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Tarun Bhushan

Amateur photographer, tinkerer, information security fanatic, electrical engineer

Occupation: Information Security Architect

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2013-06-17 13:17:14 (32 comments, 1 reshares, 35 +1s)

Shear(ed) rock drop

Welcome, my friends, and look upon this ancient rock that the earth took eons to deposit, and you can look at a section of this history, where layer upon layer is visible. But don't stand up here and gaze upon that rock if you're afraid of heights because you're high above on a cliff edge, with angry rocks and crazy water waiting eagerly far below.

A look at the cliffs made of solid Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney.

3 frame bracketed HDR.

#nationalparksmonday +NationalParksMonday (+Juan Pons)
#mountainmonday +Mountain Monday (+Michael Russell)
#NatureMonday +NatureMonday (+Rolf Hicker +Kate Church)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom... more »

2013-06-17 11:31:21 (22 comments, 3 reshares, 32 +1s)

I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me

This Tussock Moth caterpillar (Orvasca semifusca) reminds me of Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin, at least from the illustrations in the book I had as a child, with the tufts of hair sticking out on either side! ;). Now that's a fuzzy-wuzzy if there ever was one!

#macromonday +Macro Monday (+Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley) - Fuzzy Wuzzy
#Macro4All +Macro4All (+Walter Soestbergen +Bill Urwin +Mark O'Callaghan +Chris Levers)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Suzi Harr)
#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz +Vincent Dale)
#yisforyellow +YisforYellow (+Lucille Galleli)
#YellowCircle +***** (+Brian Dukes)

2013-06-16 11:37:01 (27 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

Right up there? You must be joking!

Near the starting point of yesterday's bushwalk in the Royal National Park (south of Sydney), we could see the power of the sea. It was a windy day and the sea was rough, with waves pounding the beach and the base of the tall cliffs. Our climb up the sandstone cliff you see in the middle took us to the track that we followed, one that skirts the edge of the cliffs, with spectacular views, and several streams/creeks that raced to the edge and plunged to the sharp rocks and raging surf far below. At times, the sea was hitting the cliffs with such ferocity that we were showered with salt spray even though we were on top of the cliffs.

3 frame bracketed HDR.

#beachsunday +Beach Sunday (+Ross Campbell)
#skysunday +Sky Sunday - Photography Theme (+Patrick Scherkenbach +Randy Scherkenbach)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape... more »

2013-06-15 13:39:36 (16 comments, 3 reshares, 39 +1s)

Just give me a sign

This is Eagle Rock in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney. It is an icon of the national park. The rock and the weathered massive sandstone cliffs that it is part of were some of the wonderful things we encountered on a strenuous bushwalk today. It is quite a hike to get to the cliff tops from the level of the beach far below but it was all worth it for all the sights (and exercise).

Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock - Clip (1971)

#StoneSaturday +Stone Saturday (+Jen Baptist)
#EarthPatternSaturday +Earth Pattern Saturday (+Annette Gretler +Beat Gretler)
#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape (+Terrie Gray +Johnny Minor +Nicolai Neijhoft +Lani Banadera +Aamir Shahzad)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl... more »

2013-06-15 11:33:23 (30 comments, 4 reshares, 51 +1s)

There's still life in an old friend

There was a tree right in the middle of a quiet portion of Middle Harbour Creek (in Garigal National Park in the north of Sydney) and I used to go to it for many years while stepping across the creek. There were many photographs I'd taken from, and of, the tree over the period. Recently, I noticed the tree was missing. On searching, I found it a short distance downstream, now dead but still sustaining life. There were a number of fungi (that look like Oyster mushrooms) growing on it (and ants on the mushrooms), and from the look of the wood, borers in it as well. Perhaps the borers weakened the tree and it got swept away. Still, I'm happy this old friend still lives, in other forms...

Tried a different thing. This is a two frame focus stack, but not a macro - it's taken with a telephoto lens.

#shroomshotsaturday... more »

2013-06-13 13:40:38 (29 comments, 2 reshares, 37 +1s)

Head of the hammer

Barrenjoey Head is the northernmost tip of the Northern Beaches in Sydney. Viewed from the air, the Head has a hammerhead shape, with the Palm Beach strip and lower being the shaft. Photographed from West Head, this shows the Barrenjoey Lighthouse at the top, with the Tasman Sea in the background.

