I'll be donning camo gear any day now - I'm thinking mud smears on the face and feathers in the ears, even a hat covered with twigs (perhaps a real nest?). Call me a dag, but I could totally get into wildlife photography, especially birds! It's biggest draw back is time. My family were rather patient the day I dragged them along for these shots, but they can only take so much. I guess that's the other drawback of animal photography...it's really a solo pursuit!
These magnificent birds were soaring off the cliffs at Rocky Point a few weekends ago. The wind was blowing a gale which made it challenging to hold the camera still. I don't like heights or cliffs and I wasn't dressed for lying on the ground. Having said all that, I'm busting to do it all over again. The larger bird is Norfolk's striking Red-Tailed Tropic bird. The smaller graceful birds are White Terns. I've managed to capture a Kingfisher, an Emerald Dove and a Grey Fantail in recent days, but they aren't close-ups and I'm determined to get better photos!
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Oh wow. They are amazing! Beautiful colours in that first series, just lovely xx
I can see why your photos are amazing.
These photos are absolutely stunning … well done.
xx
Hi Michelle, I just read your comment on one of the other weekly stills blogs about your quilting/patchwork squares not meeting up. The biggest tip I can give you is to pin things right in the joins. This is really hard to explain without you being in front of me but I'll give it a go. Say you are doing squares and you join 5 squares together and then you have another set of 5 squares which you join together. If they weren't squares, you would put the fabric right sides together and just sew your seams however you have one piece of fabric (made up of 5 squares) and another piece of fabric (made up of 5 squares). Lay one set on the table right side up and have the other set on top right side down. Now with pins you need to pin directly through the very centre of the joins on the top piece through to the very centre of the bottom piece. So imagine a sandwich...bottom bit of bread - air then top bit of bread. So you are going to hold your top piece of fabric (right sides down) and pin through your seam and then you are going to pick up the bottom piece of fabric and poke that pin (which is already through the top one) right into the seam of the bottom piece. Then you are going to take that pin up through the fabric so that it secures it together. The main thing is that the pin is going exactly through all those layers exactly where you want it to go then you can sew them together. I leave my pins in and you should be able to sew straight over them (you want long tin quilting pins) for this purpose, not normal pins. It might sound all double dutch but that's the best way I can explain it. If you don't use a pin and stab it directly through both bits of fabric yourself you will never have any corners line up. This may or may not help you but once I used this method I've always been able to get mine exactly perfect. It's not hard but it might be hard to work out what I'm trying to say by this message. Good luck. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia
Wow. These are really beautiful and captivating images. Go Michelle!
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