The sound of Koels

Somebody who saw a picture that I made of a Koel asked me what they sound like.

It's not much to look at, this vid, but you can here them well enough. I think that there were two males and a female. The male is black, like the one in the photo above, and the females are grey with brown, sort of... .

More Cygnets get a feature

Centennial Park Cygnets has been featured in the Peace, Love and Tranquility group.

I took a walk about the place - more of the story can be seen here.

Walking on Water

Recently sold a couple of cards and a print of Walking on Water to an unknown buyer (Thanks :D)

So here it is:

When I took the original shot, I had the auto-focus on and it focused on the raindrops, leaving everything else blurry. But I had a texture shot of bubbles so I put the two together and I must say myself, the result was rather pleasing.

Sydney Sold

Sydney Sold!

These two prints, Light over the Harbour and Dark Opera respectively, have just been sold on Zazzle as medium posters!

Featured Photo - Outside the Asylum

A new picture, Outside the Asylum, has been featured in the group Moody & Evocative.

Thank you, Anthony Mancuso!

I really do like the gloom and madness that I sense in this photo. Obviously, there is some post processing, but even without that it lent itself to this kind of feeling. I think it represents a kind of terror that exists at the heart of human existence but is rarely acknowledge, not fear of death or even madness, but our fear of truth. So we choose the asylum because we think it is safer.

Of course, it's not.

Featured Photo - Afloat over Time

One of my latest works, Afloat over Time, has been featured in the
Rain Drops & Water Art
group on RedBubble!

Thank you Vanessa Barklay!!

The theme is one of drifting across existence, a shamanic journey, the crossing point between worlds.

Featured Photo - What's the story?

This was featured yesterday in the RedBubble group FOUR LETTER WORDS, (shoe, obviously).

I am rather delighted by that. I myself find it a charming picture, very hard to say why exactly.

It is available in card and print form - just click on the pic and preview options.

Many thanks to Carol James!

Puppy Love - Feature!

This photo, entitled Where are you going? has been featured in Pets Are Us

on RedBubble.

I would like to thank Ms Nickel for featuring this work, recently added. Isn't s/he adorable? It is a King Charles Spaniel and like all spaniels no doubt very good natured. At this moment, it is a very concerned spaniel.

Refering to a person as someone's spaniel has in the past been an insult, suggesting you are stupidly devoted and enslaved by the other. However, I can just as easily see it as a compliment.

This picture is available as a card or print on RedBubble. Click on the pic to see more!

Plant life - Fern Art

Ferns are amongst my favourite plants. They are more ancient than the dinosaurs and beautifully primitive.

The first is the most recent photograph. Taken at Sydney Park in St Peters a couple of weeks ago, I saw this growing out amongst the rocks and loved the red colouring.

The second picture was taken at Darling Harbour. I was walking over a footbridge and just saw it beneath me. Such a great and unusual angle to see a tree fern from.

Click on the pictures to see them on RedBubble. I've only two fern pictures, much to my surprise - these two. Well, I must get some more, mustn't I.

Clean Lines get Featured

The picture, CLEAN LINES, has been featured!

It has been featured in the Shapes & Patterns group on RedBubble today. So thank you Maria! Very happy new year it's going to be!

New pictures!

Still 30% off until 25th December if you buy as cards!!

Featured Soft

A new photo, Soft, has been featured in

If it doesn't belong

on RedBubble. Big thank you once more, this time to fourthangel! It seems it does belong there.

Featured Puzzle of Modern Living

Featured today in the Reflections in Building Windows group on RedBubble was this photo, The Puzzle of Modern Living.

Most delighted and a big thank you to Jack McCabe!

Update: and also in Excellence in Light & Reflection, now! Thank you, Di!

NEW UPDATE: Featured in Art of Glass - thanks to Ursula!!

The Living World

Pictures from RedBubble are available as attractively framed prints, such as this one, The Living World.

Kangaroo Paws are us!

http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/6392456-greeting-cardBeen out and about today. I have taken lots and lots of flower photos and shall be putting more up but for now these three Kangaroo Paw pictures are available.

The Kangaroo Paw is the floral emblem of the state of Western Australia, which is where I grew up. These ones are growing in the grounds of the University of Sydney. There are so many varieties there!



These are shown here as cards but they are also available as postcards and prints.

Western Australia is known as the Wildflower State. Not because the other states don't have any wildflowers but because the flowers of W.A. are unique, having been separated for millions of years from the rest of Australia by desert.

Picture the Pitcher

Pitcher Plants are such wonderful things!! I should probably get some myself to eat the mosquitoes around here this time of year.

If you like them too but find them to much work to care for (like I did with my Venus Fly Traps, poor things: if only I'd known that they need special potting mix) maybe this is more useful for you...

These photos were taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. The vine they grew on grew very high, climbing up the pillars to the second level in the tropical house.

Mr Shuffles and Family

Mr Shuffles and Family come in a few different forms:



And yet there are more!

This is little Pathi Harn, orginally nicknamed Mr Shuffles because of his walk. It was thought that he had died in the womb. The elephant obstetrics expert had flown home to Germany but was then summoned back. He said that this rewrites the books! Hence the name Pathi Harn, Thai for Miracle Boy.

And now he does quite well, playing with anything he can get his trunk on. He is living in Taronga Zoo.