3 frame bracketed HDR.

#coastalthursday +Coastal Thursday (+David Polzine +Jon Kahn)
#thirstythursdaypics (+Giuseppe Basile +Mark Esguerra)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl +Michael Blyde +Carolyn Lim +Steve Gould +Jay Gould +Kevin Rowe +Dave Welling)
#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape (+Terrie Gray +Johnny Minor +Nicolai Neijhoft +Lani Banadera +Aamir Shahzad)
#hqsphdr +HQSP HDR (+Bret Shah... more »

2013-06-13 12:07:17 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

Caught red-handed

Red Hands Cave in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park (in the north of Sydney) is a shallow sandstone cave that contains ancient Aboriginal cave art. Estimated to be about 2,000 years old, this art would have been made by the Garigal clan of the Aboriginal people of the Guringai Nation (the national park is named after them), who lived around the West Head area. This photograph shows one of the hand impressions made by blowing red ochre over a hand placed on the sandstone. Considering the cave is relatively exposed, it is remarkable this cave art has survived this long even though it has become somewhat indistinct over time. Protected now, this site and other nearby Aboriginal heritage sites are important to the local Aboriginal people.

#HistoryThursday +History Thursday (+Matt Shalvatis)
#photojournalworldwide +Photo Journal Worldwide (+andi rivarola)

2013-06-12 12:25:40 (30 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

Go straight and you'll hit New Zealand

A 12 frame panorama showing the magnificent view from West Head in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park in Sydney. In the middle on the left you can see Lion Island, which is just outside the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, behind the lion's tail is Broken Bay and the NSW Central Coast. In the middle on the right is Barrenjoey Head and Palm Beach, and sticking out into the Tasman Sea in the middle is Hawke Head and the Bouddi National Park.

#WideWednesdayPanorama +WideWednesdayPanorama (+Charles Lupica +Ken McMahon +Lucille Galleli)
#WideAngleWednesday +Wide Angle Wednesday (+Asif Patel)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl +Michael Blyde +Carolyn Lim +Steve Gould +Jay Gould +Kevin Rowe... more »

2013-06-12 11:26:36 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Heck, that was a low takeoff!

Juvenile Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) taking off after I came too close!

#birdpoker takeoffs curated by +Phil Armishaw

2013-06-11 14:35:21 (29 comments, 1 reshares, 42 +1s)

The Lion lies

West Head in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park (Sydney) has superb views from its heights. Here you see Lion Island (see the lion lying down?) at middle right, the Hawkesbury River joining the sea left and the Pittwater to the right. You can see the NSW Central Coast in the distance at the centre.

View full size for best effect.

#seatuesday +Sea Tuesday (+Julia Anna Gospodarou)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl +Michael Blyde +Carolyn Lim +Steve Gould +Jay Gould +Kevin Rowe +Dave Welling)
#hqsplandscape +HQSP Landscape (+Terrie Gray +Johnny Minor +Nicolai Neijhoft +Lani Banadera +Aamir Shahzad)
#hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome (+Luis Vivanco +Оксана Крысюкова +Johnny Minor)#landscapear... more »

2013-06-11 12:47:00 (37 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

A hungry mouth to feed

Red Gum trees (Angophora costata) often have strange shaped protuberances on them. I found this one near West Head in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, in the north of Sydney. Looks like it has a mouth that would gobble up your arm if you dared to insert it into its gob. (But then, some people - you know who you are - would say it looks like something else on the other side of the body) ;)

#TreeTuesday +Tree Tuesday (+Shannon S. Myers +Christina Lawrie)

2013-06-10 11:19:40 (32 comments, 5 reshares, 59 +1s)

I think I'll have some grass, man

This was a little dragon whizzing by in our backyard and came and settled on a blade of grass. I was macro photographing a flower nearby and swung around and was able to take this one shot handheld before it took off again. Looks like the same species as one I'd photographed (with dew drops) early in my G+ days, but this one was quite small.

See full size for all the pretty details these little creatures have.

