G'day welcome back to my blog. This afternoon I went back into the botanical gardens, with my camera to see what was about today. I started off at the Wollemi pine walk, some where that I know had mushrooms the other week, I walked into the area and found that there was only a few mushrooms left and what was there has seen better days, but I set up and went about taking a few shots. 

The Mushrooms were growing on the side of a small drainage ditch which was a little muddy so the Camera was sat on a rock and the speedlites had to suffer a little, I had the soft box to light the scene and the other speedlite to light the underside of the mushroom as shown below.

The final show is as you see below here. After a few sprays of water to dampen things down.

As I was finishing up across the other side of the path was a small depression in the mud with a little water left so made for a drinking hole for the local bird life and a small flock of red brown finches came down for a drink while I was there, so a quick change out of the lens and on with the 70 to 200 with 1.4x extender and I managed to get this shot, not the best but still it gives the idea of what was happening. There was one silver eye there to join the party.

From there I walked out and drive back to the main garden to see what was around there today, the usual mushroom was empty so good thing I went to the other one first other wise I'd have no mushroom shot for shoot mushroom Saturday on google plus. While walking around thre gardens I found a small flock of silvereyes at the top of the connections gardens and got a few good shots there, below is one of the better Silvereye shots I got. 

I was very happy with this shot once processed back home.

On the way back to the car and home I found one of the more unusual wattles that the gardens have, a Acacia glaucoptera, a clay wattle and comes from western Australia, the little Wattle flowers usually in sprays of flowers at the ends of the branches are in this case little yellow balls along the stem at the base of the leaves. 

These were all shot with the camera mounted on a tripod one speedlite on the ground shooting up and a small soft box in my hand while I triggered the camera with my remote trigger.

That was the end of the day. So another great days shots at the gardens in Mount Annan.

Thanks for dropping my.