It's all about me

Box Brownie Photos: A little me

BELOW: This photo was recently given to me by my Auntie Joan. I don’t know how old I am – I will ask mum when I see her, soon. It was taken with a Kodak Box Brownie camera by my aunt at my grandfather’s place. Grandpa trained trotters. That’s why there is a sulky in the background.

Christine, young

Christine

FEATURED: This other image is possibly one of us with mum. I think it is me. Auntie Joan was not sure if it was our family. Again, mum will know.

Thanks for looking. Have a good day. 🙂

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Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge

Macro: Barbed wire snags

For Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Macro  This week, Sally has an interesting treatment for a Gerber Daisy – you would hardly believe they are the same image.

My close-up images were taken with the Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Phone, on auto.  The featured image (above or at the side depending on your device) was colour adjusted and sharpened in IrfinView before being scaled in GIMP.

The next one seems boring in comparison … maybe I have been fiddling with the settings and I only thought it was on auto…

raindrops on snagged cattle hair in wire barb

raindrops on snagged cattle hair in a wire barb

 

And here is the same one with the white balance auto adjusted in GIMP…

as above but white balance changed

with white balance changed

 

This last image is as is, only cropped and sharpened…

snagged cattle hair in barbed wire

raindrops on snagged cattle hair in barbed wire

 

Which one do you like best?

None?

How about this one…

jonquils (Nokia Lumia 520)

jonquils in my garden (Nokia Lumia WP 520)

 

Thanks for looking. Have a  good day.    🙂

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Birds

New Holland Honeyeaters

We have a small flock of resident New Holland Honeyeaters in our yard. They love hanging about in our ivy-infested apple tree. The blighters never, ever, pose in decent light when I have a camera.

four new holland honeyeaters

four New Holland Honeyeaters

preening honeyeaters

three New Holland honeyeaters preening

 

These photos were taken during the week using the Nikon D3000 DSLR, on auto. Images cropped and sharpened in GIMP.

sparrow and honeyeater

sparrow and honeyeater

 

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sparrow and honeyeater

 

It is a sunny day today and I expect these birds will taunt me again! They will flit and twirl and fluff and preen. They will vanish as soon as I return with a camera. [sigh]

I’m still flat out every day rewriting and editing and getting the odd scene up on Wattpad – 66 parts so far. Today I start editing a scene with over 2000 words and, at the speed I’m going, it will take me all week. I want to get it done today. I run my scenes through Autocrit and by the time I take out repetitive words and phrases, cliches, reduce the passive speech, showing vs telling, I end up with a better scene.

Thanks for dropping in. Do have a good weekend.  🙂

honeyefeat

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