Shutter entry and Cute Baby Galahs

I would like to let everyone know who visits my blog that I am involved in this great photo challenge over at Shutter. They would love you to play along with them.....just click on the link. This weeks theme is 'Pastime' so here is my entry
Here are some Baby Galahs that were in a tree in the backyard yesterday. I was probably standing about 8 metres under them. So I am pretty happy with the photos that I got of them. Simply click on the photo for a up close look at these cute lil babies.
This is probably my favourite out of all I took yesterdayAnd this one
And this is so cute
Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

New Life - Oleander Crow

I am 41 yrs of age and I don't ever recall seeing one of these in my life...
So I am very excited to have actually seen part of the life cycle of a Butterfly.

On Saturday while I had Treena & Jeff still visiting I saw this thing hanging off of my Hoya (wax plant) and I was like OMG OMG!!! I was so excited....so I quickly raced inside and grabbed my camera(of course) and proceeded to take a million photos of the chrysalis.....So then over the course of the next 4 days I watched it get darker and darker and then yesterday morning I saw that it was very black and I was like OH NO I am going to miss the butterfly emerging from the pupa. You see I was going to Ayr yesterday for a Chiro appointment, so I left a note at the computer to jog Kirrily's memory so that she could take a photo of it! She actually missed the moment it emerged from the pupa but she actually got the photo of the butterfly before it flew away. It normally take about 2 weeks for the butterfly to form, so it must have been hanging there for a whole week and I hadn't even noticed it.

This butterfly is a Common Australian Crow - Euploea core corinna

Here are my photos

I am so happy that we got to see the butterfly....I would have wished I got to see the moment as it was emerging from the chrysalis, but I am just happy to have finally seen one with my own eyes. Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

A bit of everything

Good Morning one and all....These first 3 photos were taken near the river or on one of our many drives to the river! If I don't go to the river about 20-30 mins drive away at least once a week, I start to go crazy!!! The river is my happy place!

This photo was taken on one of my early morning photo sessions...We were out taking photos of Moonlight Cactus to capture them before they close up at dawn

This sunset was taken near Nebo/Glenden when there was a huge fire around somewhere. The red glow from the fire just set the sun alight!!!
Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Dragonflies, Almost Butterflies, Bugs, Spiders and Bambi

The first two dragonflies are Treena's Dragonflies....I have never ever seen a green dragonfly!


These are all my photos now!!!




Well everybody just a quick post today....Hope I can inspire you all to go out and take some photos. I am so glad that I have inspired you Angie to go out and take some new photos, as I love the photos that you have taken and shared with us all. I would also like you all to pop over to my friend Sue's photo blog! She has taken some really cool photos lately. Especially one that looks like Australia!
Ok bye for now, have a great day! Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Hibiscus

Hello everyone....I have been madly taking photos this past week! I have taken about 600 photos since this time last Sat!!! I know I have an obsession with my camera at the moment!!! I take photos of just about anything! The photos I want to share with you are from my garden and my friends garden here in town! They are of a hibsicus flower! Hope you like them, might enter some of these in the local show for the photography section! Hopefully I might win a prize or two for them.
Hope you are all having a great weekend and I am Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo

Mystery Drive....to all this beauty

Finally I have the time to get around to sharing some more of my photos with you. These were taken on Easter Sun when Baz & I went for a Mystery Drive to what I thought would be Mt Dangar!!! But as I said in my blog post we didn't get to where I wanted to go, BUT! I got to take some lovely scenery photos along the way!

We think this is Mt Dangar! Still don't know though! LOL

The Don river with a Jabiru in it
Dead Trees were a highlight

An Abandoned Homestead and the family horse
Another Dead Tree

So we decided to go to Bowen and spend the rest of our day exploring the beach and relaxing by the beach and these are the photos that I took .

Washed up seed pod on the beach
New growth of Mangroves
Seashell
Murray's Bay Beach at Sunset

Sorry there are so many it is hard just to choose only a couple to capture this day! Even though it was overcast most of the day I love the photos that I took!!
My favourite would have to be the seed pod!!!

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

Totally random and a lil bit naughty

Hello one and all....Here's hoping today is a beautiful day for you all!!
Hope you all have a wonderful Easter and happy holidays!
Just wanted to share with you some totally random photos and one that's a lil bit of naughty photo! Funny Naughty!!!

Here's another what is it photo????
Looks a lot like a bear hugging my mango tree....but NO! That isn't it!!!
Will tell you at the end of this post.
The next photo is of raindrops on the long grass at the river when it was in flood last year! I took this photo with my friend Marissa's old camera Canon EOS 350D while she was playing with her new camera Canon EOS-1D Mark III.
This photo is of a Tree at Eungella National Park.....Love how the vines have become part of the tree....
Up close and personal with a cicada
And this last photo is a lil bit naughty....But I did warn you I take the photos of everything!!! We were on holidays at Mission Beach and I saw this photo opportunity!!!And the answer to my question in the 1st photo is.... A Swarm of Bees took over my mango tree. It was totally random chance that I got this photo!!!
My Son Jeff was mowing our lawn and had been in the backyard for quite some time and I went down to give him a drink and that was when I noticed the black thing in the mango tree!!! I was like get away from there!!! Obviously the queen bee had moved the hive and all of the workers just followed! We left them alone and the next morning they were gone!!! Just lucky for me that I saw them because Jeff didn't!!!

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

This place takes my cares away...

This is my happy place, the one place that takes my cares away!!! I always feel so relaxed and happy when I come back from the Bowen River!!! Just wanted to share these photos with you. It was about 5 pm when we got out to the river, so yes these photos are a lil dark! They have a natural late afternoon ambiance!!!

The first photo is of a Butterfly (of course, I had to take a photo of them because I LOVE Butterflies) The next photos are of the River with it's stunning reflections from the sunset....

Another photo of a Butterfly way up high on a tree...
Hope you feel relaxed now too! Looking forward to sharing more photographs with you all, in the mean time Happy Snapping! Point, Focus and Shoot!! Luv Shaz xoxo