feathers

Feathers and flowers

Published on May 4, 2023 by bushboy20 Comments

Cee’s Midweek madness Challenge: May Close-up or Macro

A tiny Skipper Butterfly on Purple Basil flowers

Getting close with a Cats Whiskers flower

The centre of an Apricot Brandy Hibiscus flower

A tiny orchid, Epidrum secundum.

The beautiful feathers of a Lace Wyandotte hen

More feathers

Published on January 11, 2023 by bushboy16 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers

This is the second post for Cee’s challenge. I was chatting about the Purple Fringe Lily that grows on my place, and thought I have another flower growing on my place that looks similar. One grows on land, the other grows on water.

Do you think they have feathers as well?

How the fight began

Published on January 11, 2023 by bushboy24 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers

“Hey everyone, look what I found to add to the nest.”

“You call that a feather? THIS is a feather!!”

At that is how the fight started until it was decided to bury the feather

Parrot patterns

Published on December 11, 2022December 11, 2022 by bushboy55 Comments

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #229: Perfect Patterns

“Hi, there I’m looking for someone to help me with a photo challenge. Do you think you would like to be my female model? The photo challenge is called Perfect Patterns. I think your feathers are just perfect and you are very pretty. “

“OK. I’ll take part but I am rather skeptical that you’ll do a good job.”

It’s not often we get a glimpse of blue feathers underneath those wonderful varied green scalloped wing feathers

The green and blue meld as they cascade down towards her tail

I love the almost turquoise

Great patterns on the legs and feet. Also showing a hint of orangish-red feathers

The breast and neck feathers of the females are not a bright as the males

The colours intermingle well as the neck feathers blend into a pattern with the breast feathers.

All the coloured patterns with wing pattern diagonals

“Well you didn’t do too bad a job. One more close up and then I’m off to find my boyfriend.”

“Shhh. Don’t let her know where I am.”

“I’ve been out with the boys.”

“She’ll never think of looking for me here.”

and they lived happily ever after

Re-living the Past #23 – My First Greenish Photos

Published on September 3, 2022 by bushboy28 Comments

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Greenish

This selection of photos range from 2014 to 2017. Perhaps you may have seen the before. Some are favourites I re-do for challenges and some you may have not seen before.

Yes there maybe a snake involved so perhaps I’ll make it into a slideshow so those who find nature not to there liking can skip past.

1 A Green-banded Line Blue Butterfly
2 Just a stack of bottles in a restaurant
3 There’s your Green Tree Snake
4 King Parrot feathers
5 A Green Tree Frog
6 Reflections on water. One of these started my interest in doing water reflection abstracts
7 A Dragonfly

Monday Portrait – 28 February

Published on February 28, 2022February 25, 2022 by bushboy24 Comments

It’s all about the feathers

Published on November 12, 2021 by bushboy20 Comments

Sunday Still: Birds of a Feather

Coucal Pheasant

Welcome Swallow showing you what a feather looks like

Australian Ibis

Rooster neck feathers

Rooster tail feathers called sickle feathers

King Parrot

King Parrot wing

Laughing Kookaburra showing his stylish new haircut

Rainbow Lorikeet and a Bottle Brush flower

Musk Lorikeet

Crimson Rosella

Scarlet Honeyeater

A gift for a Marigold flower

Going green

Published on September 9, 2021 by bushboy16 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – September Colour: Dark Green

Some are good, some are bad

Published on May 13, 2021May 15, 2021 by bushboy21 Comments

The Ragtag Daily Prompt Thursday: Plume

Published on May 15, 2019 by bushboy10 Comments

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers

When thinking about this photo challenge I was flooded with so many ideas, funnily enough, I seem to have lots of feathers in my folders.
But my thoughts turned to where all this photo challenge started. One day in 2014 I received a comment asking about my post. I started chatting with Yvette from https://priorhouse.blog/ who encouraged me to enter photo challenges.
You may wonder what this has to do with feathers I guess. The post that Yvette found was My Rooster

Yvette asked if she could link my post to her post Of course I said yes. From this, I met Paula who also encouraged me to enter photo challenges. Yes these two are responsible for my addiction to photo challenges.

OK on to the feathers of Flaming Prince who is no longer with us but his memory lives on in bushboys world