http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/ Mon, 21 May 2012 04:42:59 +0000 MyBB http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1195 Mon, 14 May 2012 23:06:44 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1195 A very happy Birthday , Jim, hope you have a great day!
I'll have a drink on you tonight !!
Cheers
Erica]]> A very happy Birthday , Jim, hope you have a great day!
I'll have a drink on you tonight !!
Cheers
Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1194 Fri, 04 May 2012 18:25:12 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1194 I think possibly because it was raining the nesting material might be damp so they packed in till it dries again!

Jim]]> I think possibly because it was raining the nesting material might be damp so they packed in till it dries again!

Jim]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1193 Tue, 01 May 2012 08:44:17 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1193


(I could almost suggest photo's of "Rain" but..........................)]]>


(I could almost suggest photo's of "Rain" but..........................)]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1192 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:31:47 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1192
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0

Erica]]>
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xHkq1edcbk4?rel=0

Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1191 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:33:19 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1191
A woman was walking here dog along the canal and her dog came across a hand grenade so she brought it home and placed it on the kitchen table hehehehehe

I might find out what did happen later.



Jim]]>
A woman was walking here dog along the canal and her dog came across a hand grenade so she brought it home and placed it on the kitchen table hehehehehe

I might find out what did happen later.



Jim]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1190 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:20:36 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1190
Coorparoo Station where I catch the train into Brisbane and on to Fortitude Valley


Out of Brunswick Station at the Wickham Street exit and looking toward Wickham St & Brunswick intersection


The part of Wickham St closed to traffic


Looking back at the Wickham St train station crossing where I left the train


I could not remember which street was Ann St where the Kathmandu store is so I turned right into Brunswick St






oddly there is a carparking station in there so cars drive in here butonly a short distance


Turning back to the Brunswick & Wickham St intersection where I came from.
I am in the wrong street.......it is Anzac day today so there are banners across the street


Mc Whirter's, a very old building once a department store and now apartments on top, and shops on the lower levels
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Coorparoo Station where I catch the train into Brisbane and on to Fortitude Valley


Out of Brunswick Station at the Wickham Street exit and looking toward Wickham St & Brunswick intersection


The part of Wickham St closed to traffic


Looking back at the Wickham St train station crossing where I left the train


I could not remember which street was Ann St where the Kathmandu store is so I turned right into Brunswick St






oddly there is a carparking station in there so cars drive in here butonly a short distance


Turning back to the Brunswick & Wickham St intersection where I came from.
I am in the wrong street.......it is Anzac day today so there are banners across the street


Mc Whirter's, a very old building once a department store and now apartments on top, and shops on the lower levels
]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1189 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:48:31 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1189
(Borrowed from the Website of "Palemale & Lola".)

I found this picture today and thought it was so cute - gorgeous in fact.]]>
(Borrowed from the Website of "Palemale & Lola".)

I found this picture today and thought it was so cute - gorgeous in fact.]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1187 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:14:30 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1187 ]]> ]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1186 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:29 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1186 This too is a secondhand purchase from ebay, pretty heavy at 2.25kg plus the camera so hand holding is a bit of an issue. Probably need a monopod.

I need to take some more test shots and do a fair bit of practising and getting to know this new set-up.

I feel the lens is not as sharp as the 70-200 L IS f/4 but when adjusting the sharpness in the 7D by 2 points It seems okay.
Both these shots were taken handheld, quick opportunistic shots outside my house on the street, straight out of the camera, no processing at all. One with 0 sharpening the other with 2 points in camera sharpening.





What do you think, Jim?
Erica]]> This too is a secondhand purchase from ebay, pretty heavy at 2.25kg plus the camera so hand holding is a bit of an issue. Probably need a monopod.

I need to take some more test shots and do a fair bit of practising and getting to know this new set-up.

