September - October 2016

It hasn't been a good month - I have been fighting pneumonia for three weeks, but I now think I am on the mend.

Have had a few photographic outings and I have also started reviewing some of the photos I took in Kenya in 2013 - seeing if I could improve them in post-processing.  This will be an ongoing project as there are over 1,000 in that folder.

Anyway - for this month ....

The first three days in Kenya were spent in Amboseli Park.  Amboseli is noted for its elephant herds and views of Mt Kilmanjaro (if the cloud clears).  Kibo camp was comfortable and only a short drive to the park entrance.

At the entrance to Kibo

Kibo Bar - Tusker beer for me and a G&T for Des

Less than 5 minutes from the Park Entrance

Waterbuck resting

One of two male lions

Cheetahs on the hunt

Fast forward to this month ....

Molly framed by the flying fox at Lake Ginninderra

A flooded backwater along Ginninderra Creek

Flooded Ginninderra Creek

Brush tail Possum watching Molly

Sunlight and WIllows

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo ripped into this branch to get the grub in the middle

Lake George - with water

Lucern Tree in bloom

Green and Gold - looking towards the Brindabellas near Uriarra

Curries Flat - Brindabella Range

Banksia cones with a pine cone

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at the seed tray.

Rainbow Lorikeets - these are a recent visitor to my garden.

August/September 2016

No 'out of town' adventures.  It has been a wet winter and beginning of spring, and a quite a few roads across NSW are closed by flooding or boggy conditions.

I have been out with the camera on those days that I can - mostly walking my normal route along Ginninderra Creek, with the occasional foray to other spots.  As always, I am looking to try new techniques with the camera and post processing.

We did a morning drive out through the Cotter - primarily to look for flowering wattles overhanging water.  I think we were a little early for the Cotter Valley, but found some along Paddy's River.

Cotter Dam Pumping Station

Wattle blooms and water

Kookaburra along G Creek

G Creek and willows greening

Superb Blue Wren

Lone wattle on the banks of G Creek

Crimson Rosellas bathing

G Creek reflections - the flood has removed a lot if the reeds

Yellow-rumped Thornbill foraging

Green and Gold

G Creek through the bare trees

G Creek

Golden Whistler and Golden Wattle

One gate open on Scrivenor Dam

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.  We see a lot more flocks of these magnificent birds looking for food

Flood debris

A frame within the frame - a bicycle underpass

Olive-backed Oriole

a macro of the $2 Olympic coin

July/August

Time flies.

Winter. Rain. Gardening. Walking Molly. Surgery.  This offering is close to home..

In winter undress - no sign of buds yet

With all the rain, G Creek has maintained a good flow

G Creek cascades

Ambulance on the Parkway

G Creek cascades

Crested Pigeon - keeps attacking its reflection in our window

G Creek

G Creek

Tidbinbilla Deep Space Radio Telescope

The magpie came for morning coffee

Reflections

Camera Drone in flight

Dunlop Pond 

Dunlop Pond

Tawny Frogmouth still make irregular appearances

Olive-backed Oriole

Quietly Through the reeds - Willows showing signs of spring

Locals keeping an eye on Molly