Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

Category: Photography

  • Macro Garden Series – 11

    Macro Garden Series – 11

    More intricately detailed flowers from the garden – nature at her finest.   Shot at Wilson Botanic Park with my Olympus OMD EM5 with my 60mm (120mm equivalent) macro lens. x desleyjane

  • Melbourne Streets 9

    Melbourne Streets 9

    I found various crevices and secret chambers on our walk. With the walls all intricately painted, your eye doesn’t immediately see these little spaces. IGers Melbourne InstaMeet March 2016. x desleyjane

  • Macro Garden Series – 10

    Macro Garden Series – 10

    You should have seen me trying to get my finger in this shot to show scale. Typical balancing act – I was on the edge of a dropoff, shooting handheld (because I couldn’t be bothered carrying my tripod). The little receptacle (thank you Wikipedia) is the part that used to hold the petals of the…

  • Melbourne Streets 8

    Melbourne Streets 8

    IGers Melbourne InstaMeet March 2016. x desleyjane

  • Macro Garden Series – 9

    Macro Garden Series – 9

    I thought this was a fungus or lichen growing on this tree trunk, but had to do some research to be sure. It is a Bracket Fungus, and these are the fruiting bodies of the fungus – people sometimes call them conks apparently. While they look like mushrooms and you’d expect them to be soft,…

  • Melbourne Streets 7

    Melbourne Streets 7

    IGers Melbourne InstaMeet March 2016 The group contained a few people who were happy to pose for various shots and this guy was doing that for a group up on top of this heavily-graffiti’ed parking structure. I was lucky enough to catch him in the act. x desleyjane

  • Macro Garden Series – 8

    Macro Garden Series – 8

    One of the best tips for macro photography is to get on the same plane as the subject. What I mean is – try not to shoot from above or below the subject. This makes for some interesting angles for the handheld shooter, I’m sure some of them are bonafide yoga poses 😀 The other tip is…

  • Retired Rower. 

    Retired Rower. 

    We came across this gentleman as we were walking along the bank of Albert Park Lake in South Melbourne. We asked if we could take his photo and he laughed at us. He said to tell everyone that he is the retired rower. I noticed his name on the canoe behind him so I looked…

  • Melbourne Streets 6

    Melbourne Streets 6

    I was so happy to find so many chances for macro shots on our walk through the very urban streets of Fitzroy and Carlton. In fact, I used my macro lens exclusively for the last two hours of the walk. I found this plant outside of the diner where we finished our walk. It was…

  • Admiration

    Admiration

    I’ve met a very cool group of people via the IGers Melbourne hashtag. Each month, we all get together to photographically investigate a particular area of the city. In April, the meetup coincided with Earth Day and became a world-wide InstaMeet (WWIM), where people from all over the world shared their images with the same…

  • iPhriday – Red Tram Rider

    iPhriday – Red Tram Rider

    On the tram on my way home from the April IGers Melbourne Instameet, this lady sat opposite me with her family and I liked her red coat. It wasn’t til I was playing around with editing that I noticed that her shoes, phone and necklace are also red! For Lisa’s iPhriday event where we share…

  • Macro Garden Series – 7

    Macro Garden Series – 7

    Another bright and intricate flower from the garden series. The colours were so vibrant. I was expecting to find bees on these flowers, but there weren’t any. Shot at Wilson Botanic Park with my Olympus OMD EM5 with my 60mm (120mm equivalent) macro lens. I think this is my last entry to Jude’s Macro in the…