I feel the lens is not as sharp as the 70-200 L IS f/4 but when adjusting the sharpness in the 7D by 2 points It seems okay.
Both these shots were taken handheld, quick opportunistic shots outside my house on the street, straight out of the camera, no processing at all. One with 0 sharpening the other with 2 points in camera sharpening.





What do you think, Jim?
Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1185 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:27:41 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1185 The 4WD and the accommodation at Bowra are booked too.

I depart Brisbane on the 27.August for a short 1 1/4 hour flight to Charleville where I shall pick up the 4WD and then drive the 190 km to Bowra Station.

http://www.australianwildlife.org/bowra/...bowra.aspx

this is an old post, before AWC bought Bowra Station, but has photos
http://www.gerardsatherleyphotography.co...ra-station

a birding tour taking in Bowra
http://www.outbacktracktours.com/tours.p...n+QLD+2012

a bit of copied info:
Bowra is approximately 14,000 hectares and has a diversity of habitat ranging from bluebush swamps on the Warrego floodplain to stately Red Gum and Coolibah along Gumholes Creek and the mixed mulga woodland covering the ridges.
Bowra is renowned as one of the most rewarding areas for birdwatching in Australia. Over 180 species have been recorded including Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Grey Falcon, Bustard and Brolga, Bourkes Parrot, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, Halls Babbler and White-browed Treecreeper and birds such as Black-breasted Buzzard, Red-winged Parrots, Spotted Bowerbirds and Red-capped Robins.

what a place to look forward to !
Erica]]> The 4WD and the accommodation at Bowra are booked too.

I depart Brisbane on the 27.August for a short 1 1/4 hour flight to Charleville where I shall pick up the 4WD and then drive the 190 km to Bowra Station.

http://www.australianwildlife.org/bowra/...bowra.aspx

this is an old post, before AWC bought Bowra Station, but has photos
http://www.gerardsatherleyphotography.co...ra-station

a birding tour taking in Bowra
http://www.outbacktracktours.com/tours.p...n+QLD+2012

a bit of copied info:
Bowra is approximately 14,000 hectares and has a diversity of habitat ranging from bluebush swamps on the Warrego floodplain to stately Red Gum and Coolibah along Gumholes Creek and the mixed mulga woodland covering the ridges.
Bowra is renowned as one of the most rewarding areas for birdwatching in Australia. Over 180 species have been recorded including Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Grey Falcon, Bustard and Brolga, Bourkes Parrot, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, Halls Babbler and White-browed Treecreeper and birds such as Black-breasted Buzzard, Red-winged Parrots, Spotted Bowerbirds and Red-capped Robins.

what a place to look forward to !
Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1184 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:05:44 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1184 ]]> ]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1183 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:30:56 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1183 ]]> ]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1182 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:33:44 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1182 A friend who has used a 7D for some time, checked it out for me and it looks good.
Now to read the manual and learn how to use it. Quite a different set up with the buttons. The 19 focal points should help get those birds in flight and the 18 MP should enable me to have bigger files after cropping as heavily as I have to with small birds taken with the 70-200 L IS f/4
It has 8 frames per second shooting and HD video recording for getting those little bees in action.
If the rain ever stops I be out there testing it !

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos7d

Erica]]> A friend who has used a 7D for some time, checked it out for me and it looks good.
Now to read the manual and learn how to use it. Quite a different set up with the buttons. The 19 focal points should help get those birds in flight and the 18 MP should enable me to have bigger files after cropping as heavily as I have to with small birds taken with the 70-200 L IS f/4
It has 8 frames per second shooting and HD video recording for getting those little bees in action.
If the rain ever stops I be out there testing it !

