Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

Category: Photography

  • Feathers of Hope

    Feathers of Hope

    Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all -Emily Dickinson Hope is something that we all need right now… For Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic. x desleyjane

  • Of Wasps and Bees

    Of Wasps and Bees

    I found this little guy on my windowsill and transferred him to my white side table. A simple process you might think, but I refused to touch it and was too lazy to get up so I used my lens cap instead. Which wasn’t really appropriate but it worked eventually. I thought it was a…

  • Hi Biscus! How are ya?

    Hi Biscus! How are ya?

    I was wandering around my backyard one afternoon when I spotted this hibiscus flower. I don’t know where there is a hibiscus plant nearby, I certainly don’t have one, but there it was, already cut and waiting to be photographed. I took it to my glass top table to get some shots.  I’ve had an…

  • Fiery Victory

    For The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Victory  :  In your photo this week, focus on the win, the victory. I struggled with this one. While I’ve definitely had victories, I can’t say I’ve really photographed them. This is kind of a silly one, but I love the photos that came out of it. We…

  • Be Generous With Empty Space

    For PerelinColors Tech of the Month in Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic – make use of negative space. I am in love with negative space, have so many photos which I consider to be quite minimal and “full” of empty space. Here is one that I took a couple of weeks ago. I just wanted to catch this little…

  • WOW. A whole year!

    So it’s been over one year since I registered my WordPress site. And what a year it is has been. I started my blog predominantly as a way to share my photography and find other photographers like me who are keen to learn and share. I was very lucky to find the Photography 101 Course…

  • iPhriday – Homemade Nutella?

    I’m joining Lisa at GrayDaysandCoffee and posting an iPhone photo on a Friday. I think it’s a neat idea and I will try to post each week. If you want to join in (any phone of course), just use the tag iPhriday. Here’s a shot of some homemade Nutella made by Monsieur Truffle at a cafe called…

  • Duotone, and of course one of them is pink!

    From my last Changing Seasons shoot. I love this walkway (called The Arbour) and I love the gorgeous pink bougainvillea covering it. In Lightroom, I reduced the saturation on all the colours except Purple and Magenta. There were a couple of people in the background also wearing some pinky colours, so I used the brush…

  • Dahlias are my favourite flower.

    It’s official. I love these flowers. These miniatures below really take my fancy and these are planted in pots and in my garden under the shade of a bottlebrush tree.  I also took some progressive growth photos of my white dahlia here. For Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic and for Nalinki at Angles and Views Flowers Over…

  • Beautiful Brisbane – November 2015 (monochrome)

    Here is another gallery for the Cardinal’s Changing Seasons Event. My first gallery of colour shots can be seen here. There’s something about the black and white ones that really appeals to me, particularly shots with people and shots at night. As usual, Olympus OMD EM5 with 17mm or 60mm lens, handheld, wandering my city,…

  • After the Storm

    As some of you know, we’ve had a very stormy few weeks in Brisbane. I managed to be out in one recently and was able to capture some great storm clouds coming over the city – you can see them here if you missed them. The days are hot, in the mid-30s (Celsius) and become…

  • Beautiful Brisbane – November 2015 (Colour)

    Well I managed to do another shoot for Cardinal Guzman’s The Changing Seasons event.  I have a feeling I might just make it to December as well 😉 Actually for this one I cheated and took these shots on October 31st. We are in Spring right now and I took these photos on a Saturday evening…