Big bees

Massive bees here…

More than enough flowers for them. 

Experiments

I am entering this year’s Canon EOS Photo5 competition.  One of the briefs is to create a close up image with an eye dropper.  I manages to get hold of a gorgeous glass one to add to the effect of the image.  The image is from a little science experiment you can do at home.  Add some milk to a saucer, then place some drops of food colouring to the milk.

Next add some dishwashing liquid and watch the colours swirl!  I just love how the drop looks like a piece of glass, with the reflection below. 

I will add some more photos from my entries tomorrow, but there is a pile of washing calling!  Taking photos all weekend means I left a bit of housework for the week.

Numnuts

Our assignment is to take photos in unusual light.  We then have to edit the image so the colours go back to normal. I figured my son’s lava lamp should work well.

The blue screen of the tv when in DVD mode also created a cool effect.

What smartypants forgot is that blue and green are primary colours.  They don’t have any other colour info!!!  I just get various shades of blue and green.  So back to the drawing board.  Late night tonight

Bikes in the city

The colours caught my eye.  So many bikes in Melbourne each day.

 

I will post more pictures by next week.  Just finishing off the debutante photos.  Between that, sick kids and my own cold, I seem to be a little swamped at the moment.  There seems to be a little less time for fun than usual.

Defining cuteness

Part of our assignment for the weekend was to photograph people.  Since these are tourist towns, lots of families were around.  The parents kindly let me take photos of their kids.

This beautiful little one didn’t want to smile, to lots of laughter from her family.  After a little chat, she did warm up to me a little.

These two sisters were gorgeous, jumping around – hopping like rabbits.

She is a twin, though her brother was not keen to be in the photo. Still barely awake on mom’s lap, but look at those gorgeous eyes …

Isn’t this a fantastic sweet?  She was such a wonderful little model.  Full of energy and lots of laughter.

Candy Colours

I just can’t resist photographing bright colours!

The tram is full of bright green.

I think these are chairs.  I saw them outside a restaurant on Southbank.

I won’t ride a motorbike, but they are really cool to take photos of.