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Month: August 2016

Watching bees, or a meditation in seeing

Watching bees, or a meditation in seeing

I love photographing my bees.  I’m now on holiday for a week and it started with the most beautiful day on Saturday.  I spent a long time just photographing my bees, experimenting with different lens and post processing everything in Adobe Lightroom.    I use a Canon 7D camera and for each photograph I have listed the meta-data for the picture including lens.   I know I love to know how bees have been photographed as I trawl through my…

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Spring is coming – but not quite yet.

Spring is coming – but not quite yet.

  Our blossoms are confused.   It happens around this time every single year in Katoomba.  We are only a few days away from the official start of Spring, but it’s almost always a false start.   There are some very warm days for a week or so – then we get another very cold snap late September.   The true spring doesn’t really start until well into October.   Last week we had days that were upwards in the high teens,…

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