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos7d

Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1181 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:00:47 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1181
Jim]]>
Jim]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1180 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:27:57 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1180
Jim]]>
Jim]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1179 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:20:46 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1179


This is Anne's photo so I will leave her to tell you all about it - Next she has to learn how to get them up here (and she loves gardening).]]>


This is Anne's photo so I will leave her to tell you all about it - Next she has to learn how to get them up here (and she loves gardening).]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1177 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:49:16 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1177
What a few weeks it has been.
First my AFIAP honours application took over my life. It had to be at the Chairperson's by 29.Feb 12
FIAP's requirements causing me all sorts of headaches. A 7 page dossier( in triplicate plus a copy on CD) had to be prepared listing all the acceptances/awards obtained in FIAP approved salons. Requirement: min. 30 acceptances in 10 FIAP approved salons,with 10 different works in 5 different countries, ( I had 64 acceptances with 26 different works, in international 11 salons,in 8 differnt countries) It almost drove me around the twist sorting though months and months of records,the dossier needing verification from an approved Verifying Officer. Thank goodness for the mountains of help Denise, my VO, gave me or I would have given up.
The biggest problem was FIAP requiring the submission of 5 high quality prints, of archival quality for their collection, which had done well in the FIAP approved salons. They had to be a precise 30x40cm print.
None of my images are that size, so it took ages to find out how to get this done.
Pia, who does my printing, helped via email. I placed the images on a black 29.7x40cm document,to suit the A3 paper Pia was using, which had to be a different resolution to the image as otherwise the image was too small on the document. The finished file was sent then to Pia who in the end confessed she could not print that format afterall. She had tired, sorry.
So back to the drawing board, cheking on-line printing services. They all used the old measurements and I had to re-do the 5 files placing them on a 30x 40 cm black doc and then on a 12x18 " white document so the printer could print on the standard 12x18" paper. The 5 files were emailed and a few days later the prints arrived. Not usable, they had a distinct red cast which the prints from Pia did not have. Complained, offer of refund if prints sent back, postage too dear to bother for the few $ I would get back.
Find new printer !! Go by another recommendation and sent 3 files to see if this time they turn out as they should. They were in Brisbane so I decided to go and pick them up to save postage as by now my printing bill was balloning.
Beautiful quality prints, so send the other 2 files plus 1 extra for the market as there is a minimum order or it incurs a surcharge.
Back to pick them up next day, a 45 min trip each way !! happy with result.
Now to trim the white document off and write all the info FIAP requires on the back with the B6 pencil they want. No ink, biro etc allowed.
Name, address, title, where taken, when taken and sign. Ever tried writing on Kodak Endura paper with a pencil ??!! Gently, gently go over each letter again and again, hoping it would not show through on the other side. Well I managed to ruin one of them as the writing clearly showed through, so send to printer again and go and pick up once more.......at last all done.
Off to the VO to have the whole application checked, then pack making sure it will not get damaged and off to the post office !!!
A sigh of relieve and a hope to get back to my life, on the net and also out to take some photos. I had been out on a photo shoot since the Little Kookie flew off into the trees !!
But not yet as the next thing the computer comes up with a message "the system has recovered from a serious error " when I start it and recommends downloading a Diagnostic Tool to see if it was software or hardeware that had cause the overnight problem. After printing out the 7 page blurb about how to go about it I decided I would not proceed and take it to the workshop instead.
My old IT man having dissapeared I found someone in the local paper, took it there several days later and hoped for the best. They suggested to install a second internal 500GB hard drive as I was down to 32 GB of space on C drive.
The waiting........at last picked it up at 5pm Tuesday and reconnected the PC.
Next morning full exitiement to get back on the net I turn the PC on just to find the firefox page will not load.
A phone call when the shop opens, a few sugestions of what to do, nothing works so it has to go back to the workshop. I needed to get some photos sent first as I had a deadline, luckily Photoshop and email worked, so it was late afternoon when I got the PC back to the workshop. They fixed it while I was waiting, then home and reconnect and here I am the next morning back on the forum.