#macromonday +Macro Monday (+Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley) - It's on a blade of grass - must match the sub-theme 'In the grass'. ;)
#Macro4All +Macro4All (+Walter Soestbergen +Bill Urwin +Mark O'Callaghan +Chris Levers)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Suzi Harr)
#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz +Vincent... more »

2013-06-09 14:02:34 (36 comments, 0 reshares, 34 +1s)

Hey! Look who's here...

So +Shane Williams and I got the opportunity to catchup today while he was in Sydney. Was great to meet him in person after interacting with him for so long over G+!

2013-06-08 15:14:40 (27 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)

Close to the spores

One of my images I posted a couple of weeks ago showed slime mould or a dung fungus (coprophilous fungi) on wild animal dung (and yes, I know the reaction it got from some people then ;)). That was taken with a zoom lens as that was what was available at the time, and there were requests for a closer (macro) shot. On last week's bushwalk, I was on the lookout for another "specimen", and found one, so here is a macro shot. You can quite clearly see the sporophytes. This was fairly early in the morning, hence the dew drops as well.

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#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Suzi Harr)

2013-06-07 14:04:23 (41 comments, 5 reshares, 47 +1s)

Pratfall of clowns

Came across a large shrub in the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens that was infested with these stink bugs. These are nymphs (various instars) of the Hibiscus Harlequin Bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus) on a leaf of the shrub. These bugs feed on many species of the hibiscus family (Malvaceae), including ornamental hibiscus and cotton. This is just a small section of the bugs on this leaf, and other parts of the shrub (including buds) had many of them too.

6 frame focus stack macro.

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#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz +Vincent Dale)
#photojournalworldwide +Photo Journal Worldwide... more »

2013-06-06 13:59:31 (34 comments, 3 reshares, 45 +1s)

Running rings around the rock

Beautiful patterns on sea weathered sandstone at the northern end of Balmoral Beach in Sydney.

3 frame bracketed HDR.

#coastalthursday +Coastal Thursday (+David Polzine +Jon Kahn)
#thirstythursdaypics (+Giuseppe Basile +Mark Esguerra)
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography (+Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl +Michael Blyde +Carolyn Lim +Steve Gould +Jay Gould +Kevin Rowe +Dave Welling)
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#hqsphdr +HQSP HDR (+Bret Shah +Aamir Shahzad)

2013-06-05 14:46:21 (28 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)

Your eyes would be red too if you had a spoon for a mouth

Was able to creep up quite close to this Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) largely because I was shielded by tall grass and the bird was at a slightly lower level. I was pleased to see so many water birds inhabiting the lakes and the Nerang River at the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens in Queensland.

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#hqspbirds +HQSP Birds (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz)
#DailyDepthOfField +Daily Depth Of Field (+Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig)
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#Birds4All +Birds4All (+Walter Soestbergen)

2013-06-05 13:47:55 (25 comments, 6 reshares, 46 +1s)

My cleaners come every morning

I was walking on the grass at the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens early in the morning and noticed patches where there were tiny webs twinkling with dew drops in the morning sun. Considering there were quite a few, I was wondering if these were spider webs or made by caterpillars. When I was photographing this macro, I saw the owner - a really tiny brown spider, perhaps just 1 mm across. It wasn't inclined to have its photo taken because it quickly abseiled down into the depths of the grass and disappeared.

9 frame focus stack macro.

#webbywednesday +WebbyWednesday (+Celeste Odono)
#wetwednesday +Wet Wednesday (+Jen Baptist)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Suzi Harr)
#hqspnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other (+Valesa Diamontes +Vincent Dale +Ali Sadreddini)
#Macro4All +Macro4All (+Walter... more »

2013-06-04 12:09:44 (19 comments, 3 reshares, 33 +1s)

Gravid

Section of base of mighty & old Moreton Bay Fig tree, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.

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2013-06-04 11:21:40 (24 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

All dressed up and no place to go

A section of Vivid Sydney as viewed from my office.

#mytowntuesday +My Town Tuesday (+Melanie Kintz +Jamie Furlong)

2013-06-03 13:37:48 (32 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

Not only for the birds

A beautiful, tranquil place with lots of water (and other) birds - the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens in Queensland. I must have carried it with me from Sydney but the day I was here, it was reportedly the coolest day in 20 years.

3 frame bracketed HDR.

