Mild tempered wildlife

Sometimes you get the opportunity to go somewhere that has wildlife that isn't too worried about people. Luckily for me, there's plenty of places like this in Australia. These couple of photos are of a Curlew which was part of family I found. I was able to get within inches of this one, It just laid still as if it were wary of me but unlike Curlews normally do, it didn't worry about me enough to run off.

I had no idea how brightly coloured their eyes were until now, and although they aren't the most colourful or active birds, they still have a pretty interesting personality. the reason why I couldn't get a photo of the other parent or the young Curlew was because they were way too intrigued by what on earth my camera was and why it kept making noises, and they wouldn't stay still (apparently, camera lenses look edible to a Curlew).
Next time I'm out that way though I will try to take a few of the younger one anyway, but I don't like my chances of it not running around like a maniac...

Messing around with HDR

HDR (or high dynamic range) photography is very much untouched territory for me, until now. In the last few days I have been screwing around with my camera and photoshop to make HDR images via trial and error, because I really love the whole surreal look of some HDR photos for some reason.

I have to be honest, I'm not very good at them at all, but I'm slowly improving. So here is the single fruit of my work so far, a HDR photo of a Nerf Recon. Like it, or hate it, because I can't really decide what side of the fence I'm on with this one.