This week’s outing into the Australian Botanical Gardens, Mount Annan, didn’t have the same feel to it as last week and reviewing the shots, seems like it wasn’t the same as last week, I don’t feel the shots this week are as good as last week, Started off promising as when I got up this morning there was fog about but by the time I got my camera in the car and out of the garage the fog had cleared all in about ten minutes, Would be good to get some shots with Fog on the various dams around the gardens with the water birds coming out of the fog, Oh well another day I guess.

The day started of early again so in the gardens again just on 7:00 am, first thing I found was a few rabbits still about but they high tailed it out of there before I even got a decent focus on them, this was the best I got and sort of how the day shaped up.

From there I wound my way through the Terrace gardens where I found these bottle brushes out the red and yellow really stood out so I had to have a go with them and with the speedlite and soft box some of these turned out OK, so I thought my luck was turning.

I then walked via the lakes to the Stolen Generations Memorial (A memorial for the memory of the Australian Aboriginal families that were separated from their parents by the European settlement) Around this area there is always abundant bird life, and again today was no exception I managed to get this Eastern Yellow Robin sitting still long enough.

Then  Eastern Rosella exploring a tree hollow looking for a nesting site.

 Time was getting on and I still hadn’t found my Mushroom for the week so I headed back up the to the Wollemi Walk of Discovery where I found last week’s Mushroom and there was still a few left, this one was the better of the three remaining and the texture of the Cap reminded me a bit of a brain to look at so it made shot for the week, luckily as it was the only one found all day.

 The last shot is the behind the scenes shot showing the set up with two speedlites and everything on the ground, the Swivel screen on the Canon 60D is certainly a back saver.

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