Now that is what you call "bad hair days" !!!!!
Glad to be back and hope to go out to take some pictures to post soon but first must move some 45 000 images to the new hard drive.........
Erica]]>
What a few weeks it has been.
First my AFIAP honours application took over my life. It had to be at the Chairperson's by 29.Feb 12
FIAP's requirements causing me all sorts of headaches. A 7 page dossier( in triplicate plus a copy on CD) had to be prepared listing all the acceptances/awards obtained in FIAP approved salons. Requirement: min. 30 acceptances in 10 FIAP approved salons,with 10 different works in 5 different countries, ( I had 64 acceptances with 26 different works, in international 11 salons,in 8 differnt countries) It almost drove me around the twist sorting though months and months of records,the dossier needing verification from an approved Verifying Officer. Thank goodness for the mountains of help Denise, my VO, gave me or I would have given up.
The biggest problem was FIAP requiring the submission of 5 high quality prints, of archival quality for their collection, which had done well in the FIAP approved salons. They had to be a precise 30x40cm print.
None of my images are that size, so it took ages to find out how to get this done.
Pia, who does my printing, helped via email. I placed the images on a black 29.7x40cm document,to suit the A3 paper Pia was using, which had to be a different resolution to the image as otherwise the image was too small on the document. The finished file was sent then to Pia who in the end confessed she could not print that format afterall. She had tired, sorry.
So back to the drawing board, cheking on-line printing services. They all used the old measurements and I had to re-do the 5 files placing them on a 30x 40 cm black doc and then on a 12x18 " white document so the printer could print on the standard 12x18" paper. The 5 files were emailed and a few days later the prints arrived. Not usable, they had a distinct red cast which the prints from Pia did not have. Complained, offer of refund if prints sent back, postage too dear to bother for the few $ I would get back.
Find new printer !! Go by another recommendation and sent 3 files to see if this time they turn out as they should. They were in Brisbane so I decided to go and pick them up to save postage as by now my printing bill was balloning.
Beautiful quality prints, so send the other 2 files plus 1 extra for the market as there is a minimum order or it incurs a surcharge.
Back to pick them up next day, a 45 min trip each way !! happy with result.
Now to trim the white document off and write all the info FIAP requires on the back with the B6 pencil they want. No ink, biro etc allowed.
Name, address, title, where taken, when taken and sign. Ever tried writing on Kodak Endura paper with a pencil ??!! Gently, gently go over each letter again and again, hoping it would not show through on the other side. Well I managed to ruin one of them as the writing clearly showed through, so send to printer again and go and pick up once more.......at last all done.
Off to the VO to have the whole application checked, then pack making sure it will not get damaged and off to the post office !!!
A sigh of relieve and a hope to get back to my life, on the net and also out to take some photos. I had been out on a photo shoot since the Little Kookie flew off into the trees !!
But not yet as the next thing the computer comes up with a message "the system has recovered from a serious error " when I start it and recommends downloading a Diagnostic Tool to see if it was software or hardeware that had cause the overnight problem. After printing out the 7 page blurb about how to go about it I decided I would not proceed and take it to the workshop instead.
My old IT man having dissapeared I found someone in the local paper, took it there several days later and hoped for the best. They suggested to install a second internal 500GB hard drive as I was down to 32 GB of space on C drive.
The waiting........at last picked it up at 5pm Tuesday and reconnected the PC.
Next morning full exitiement to get back on the net I turn the PC on just to find the firefox page will not load.
A phone call when the shop opens, a few sugestions of what to do, nothing works so it has to go back to the workshop. I needed to get some photos sent first as I had a deadline, luckily Photoshop and email worked, so it was late afternoon when I got the PC back to the workshop. They fixed it while I was waiting, then home and reconnect and here I am the next morning back on the forum.
Now that is what you call "bad hair days" !!!!!
Glad to be back and hope to go out to take some pictures to post soon but first must move some 45 000 images to the new hard drive.........
Erica]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1176 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:46:37 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1176


Jim]]>


Jim]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1175 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:37:41 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1175 ]]> ]]> http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1174 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:10:16 +0000 http://wildlife.myzen.co.uk/wildlife/showthread.php?tid=1174