#Mirrormonday +Mirrors and Reflections (+Gemma Costa +Isabella Francesca Abigail Shores)
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#hqsphdr +HQSP HDR (+Bret Shah +Aamir Shahzad)

2013-06-03 12:35:35 (33 comments, 6 reshares, 35 +1s)

I've got my eyes on you

My caterpillar friend from a few days ago, this time quite a bit closer to show the body and true legs detail.

60mm macro lens, 3 extension tubes, ISO 100, f/22, 1/60sec, two flashes (SB-900 + SB-910). 12 frame focus stack.

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2013-06-02 13:02:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Added photos to The Selfy Sunday Project.

2013-06-01 16:51:10 (35 comments, 5 reshares, 35 +1s)

All hands in the air

I was on the return leg of a rather gruelling bushwalk last weekend and was descending a steep rocky slope when I noticed something light coloured sticking out of the dense leaf litter and Casuarina needles. I carefully moved the covering material aside and uncovered this beautiful coral fungus. This is Salmon Coral Fungus (Ramaria ochraceosalmonicolor), which can be found in forests in the southern parts of Australia, and also in New Zealand. Just don't try to eat it because it is reportedly poisonous. After photographing it, I replaced the covering material because that keeps it moist and prevents the sun from desiccating it.

Must relate something that happened at the same time. While I was photographing this, a troop of cub scouts passed me on their way up the slope. As the slope was steep, they stopped for a rest just a few metres from me. The day... more »

2013-05-31 13:18:50 (35 comments, 6 reshares, 49 +1s)

Many poles to dance on

A ground hugging Callistemon at the Gold Coast Botanic Gardens in Queensland. A couple of vistors picking their way carefully through the many styles of this Australian native. Some species of the Callistemon genus from family Myrtaceae, such as this one, are called Bottlebrushes.

#floralfriday +FloralFriday (+Tamara Pruessner +Beth Akerman +Kiki Nelson +Eustace James)
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#inpraiseofpollinators ++In Praise of Polllinators... more »

2013-05-31 12:24:43 (23 comments, 4 reshares, 37 +1s)

One obstacle at a time

Found this little translucent green caterpillar wandering in our backyard. Just a little thing (about 2cm long) it was in danger of being trampled as the area was being cleaned. Gave it an autumn leaf and it clambered on quite readily and then paused for which I was thankful as it hadn't stopped moving. I could shoot a focus stack series very quickly (this is a stack of 7 frames). I'd been observing it for a while. If you see the white thread like things hanging off the caterpillar near bottom right, there were a lot of those when I first saw it. It slowly ate all of them. Wonder what they were.

#BuggyFriday +Buggy Friday (+Ray Bilcliff +Dorothy Pugh +Sherry McBriar)
#Macro4All +Macro4All (+Walter Soestbergen +Bill Urwin +Aamir Shahzad +Mark O'Callaghan +Chris Levers)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal Kumar +Vinod... more »

2013-05-30 14:19:39 (29 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)

Roller coaster

Curly Wig (Caustis flexuosa, family Cyperaceae) is a sedge found in New South Wales, especially around Sydney. It is a very graceful plant with curly thin leaves, as you can see in the photograph. It is also called Grandfather's Beard and sometimes, um, Pubic Hair Sedge. ;) It is a food for ground parrots. Its attractiveness made it a target for florists, but to save it from disappearing, it was made a protected plant.

#leavesonthursday +Leaves On Thursday (+Marilou Aballe +Ray Bilcliff +Anne Durand)
#hqspnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other (+Valesa Diamontes +Blake Harrold)
#DailyDepthOfField +Daily Depth Of Field (+Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig)

2013-05-30 12:28:47 (23 comments, 4 reshares, 33 +1s)

Where's that towel now...

I came across this bee walking on a fire trail in the forest while I was on a bushwalk last weekend. It had been raining a bit and it was wet, and I think its wings were soaked. Just kept walking, with me chasing behind. Got a shot or two, eventually.

