Simple tips to improve your bee photography Take it back to the hive! Try editing your shots and shoot RAW if you have the storage. The species in the feature photo is Tetragonula clypearis and I love this photo because they’re tiny. They are in fact one of Australia’s smallest stingless bees. They are 3.5mm… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos- Tip Five
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Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Four
Simple tips to improve your bee photography Tip Four – Bee-yond Auto It’s great having a phone in your pocket everywhere you go and most of the time pointing your phone and shooting is enough to get a good shot UNLESS it’s a tiny, fast moving subject. If that’s the case a DSLR makes things… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Four
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Three
Simple Tips to improve your Bee Photography Tip Three- Set up a Sting-less Operation I often get asked how I manage to capture bees in flight. Well, it links back to frequency – I’m out there a lot! Obviously light comes into it but there’s another tactic I employ and that has to do with… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip Three
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos Tip Two
Simple Tips to improve your Bee Photography Tip Two – Bee-Lightful Photography is all about light and capturing that light. For tiny subjects like bees, lighting is even more important. You need the light to highlight the details, but too much light creates shadows that obscure parts of the bee. You need to One of… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos Tip Two
Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip One
Simple tips to improve your bee photography Recently I was asked to give a presentation about bee photography for the Australian Native Bee Association branches in Brisbane and on the Cassowary Coast. Here’s the blog version – follow to make sure you get all five tips! Rather watch or listen than read? Watch on YouTube… Continue reading Five Tips for Un-bee-lievable Photos – Tip One
One Simple Habit Helped My Nature Photography
How did a writing platform help me take better photographs? When I began writing on Medium it felt like a wonderful creative release. I’d written my whole life and I’d blogged for a couple of years but the opportunities provided by this platform appeared very exciting indeed. Unfortunately that enthusiasm waned but many of the… Continue reading One Simple Habit Helped My Nature Photography
Defender of the City: how stingless bees protect their hives
If I started waxing lyrical about how much more there is to bees than honey, you might think I’m going to go on about pollination and food crops and so on. Well not today. Today I want to talk about a bee product that is just as amazing and potentially beneficial but no one seems… Continue reading Defender of the City: how stingless bees protect their hives
A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close
Photostory Photo a Day Challenge A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close Photo a Day Challenge: Week 59 — January 13th to January 19th As our Northern Hemisphere moves through Winter, we are in the height of Summer. Our five-week break over Christmas and New Year ended this week and the last two days were… Continue reading A Blur of Activity as Summer Holidays Draw to a Close
Backyard Biodiversity Back on the Agenda
Have you noticed lately that backyard biodiversity is being talked about more? That’s great for the wood wide web that development disrupts! And it’s great for me because I get to talk about the things that I am passionate about. So much so that I was invited to contribute to another blog! We were featured… Continue reading Backyard Biodiversity Back on the Agenda
Cassowary Coast Oceanside
Exploring Cassowary Coast Nature in a yacht – Blog post coming soon… This trip has been postponed due to weather… ahh mother nature at work!
Jane Grows Garden Rooms 