them in a vase They do a a fair amount of …
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