#beethursday +Bee Thursday (+Dorothy Pugh)
#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal Kumar +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Pieter Hibma)
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#inpraiseofpollinators ++In Praise of Polllinators (+Dusty Gedge)

2013-05-29 13:34:53 (27 comments, 2 reshares, 38 +1s)

Time in the spotlight

It was pretty gloomy in the depths of the Blue Mountains rainforest, and a solitary sunbeam lit up this cobweb, turning it golden. It always amazes me how spiders make their webs in such seemingly inaccessible places. This particular one is over a largish pool of water at the top of a waterfall, so the far end of the web is tethered to a rock that is in the middle of the water at the edge of the precipice where the water falls down. A very canny spider, because the pool is frequented by lots of insects wanting water, so food must be plentiful, and the web parallel to the water surface must maximise the catching area!

#webbywednesday +WebbyWednesday (+Celeste Odono)
#photojournalworldwide +Photo Journal Worldwide (+andi rivarola)

2013-05-29 12:53:22 (34 comments, 6 reshares, 34 +1s)

The heart of the matter

This orchid flowers once a year in our backyard, and the time is now.

Focus stack of two images, one for the outside, and one for the back of the throat.

#orchidwednesday +Orchid Wednesday (+Christopher Prins)
#hqspflowers +HQSP Flowers (+Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best +Anja Wessels)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal Kumar +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Pieter Hibma)
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2013-05-28 14:28:37 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

These boots are made for walking

#Shoesday +Shoesday
#mytowntuesday +My Town Tuesday (+Melanie Kintz +Jamie Furlong)
#StreetPics +StreetPics (+Arnold Goodway +Pablo Luis Gonzalez +Monika Pia +urszula masilela +Dragos Ioneanu)
#streetphotography +StreetPhotography (+Tatiana Parmeeva +Maria Roco)

2013-05-28 13:39:17 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 31 +1s)

Way out

#transporttuesday +TransportTuesday (+Gene Bowker +Joe Paul +Michael Earley)
#hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome (+Blake Harrold +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor)

2013-05-28 12:38:31 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

Could use some love

#lonelychairtuesdays +Lonely Chair Tuesdays (+Lauri Novak +Rachel Tine)
#hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome (+Blake Harrold +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor)

2013-05-27 14:08:29 (35 comments, 1 reshares, 44 +1s)

No parking backsides here

Implements to keep people from sleeping on the sandstone alcoves of this building - Martin Place, Sydney.

#MetallicMonday +#MetallicMonday (+Thomas Raschbacher)
#DOFMonday +DOFMonday (+Mara Acoma +Mark Hall +Alan Gurling +Nigel Smith)
#DailyDepthOfField +Daily Depth Of Field (+Vince Ong +Nuraini Ghaifullah +Virgil Cowen +f.a. fiebig)

2013-05-27 12:33:23 (25 comments, 5 reshares, 24 +1s)

Playing dead

I came across this Golden Brown Stink Bug (Anchises parvulus, family Pentatomidae) on a ridge top in the Berowra Valley National Park, not far from home (in the north of Sydney). It kept walking across the sand with me chasing after it to get some shots. I brought a twig close by, which it grabbed and climbed, but then let go and landed on its back. It stayed relatively still that way for a few seconds, so I fired off a quick focus stack sequence of 7 frames. Couldn't do more as it flipped over and took off again. You can see the grains of sand stuck to it and can also see its proboscis.

#macromonday +Macro Monday (+Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley) - Bugs
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#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal Kumar... more »

2013-05-25 15:52:01 (35 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

Life is s%it

I come across these little "hairy" piles occasionally in the forest. This particular one was in a Blue Mountains valley (west of Sydney). Under all this "hair" is animal dung, and I believe what is growing on top of that is either a slime mould or a dung fungus (or more correctly coprophilous fungi). Dung fungi survive passage through the animal's gastro-intestinal tract, germinate and grow in the freshly deposited dung. They form adhesive spores which are deposited on vegetation, and are then consumed by herbivores to complete the cycle.

#shroomshotsaturday +ShroomshotSaturday (+Patti Colston +Gary Crawford +Michael Albrecht)
#fungusfriday (+Chris Sullivan +Dan Bowden)
#hsqpnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other (+Valesa Diamontes +Blake Harrold)
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2013-05-18 13:35:40 (45 comments, 4 reshares, 41 +1s)

We live in colonies - 2

Another different view of more of the fungi I found on a rotting stump of a tree in a Blue Mountains valley. You can clearly see the gills on the flared part of the stem of the stalked cups. Interesting looking lichens and mosses on that tree too.

