Creepy Crawlies

Well hello, and how are you all??? I am feeling a bit better! Today I think I am going to share some photos with you all that might just make you go weak in the knees!!! Creepy crawlies!! Just lots of photos...some not as clear as I would have liked but some of them I had never ever seen before!! Any clues as to there names can you fill me in please???

I took both of these first 2 photos with my GF's huge big camera and didn't really know what I had to do with it so I just hoped for the best, they look better when you make the photo full size so just click on them and that will happen.
Edited 22.3.09 - I have added a watermark to my photos compliments of Swirls & Flourishes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 by Obsidian Dawn

A Plague of Locusts(Grass-hoppers) The grass was just covered in them

Then the locusts in full flight

This is a Ant nest at Bowen River after a flood

Some kinda bug crawling in my garden

A Bush bug near the Bowen River

Some kind of spider down by the Bowen River

And another spider in my garden in his huge web,
wished I could have got a better photo!!!

I am sorry that the quality is quite poor on some of these photos....But I told you I will just about take a photo of anything! Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Variety is the spice of life

Hello my beautiful blog followers, Sorry I have been a very bad blogger!!
Well actually I have been a bit under the weather, visiting Dr's to find out what is wrong with me....I must be sick because I went away for the weekend, took 2 of my cameras with me and never took a single photo!!! This is not like me!!!

But I wanted to share with you this diverse range of photos, Variety is the spice of life and from these photos you will that I will just about take a photo of anything that visually encourages me to capture that image forever!
Edited 22.3.09 - I have added a watermark to my photos compliments of Swirls & Flourishes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 by Obsidian Dawn

Early morning Dew on a Spiders Web

Suns rays behind a cloud...Looks like Heaven to me
Fungi

I photographed these seed pods inside a piece of bamboo that was
washed up on the beach at Flying Fish Point Innisfail

A Butterfly among the rocks almost camouflaged

Thank you for all the comments that you have left me, and I am glad that I am inspiring you to take photos of different things to what you normally take photos of!!! Most of my photos are just pure strokes of genius courtesy of the my digi cameras. I don't have a fancy or expensive camera, most of my photos are taken either with my Canon Power Shot A400 - 3.1mp or Fuji Finepix S5700 - 7.1mp.
The 2 photos of the Fungi were taken with Daniek's camera (The exchange student from The Netherlands that lived with us for a year)
And I haven't even shared any of my photos from my SLR Pentax MZ-60 with you yet, it takes the most beautiful photos, but I tend not to use it as often as I should! Probably because we don't have a photo lab here in town to process my films!

Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

The Focus Is On - Sunrise and Sunsets today

Today The Focus Is On - Sunrise and Sunsets....
Sorry I haven't been back for a while to upload some new photos.Thanks for your comments on my photographs and Sue I haven't done the watermarking for my photos...gonna have a play today! Thanks for all your tutoring! Wish me luck! And I am sorry that I too have uploaded Sunset photos...I didn't realise you have until I went to get your blog addy for the link! So girls check out Sue's photos too, they are much better than mine!!
Edited 22.3.09 - I have added a watermark to my photos compliments of Swirls & Flourishes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 by Obsidian Dawn

Sunrise On a Foggy Morning

Sunset while on a fishing trip

Sunset over the Bowen River Nov 07

Sunset @ Curramundi Lakes

Later Sunset @ Curramundi Lakes

Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

My Inspiration

Just wanted to share this with you all, I challenged my scrapbooking girls to use an advertisement for a sketch for this weeks scrappin class. I wanted to share it with you all here as my new photography blog was my inspiration for this LO!!!
If you want to read the full story about this LO please visit my Scrapbooking blog - CreativeMe68.
Sorry it is not 5 more photos but there is always tomorrow for that!
Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Beautiful Blooms

