I decided to create this journal to hold all of my photos and photography-related stuff.. partly so that people who are only interested in pretty piccies don't have to sift through my clutter, and also partly so that I can link people to my photos without everyone traipsing through my personal journal.

This year a couple of people have inspired me to get involved in Project 365 - taking one photo (at least) every day for the whole year. This will help me to improve my photography and editing skills, and it'll also be great to look back at the end of the year at all of the things I saw and captured. Some of the photos will be photo-journal entries, some will just be random. I don't think I'll be able to limit myself to only one per day, though!

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1. My boys! The ONLY photo that they all faced front, grr.
2 - 5. Sulphur crested cockatoos.
6. I love this sign. I so badly want someone to dump a rusted-out old washing machine at the base of this tree.
7 - 12. Various roads, road signs, towers etc. I love signs, especially crooked ones. And I adore the picture of the tree and the moon - I saw it on my way home, so I drove all the way home, grabbed my camera, and drove back to photograph it!
13 - 15. A possum clinging to a tree in our backyard. He let me get nice and close to take some photos. Cute!

1. San Francisco last week.

2. Ditto.

3. It rained lots while I was on holidays! The kangaroos, cows and ducks are in heaven.

4. But this one is a very unhappy whistling duck :( He was caught in our chook pen and was frantically flying into the wire, trying to find a way out. You can't see properly, but there is blood actually dripping off his bill, where he has cut it open. He also cut the front of his wings. There's blood all over my camera now (yay). I treated the cuts on his wings but left the one on his bill - it was actually healing up as I held him (and I didn't want to interfere with his face). I gave him some pats and then put him on the grass - he flew away and whined about me to his parents for a solid half hour (I could hear him down at the water the whole time). Very pretty, I just wish they wouldn't get stuck in there EVERY DAY. I hate seeing them get so panicked and hurling themselves around like that.

5. The view from my boyfriend's apartment on a dull, rainy day. I liked the sooty black buildings on the left, and the contrast of the warm lamplight in someone's window.

6. I liked the way the bright afternoon sun was casting a shadow on the butterfly's wings.

7. Our old birdbath usually sits out in the open, but with so much rain, the trees have exploded into life and they're really dense. I love dark little cubby holes under thick plants - when I was little my sister and I made a little den inside a big bottlebrush tree.. we were heartbroken when dad pruned it heavily and changed the shape. I love bright days and dark green leaves.. and I really liked the heavy shadows across the ground and silhouettes in this one.

I uploaded this but forgot to post it.

1. Closeup of a fallen tree after the storms.
2. I KNOW WHAT YOU TWO ARE UP TO.
3. Tiny seedlings.
4. A sulphur crested cockatoo against a rainy sky.
5. When a mummy toad and a daddy toad love each other verrrrrrrrrry much, there's enough love left over to make 35000 new toads... this shot took a lot of patience - even though the toads were hiding under their tuft of grass, they're all very nervous and jumpy, so I had to kneel in the mud for a while until I could slowly get close enough to get the right angle. Toads are ugly, and yet really quite beautiful, I think.
6. Slime bubble! *giggle*
7. Frogs-to-be! I don't know who these belong to, but they're not cane toads (cane toads lay long strings of black eggs). It made me happy to see so much frogspawn in the dam, but sadly when the toad tadpoles hatch, they will be larger and more aggressive than the frogs, and will eat many of them. Jerks.

1. The old pump shed at the bottom of the yard.
2. A red poinciana Delonix regia blossom in the rain.
3. My dog makes photography subjects for me! Then she jumps all over them later and ruins them :(
4. A rusty home-made ladder leans against our concrete water tank.
5. A tiny black jumping spider tries to hide from me inside the cracks of an ironbark trunk.
6. My backyard is full of water!
7. Plumed whistling ducks Dendrocygna eytoni.
8. An old, dead tree. This looks really pixellated but the limbs are just really, really twisted.

9. I forget what this is called and it's driving me crazy.

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21/365

Will post 19 and 21 later... I've been away for work so I've fallen behind in my editing & posting. If I ever skip a day, it's not because I haven't taken photos (I promised I'd take at least one photo every day), but because I haven't had time to edit. Orrrr it could be because I took a tonne of photos but wasn't happy with any of them!