#shroomshotsaturday +ShroomshotSaturday (+Patti Colston +Gary Crawford +Michael Albrecht)
#fungusfriday (+Chris Sullivan +Dan Bowden)
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2013-05-18 13:33:09 (24 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)

We live in colonies

During our tiring climb back out of the Blue Mountain valley last weekend, I spied a large "colony" of fungi quite a bit off the track and down the hillside. Was a bit dicey going there as it was heavily overgrown but went regardless. It was worth it. There was a dead tree (half a tree, really) still in the ground but it was full of a large number of fungi. They looked a bit like Oyster Mushrooms but were obviously not those. I can only narrow it down to the Tricholomataceae family of the Agaricales order (gilled mushrooms), and that's obviously too broad. Drosophila evidently liked them as there were quite a few fruit flies on the mushrooms (you can see a few in the image).

#shroomshotsaturday +ShroomshotSaturday (+Patti Colston +Gary Crawford +Michael Albrecht)
#fungusfriday (+Chris Sullivan +Dan Bowden)
#photojournalworldwide+... more »

2013-05-17 15:27:39 (34 comments, 4 reshares, 43 +1s)

Little purple beauty

I came across these little purple flowers in heath not far from West Head Road in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, in the north of Sydney. Quite tiny, they're less than 1 cm in diameter. They were absolutely swarming with little bugs, and you can see a couple of them here, but I couldn't see many of them with the naked eye but saw them once I looked at the photos on the computer. I couldn't find ID for the flowers but they were in the same area as lots of Pink Spider Flowers and Tea-tree flowers.

13 frame focus stack macro.

#floralfriday +FloralFriday (+Tamara Pruessner +Beth Akerman +Kiki Nelson +Eustace James)
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2013-05-17 15:20:41 (39 comments, 4 reshares, 35 +1s)

Tell me who you are

I found this "thing" sitting on the bagged wall of our deck. It's a small little thing, perhaps about 8mm in length. It stayed there for quite a while, not batting a metaphorical eyelid while I photographed it from all sides, with one flash, and then with two, or made three focus stack sequences... On the computer later, I could see that there were small movements but wasn't visible with the naked eye at the time.

Now, what is it? The wings are like those of a soldier fly (family Stratiomyiidae), but the eyes and antennae don't appear to be those of a fly.

17 frame focus stack macro.

Update: Thanks to +Seth Burgess, this is the Sugarcane (a.k.a. Australian) Soldier Fly (Inopus rubriceps). So +Shane Williams, this is a #sexyfly +Sexy Flies!

#BuggyFriday +Buggy Friday (+Ray Bilcliff +Dorothy Pugh+... more »

2013-05-14 14:08:45 (26 comments, 0 reshares, 32 +1s)

Reach for the sky

We came across quite a few of these tall guys during our bushwalk in the Blue Mountains on Sunday. This is a very old Turpentine tree (Syncarpia glomulifera). They are native to parts of New South Wales and Queensland, and can live as long as 500 years. There is a distinct smell of turpentine when you crush the leaves, hence the name.

We came across this one while descending into the valley, in the region where the wet sclerophyll forest meets the temperate rainforest. This was a huge tree, probably about 60m tall and that base was so wide it would probably take 8-9 people standing in a line next to each other to obscure the base. This is not the whole tree - its height wouldn't fit even though this was a wide angle lens.

#TreeTuesday +Tree Tuesday (+Shannon S. Myers +Christina Lawrie)
#hsqpnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other (+Valesa Diamontes... more »

2013-05-13 10:16:23 (21 comments, 2 reshares, 29 +1s)

A million pointed fingers

Don't be so quick to judge
Don't accuse because you feel you must
Not all that appears such is untrue
A million pointed fingers
Yet death lies with you.

A very close look at another Banksia - a Banksia integrifolia this time, with the remnants of a poor insect, perhaps an unfortunate ant, hanging from its styles. Sunlight streams through the outstretched pointing fingers, backlighting the flowers against a dark, green background.

#macromonday +Macro Monday (+Kerry Murphy +Jennifer Eden +Kelli Seeger Kim +Jake Easley) - Light
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2013-05-12 12:06:04 (18 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

There is still a sun!

