Around Home – Banyule Flats
Photographing around home has to be a good thing and for me that includes a place called Banyule Flats. It is a quick walk away from me.
Favourite flowers – Dahlias
When you love macro photography, especially when photographing flowers we get ones that we love or become our favourite. For me, mine would have to be dahlias.
The show is over
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is over for the year and now I have 100’s of photos that I will need to sort through. Once that is done I can work out which […]
MIFGS – Display Gardens
Another part of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) are all the display gardens. There are quite a few and it is lovely to look at them and dream about having something like […]
MIFGS – Struman macro lens
One of the things that I love about visiting the MIFGS each year is catching up with the Struman Optics team and their lenses. This year I’ve been playing with a new macro lens for […]
MIFGS – Opening day
Yesterday was the first day of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and opening day was massive. There were so many people there.
Flower and Garden Show last year
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show for 2019 starts tomorrow, so I thought it might be nice to look back on some photos from last year.
My Garden – A dahlia
After yesterday’s post it seemed like a nice idea to show you a flower from my garden. This is one of my dahlias. It is growing well.
Weekend Wanderings – High Tea
This afternoon my weekend wanderings took me to a place in Brunswick called Mary Eats Cake. We were there to try out their high tea.
Something different from the Blue Lotus Gardens
Finally, got out again today to the Blue Lotus Water Gardens. It is nice to get another visit in, though many of the water lilies are done, but we did manage to get something different.
Silent Sunday – A view of Melbourne
A quiet day today and just one photo for you. For my silent Sunday post, I wanted to show you a view of Melbourne that I really like.
2019 International Women’s Day
Last night I had to go out of my comfort zone and do a talk. Actually more a speech for the Melbourne Camera Club. They asked me to do a talk on Women and photography. […]
Monochrome Wednesday – Challenging myself
This is going to look familiar, but this is more a challenge for myself now. I did stop Monochrome Madness a while ago, but it seems it has been missed, so I am back with […]
Reassessing an image from the Docklands
One of the things I really enjoy about going back through my archives is reassessing my images and thinking how I would do them now. One of those is an image from the Docklands taken […]
2019 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
It is now March and for me, that means it is the lead up to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. I have been going for a few years now. It is always a […]
Looking over the city at sunrise
You know one of the main reasons I became a member of the Eureka Skydeck was so I would know when they did their sunrise events. It is fantastic looking over the city at sunrise. […]
To share or not to share is a big decision
Sharing photos with the world, or your social media following can be quite scary. The question becomes to share or not to share? It is a big decision. What can you get out of it […]
Photo Challenge 12 – Cityscape
Here is the next photo challenge. We are up to the 12th one so far and this one is Cityscapes. A subject that I love.
Exploring New Images – Melbourne Experiments
Today I thought it might be interesting to look at some images. It is something I have missed doing. I hope you have missed them as well. Today we are going to look at two […]
Podcast Episode 015 – The Gear I Use
Whenever you see a group of photographers together they all start talking gear. It just seems to be something that people who share a passion do. So podcast episode 015 is my conversation about the […]