Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

TWO(?!) Minutes with Some Lorikeets? Parrots? Birds. #RegularRandom

Happy Sunday!

Welcome to RegularRandom, if you would like to join in, here’s what we do:

  • choose an object or scene
  • spend just 5 minutes shooting it, trying to be creative with angles and light and composition
  • post your photos with the tag regularrandom
  • pingback to this post so that we can see your results!

For this week, I’ve gone back to my trip to Lorne in November. I’ve wanted to share these photos for some time. I love the reactions of the people. I’m not going to explain any further, I think they speak for themselves:

This was a lot of fun to watch and all took place within one minute and forty seconds!

x desleyjane

Posted

in

by

desleyjane

Tags:

, , , , , , , , , , ,

Comments

21 responses to “TWO(?!) Minutes with Some Lorikeets? Parrots? Birds. #RegularRandom”

  1. RegularRandom: Five minutes with a sand bank | snippetsandsnaps

    […] It’s too easy for an idea to become an obsession. That’s what’s happened with RegularRandom, the challenge on DesleyJane’s blog to spend five minutes photographing an object. For my […]

    Like

    Reply
  2. morselsandscraps Avatar
    morselsandscraps

    What a fantastic collection of birds and people. I chose something a bit less colourful and animal which I published and now can’t find!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      I found it! You pinged it back to me! I just left you a comment 😊😊
      And thank you – yes so many people excited about the birds. I love that they were so comfortable perching on heads and cameras.

      Like

      Reply
  3. Heyjude Avatar
    Heyjude

    Fabulous photos DJ, but are these really Lorikeets? I have photos of rainbow ones that are a lot smaller and different colours (blue heads). Of course you might get lots of different species of Lorikeets. These birds look like King Parrots to me, but what do I know! You are the Australian after all!!
    😀 😀

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      Thanks Jude. Actually I’m not sure but I think you’re right. I don’t even know what possessed me to say lorikeets. I’ve just done a bit of reading and it seems you can only tell a lorikeet by its “brush tongue” which they use to eat honey and nectar. These were definitely eating seeds so they may in fact be parakeets or indeed small parrots.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply
  4. Su Leslie Avatar
    Su Leslie

    Lovely collection of shots. Cool idea to use something so spontaneous (and fast-moving) for the challenge.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      Thanks Su. I didn’t plan it when I took the shots but I think I will try to find a similar situation for another week.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply
      1. Su Leslie Avatar
        Su Leslie

        🙂 It made me wish the challenge had been running when I went to the Birds of Prey Trust last year. I had some great photos from that — and I am quite shameless about pinching good ideas to use in my own blog. 🙂

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply
        1. desleyjane Avatar
          desleyjane

          Oh use it next week! Mine was from my trip to Lorne in February. I just went through and found shots that were within a 5 minute (actually in this case 2 minute) period. A bit of cheating maybe but hey, there are no prizes 😜

          Liked by 1 person

          Reply
  5. Regular Random: five minutes with my knitting | Zimmerbitch

    […] love the colours in this wool, and enjoyed taking five minutes out to capture a few images for Five Minutes of Random (the RegularRandom challenge), a weekly photo challenge hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a […]

    Like

    Reply
  6. Still life in nature.. – Captivate Me Avatar
    Still life in nature.. – Captivate Me

    […] ..and here are some images for regular random… […]

    Like

    Reply
  7. Spring Beauty - Island in the Net Avatar
    Spring Beauty – Island in the Net

    […] Regular Random, where I spend just a few minutes with a single subject or a frame, shooting from different angles, seeing how the light changes, all the while trying to interfere with the subject as little as possible. […]

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      Beautiful photos Khurt, such lovely details in these little beauties. I love using macro in this challenge, it’s a lot of fun. I couldn’t seem to comment on your actual post, hence me commenting here. I will look again when I’m at my desk. Thanks so much for joining the challenge!

      Like

      Reply
  8. Miss Gentileschi Avatar
    Miss Gentileschi

    Ohh! This is so much fun to watch! And your shots are fabulous! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      Oh thank you! It’s a really fun experiment to allow yourself just five minutes to shoot a scene. It makes you really think about your prep before you start. This particular one was a very happy accident.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply
      1. Miss Gentileschi Avatar
        Miss Gentileschi

        It sounds definitely challenging. A bit like 5 minute sketching or 15 minutes meals 😉

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply
        1. desleyjane Avatar
          desleyjane

          Exactly. It really makes you focus, if you’ll pardon the pun 😉

          Liked by 1 person

          Reply
          1. Miss Gentileschi Avatar
            Miss Gentileschi

            As I’m fond of puns, I pardon any of them 😉

            Like

            Reply
  9. Regular Random – Lemonade – Photography in Pearls

    […] Check out Desley’s site:  https://musingsofafrequentflyingscientist.com/2017/04/02/two-minutes-with-some-lorikeets-regularrand… […]

    Like

    Reply
  10. feathersofivoryandazure Avatar
    feathersofivoryandazure

    There king parrots, red and green are male, female are more green.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply
    1. desleyjane Avatar
      desleyjane

      Thank you!!!! That’s excellent.

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

I’d love to hear from you!