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
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
Photos for Lovers of Australian Poetry
Photo a day challenge — Week 20: April 1st to April 7th, 2022 I am cheating with my feature shot this week and one later in the piece. I am selling off my old camera and so I went and downloaded remaining photos from the memory card before formatting it. I decided to use those photos to cheat… Continue reading Photos for Lovers of Australian Poetry
How Trees can Help you Love what you see in the Mirror
Why society needs to reverse its perspective on beauty and aging If you see wrinkles and blemishes and lost youth when you look in the mirror, this story is for you, and for the society you live in. Think of all the inspiring trees that you’ve seen in your lifetime in person or in photographs. Now… Continue reading How Trees can Help you Love what you see in the Mirror
Queensland Nutmeg – Plant Profile
Our very own Nutmeg and Mace! Australian Bush Tucker Bites presents Queensland Nutmeg (Myristica globosa). Related to the “true” Nutmeg, this nutmeg is a little less pungent but can be used the same way. The red aril is a native Mace. This stunning rainforest tree is visited by Metallic Starlings (Aplonis metallica) in a gregarious,… Continue reading Queensland Nutmeg – Plant Profile
Strawberry Gum
The true Aussie Strawberry to enjoy with cream! Australian Bush Tucker Bites presents Strawberry Gum (Eucalyptus olida). This one is surprising as well as stunning. Strawberry Gums are majestic giants growing more than 30 metres (100 feet) tall. They are also rare, found in one small pocket of land in Northern New South Wales. After… Continue reading Strawberry Gum
Jane Grows Garden Rooms 