This week’s blog is again another walk though of today’s shots in the Australian Botanical gardens Mount Annan. Another hot day out with 30 plus Deg C. temperature in the gardens, plus high humidity so not the most pleasant of temperatures to be out walking. But still I did. I started off heading to the stolen generation memorial area where there use usually abundant bird life about as there permanent water there. As I was walking in there was a Galah working on a dead tree branch trying to make it a nesting hollow by the looks of it.

 Its mate was in a nearby branch, neither shot was good really as in both cases not a clear shot of the face.

They were also hand held so not that great all round. As I got to the board walk area a few Sulphur Crested Cockatoos flew in, this time I used the Tripod so a lot cleaner shot but again not the best angle and not a clean face shot again.

An Eastern Yellow Robin was also around and I got this shot again not really a great shot but clear as shot on the tripod again.

These shots are all heavily cropped in as still no sign of the Sigma 150 to 600 hitting the shops yet L. From there I walked for about an hour and a half in the heat and humidity and really didn’t get anything much in the way of shots so good work out in the heat but no great shots. After that I headed back to the car and drove up to the Wollemi pine walk of discovery where it’s usually cooler and usually a good place to find mushrooms to shot. This week in Sydney has been warm but a few wet days as well so I thought I’d find a few mushrooms up there and I wasn’t wrong.

I managed to find four different sets of mushrooms today, three are shown below, the first one, Two mushrooms together, not that happy with could have done with more depth of field to the shot, So I’ll need to watch that in future.

The next one I shot form two angles as it was on a bit of an incline so the first one was shot straight on the next was shot from down the slope back up, looks like a totally different mushroom from the other angle. Bit happier with these two shots.

The last one again was a pair of mushrooms together, I tried these from two angles and various lighting positions including a few goes at back lighting these.

This was the best I came up with for this one, not that happy with it just the same, Need to work slower and take my time in future to get better results I think some of these should have been better than they turned out so more work needed. By now I it was getting closer to lunch time the heat was still rising and I had had enough for the day so headed home.

So that was the end of todays photowalk in the gardens.

Thanks for dropping by my blog. Back next week.

Glenn