The sun breaks through and shines into the depths of dense tree covered temperate rainforest. Had a most magical bushwalk today. Starting from one of the towns in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, we walked the tracks meandering down the steep hillsides to the bottom of the water filled valleys between the mountains. We walked through wet sclerophyll forest into temperate rainforest. In most places, little light reaches where we were walking, trees tower over our head desperately reaching for that elusive sunlight, thick vines trailing from the heights of those trees down to the fern filled undergrowth. At this spot, the afternoon sun broke through and shone at the spot where we were in the middle of a creek, bringing cheer to the gloom!

Until a few weeks ago, I'd never seen a Lyre Bird till I saw a solitary one then, which was a lifer. Today, in one... more »

2013-05-12 10:28:01 (21 comments, 3 reshares, 29 +1s)

Radioactive Saltie?

A Saltie on an outdoor wall. The flash bounced off the white wall and besides the front lighting, also backlit the Saltie, making its limbs almost translucent and added a glow near its body.

#spidersunday +Spider Sunday (+Kimberly Hosey +Mandy Allen)
#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz)
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2013-05-11 14:12:16 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

Yoo hoo! Look at me

I missed seeing this little mushroom on the way out during my bushwalk last weekend but spotted it on the way back. It was nestled under a tree root right in the middle of the bush track. A small little thing, it was probably about 3 cm in size.

#shroomshotsaturday +ShroomshotSaturday (+Patti Colston +Gary Crawford +Michael Albrecht)
#fungusfriday (+Chris Sullivan +Dan Bowden)

2013-05-10 14:36:19 (27 comments, 4 reshares, 47 +1s)

Give me five

This little beautiful flower is from the Pink Wax Flower plant (Eriostemon australasius). It is quite commonly found in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest in New South Wales and Queensland, along the east coast of Australia. The plant is from the Rutaceae (citrus) family, and puts on spectacular wildflower displays in late winter and early spring. Now that's where there is a problem. This is autumn and yet, I find this flowering all over. Somethin's not a'right.

The flower is very similar to the Boronia from the same family. However, Boronia has 4 petals whereas Eriostemon has five petals. It is a little flower - this one was just under 2cm across.

#floralfriday +FloralFriday (+Tamara Pruessner)
#hqspflowers +HQSP Flowers (+Werner Polwein +Larry Henley +Nicole Best +Anja Wessels)
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal... more »

2013-05-10 13:27:26 (53 comments, 2 reshares, 45 +1s)

And they say caterpillars are slow

Try photographing one when it doesn't want to stop walking! I chased this one for quite a while but it wouldn't stop moving. I slipped a sheet of paper under it and it stopped for a short while - long enough to fire off several frames for focus stacking. I later noticed that even though it was stationary, its last pair of prolegs kept flicking in and out and you can see the motion visible there. The paper also served to highlight it as the concrete it was on earlier was close to it in colour.

17 frame focus stack macro.

#BuggyFriday +Buggy Friday (+Ray Bilcliff +Dorothy Pugh +Sherry McBriar)
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2013-05-09 13:31:55 (44 comments, 4 reshares, 40 +1s)

Let me be. I'll be OK

I came across this bee walking fast in the sand on a fire trail in the bush. I wondered if it was injured and attempted to entice it on to a leaf to move it to the side of the trail so it wouldn't get run over in case someone else came by but it surprised me by flying but just a little and came down again. Was such a task trying to photograph it because it wouldn't stand still. After so many blurred photos, it stopped for a second because my flash was in its path and I got this shot, and even here its wing got cut off a bit in the photo.

#beethursday +Bee Thursday (+Dorothy Pugh)
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#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro (+Sandra Deichmann +Vishal Kumar +Vinod Krishnamoorthy +Charles van Dijk)
#hqspanimals +HQSP Animals (+Marina Versaci +Joe... more »

2013-05-09 12:29:42 (32 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Is he? Manly, I mean

Spotted at Balmoral Beach in Sydney.

#coastalthursday +Coastal Thursday (+David Polzine +Jon Kahn)
#thirstythursdaypics (+Giuseppe Basile +Mark Esguerra)

2013-05-08 12:25:16 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Why are they all looking at her?

#wordlessonwednesday
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