January 2018 – bushboys world

Decay

Published on January 31, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy11 Comments

The Tuesday Photo Challenge from Frank is Decay

TThe old tin drum has seen better days

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The box of crayons are a bit decayed by the sun

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A once colourful Geranium

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The Paw Paw leaf is almost ready to drop to the ground

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Mrs Flora once stood tall & colourful in the garden

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: the letter X

Published on January 31, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy6 Comments

The letter challenge from Cee, the letter X

Why am I always left with X?

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Look up

Published on January 30, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy26 Comments

This photo challenge from Nancy Merrill is Look Up

Last night I went out on dusk to make sure the chook was locked up and content. I looked up

In the distance this is what I saw
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Not quite a full Moon. The clouds and colours were amazing.
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A bit closer and isn’t wonderful?
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Peeking out from behind the tree.
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I love our Moon

Don’t forget to look up whether you are inside or out.

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: January 28

Published on January 30, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy9 Comments

Odd Balls? They are the photos that are taken and sometimes you wonder why. Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge allows you an outlet for those photos.

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Is this an Odd Ball to you?

Which Way

Published on January 29, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy13 Comments

Cee’s Photo Challenge: Which Way

Which track would you take?

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The Whipbird has a bath

Published on January 29, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy14 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The letter W with 2 vowels

The Whipbird at my besties enjoy going to the bird bath. I hope you enjoy this short tale of the Whipbird having a bath

I am ready for my bath

OK. I am going in.

This is great.

I really enjoyed that bath.

I hope my feet are clean.

Well………how do you look after your bath?

Walls

Published on January 29, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy6 Comments

This black and white photo challenge from Cee is Walls – Inside or Outside

Here is an Inside
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This is outside
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The Begonia

Published on January 29, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy4 Comments

A photo challenge from Lost in Translation: Once Over

I like this photo challenge as I quite often am not satisfied with a photo I have taken and want to try and capture the feeling or mood when I was attempting to get what I wanted.

Here is the original – the closest of many photos to what I hoped to achieve.
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What I wanted but just couldn’t adjust my camera to the right settings to achieve was a dark background in order to fringe highlight the small hairs on the begonia leaves and stems. Once I had manipulated the image to what I desired, I then removed some of the elements that I didn’t want in the photo with cropping and cloning.
This is my final result.
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The Room With Flowers

Published on January 28, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy7 Comments

The Daily Post word prompt: Variations on a theme

Birds in black and white

Published on January 28, 2018March 6, 2018 by bushboy12 Comments

The Daily Post word prompt: Silhouette

I really enjoy turning my photos of birds into silhouettes. It is a bit of a process as I actually draw around the outline of the bird. I don’t use flood colour, I fill in the bird with black and then do the rest of the photos black pieces, branches etc by hand. The white is done the same way. I have posted some of these previously.

As you can see I don’t use borders. When they are framed, the mask provides an edge.