Macro Friday, Mellow Yellow Monday & Blue Monday

These wild Lorakeets were feeding on a feast of sunflower seeds on the driveway. Over 45 came every evening, along with a couple of Rozellas, Pigeons and some cheeky Cockatoos. They were amazing to feed and amazing to photograph too.

I'm linking up to Macro Friday, Mellow Yellow Monday and Blue Monday.

Macro Friday

This is one of my beautiful christmas tree ornaments. I've loved having my macro lens this year to capture all the christmas beauty.

Macro Friday

I used my macro lens to capture the sunlight coming through the new spring leafs on the oak tree and discovered there was a sweet little sparrow sitting there. I love how the macro lens is able to capture him as well as the beauty of the leafs. Loooooooovely :)

Also linking up to Macro Friday at http://www.blogingfrombolivia.blogspot.com/

Macro Friday

Photo challenges have challenged me to become more creative (if that was possible) and to photography items and use styles and techniques that I normally wouldn't use. For another challenge I needed to find something orange to photograph.

Now, I hate the colour orange, which is really annoying because that's the main colour of the company I work for, anyway I digress. . . I was sure that the beautiful russian babushka (sp?) dolls had an orange one in the middle.

I try to use natural light whenever possible, so I set up the dolls outside on the path where I discovered how beautiful and colourful they all are. This is the very first shot I took. I did a lot more macro shots of individual dolls and of the set, but this one shows all the beautiful colours and the contrasting lines of the dolls versus the path. And, I love that it's focal point is the littlest doll - so cute!

I'm linking this photo up to Macro Friday as well. For more beautiful Macro shots from talented photographers around the world, check out http://www.bloggingfrombolivia.com/

Macro Friday

This is my first entry into a photo challenge - very exciting.

I took this photo out in the rock pools at Titahi Bay Beach. It was mostly sticks and rocks, but I found this beautiful coral like object that was a nice breath of fresh colour.