Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #2: Eyes
A White-banded Noctuid Moth
Brown Ringlet Butterfly


Green Fly eyes
A Water Dragon
Silver Gull
Figbird
Laughing Kookaburra
Australian Pelican
King Parrot
Black-necked Stork








Fungi eyes



Last Photo for January 2023
Thank you to everyone who contributes their good and not so good photos. This year I enter in the forth year of lots of fun I hope. Thanks to those of you being brave enough to show everyone your last photo for the month.
It doesn’t have to be on the very last day of the month if you didn’t take any photos. Maybe it was earlier in the month when the last photo was taken.
So let’s see what you have for January 2023
The rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 31st January or whenever your last photo was taken.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do
4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments
5. Tag “The Last Photo”
Here’s mine.
From my Samsung Galaxy S9
From my Canon PowerShot A1200
From my Canon PowerShot SX70HS
From my Canon EOS 1300D
Lens-Artists Challenge #230: Last Chance
I was going to do a photo a month for the year but that was boring trying to find something interesting that I hadn’t already posted. I some of the folders I flicked through were some that were blog resized and named. It looks like I intended to do something with them but they somehow became lost some how.
I’ll start with a few things I found in my garden.
Perhaps a better photo of a Tufted Honeyeater was posted. This one actually shows the yellow tuft on the neck feathers
I remember the next two. I was going to do a post showing the difference of Line Blue butterflies.
The first photo shows how they were named Line Blue
But on the outside they have intricate patterns and shapes that make it so hard to ID what actual Line Blue Butterfly it is.
The Line Blues are about 10mm in length
A Fuscous Honeyeater contorting to get a drink from a Pink Pentas flower. Probably wasn’t used as some people object to birds bums.
and why wouldn’t I have found a reason to post a red leaf?
It looks like Tiny the King Parrot wants us to go outside for a while. This is one of his “Look at me, aren’t I cute” looks as he poses outside of my office window
Another photo ready to go but didn’t get anywhere. At least it is bright enough to start the day and have a look at what’s to come.
The Intermediate Egret coming into land among the old oyster racks
Livin’ the dream on the Queenlands Gold Coast
Heading back home here is an old wagon at the front entrance of a neighbours. I really like this photo and not sure why it was never used. The stalks of Barbed Wire Grass and seed heads add to the rural feel I think
Love seeing an afternoon Full Moon against a blue sky. Another unused photo together with the last photo below
Heading up the road, that farm has a variety of stock. I love Belties (Belted Galloways) as much as I like coos.
This one was a long way down the hillside and the focus wasn’t sharp. It did have a certain feel so I couldn’t help but play around a little
Later in the night Our Moon was further along the sky so a close up against a black sky can sometimes show some of the craters of the rocky moonscape
I did have to restrict my self as I wanted to post so much more but aimed for a variety where some photos may have a lot more going on. Like bird or insect photos usually involve a flower.
I am only an occasional Lens-Artists poster but have fun when the theme strikes a chord. I am looking forward for our Donna to start posting some wonderful prompts
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
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
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