Good Morning, Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! We are on cyclone alert here in Qld, but looks like the threat has passed by us without too much destruction! Though I am very worried for all those Island/Coastal communities for where the Cat 5 cyclone is positioned right now! My thoughts and prayers are with you all in this worrying time.
Edited 22.3.09 - I have added a watermark to my photos compliments of Swirls & Flourishes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 by Obsidian Dawn

Yesterday I went and took some new photos out at the Weir but none of them really grabbed my eye to share with you today... So todays theme is
Beautiful Blooms

This is the Moonlight Cactus - (Harrisia Cactus)
These blooms only ever appear during the cover of darkness
By the time the sun appears in the morning sky they close up
these photo were taken early AM

This is a close up of Crepe Myrtle
Love the colour of this plant growing in my garden
This is a bottlebrush bloom in the Noosa NP

This is a very dark photo due to the weather conditions
of a lone Daisy bloom with rain droplets on the petals
Lastly probably the most ugliest plant in the world -
Prickly Pear Cactus with it beautiful vibrant orange blooms

Well I will leave you with these photos, did you find the 2 Papuan in the photos from Fri??? Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Birdlife - Relaxing, Hungry, Cheeky, Camouflaged & Angry

Good Afternoon everyone....Thanks for visiting yesterday and leaving me some lovely comments! But after looking at the blog for a whole day with that butterfly background I decided it needed to go....I felt it was making me sad being those dreary colours!!! So here is a new background from The Cutest Blog On The Block on my blog! - Nice and bright and fresh!!! Hope you like it....
Edited 22.3.09 - I have added a watermark to my photos compliments of Swirls & Flourishes for Adobe Photoshop 7.0 by Obsidian Dawn

I have some more photos to add to my blog today....Think I might add 5 photo each day of a different theme....Today's theme is Birdlife

3 Pelicans enjoying the afternoon Sunset on Mooloolaba River

5 Hungry Rainbow Lorikeets

Up Close & Personal with a Cheeky Seagull
Can you see the 2 Camouflaged Papuan's
(relative to the Tawny Frogmouth Owl)
There is one right in the middle of the photo

There is one here below the fork of the tree on the lhs behind the large leaf

An Angry Pelican....
I had gotten too close for his likings.
I had taken 41 photographs of him already!
I was within a metre of him when I took this photo

Here's hoping these photographs inspire you to take your camera on a journey and not only photograph the things you love and adore....but photograph anything that makes you happy or that is unique! Looking forward to sharing my photographs with you....Happy Snapping, Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Nature at it's best

Here are some of my photos of Nature at it's best!!!

Storm clouds & Sunset out my front door

Bowen River Weir flood waters cascading over retaining wall Feb 08

Ulysses Butterfly in flight at Lake Barrine FNQ

The beautiful Millaa Millaa Falls FNQ

Mirror image of the Daintree River/Mountains/Sky

These are just a sample of the kind of photos I like to take...Nature spots are my favorites! Please feel free to check out my photos anytime you wish, I would love it if you became a follower and left me comment if you desire. Looking forward to sharing my photographs....Happy Snapping. Point, Focus and Shoot!!
Luv Shaz xoxo

The Focus Is On You

Welcome to my personal photographic blog - The Focus Is On You. As my bio says I have been taking photos for longer than I can remember!!! I surround myself with photos of my family and friends throughout the house.
Since starting scrapbooking in 2002, I have taken so many more photos than ever before. Photos of things that I would never have taken before....I would love to join a photography club and learn so much more about this wonderful hobby, that captures the photographs that help us to remember the wonderful moments we share...This is why I want to share my photos with you!

I have so many great photos that I would love to share with you all, at the moment it is usually only my family and few friends who get to see my photos. But of course there are the ones that I scrapbook and upload to my personal blog - CreativeMe68 . I love seeing those on a LO that I have created. Hope you enjoy my photos too!

Please feel free to check out my photos anytime you want to,I would love it if you became a follower and left me a comment from time to time if you so desire! Looking forward to sharing my photos with you and taking the perfect photo....until next time Happy Snapping. Point, Focus and Shoot! Luv Shaz xoxo