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The Tale of a Crimson Rosella
A Few days ago, at the time of writing this, I was walking home from my regular outings to our local Wetlands when I saw this lovely Crimson Rosella standing quietly amongst the dappled light. Where I live the Crimson Rosella is common to see and sometimes that means when people see the image they take it and the bird for granted. I am glad this lovely bird is not amongst the endangered and so I can still enjoy its beauty and its quiet nature. With bird flu now in Australia I will never take any of our wonderful birds for granted and neither should you.. With life being financially harder for many people instead of fretting over why you can’t have that overseas holiday why not take a trip to your local park or wetland and enjoy watching birds like this going about their day. You may enjoy it and better yet it won’t impact your battered finances. And finally it may give you a greater appreciation of what you have rather than felling discontented with what you don’t. Let the Crimson Rosella represent the end of conspicuous consumption and consumerism driven by corporations and advertisers trying to keep you discontented with your life. but find meaning in the simple pleasures of being alive amongst the beauty of the natural world.
Take in Colour Think in Black & White
I was out yesterday taking a walk in our local wetlands with the aim of finding some birds to photograph. I took out my iPhone and snapped a wide angle view of part of the wetlands mainly to show the water level. I took the original image in colour and found because of my angle to the light the colours did not look good. I decided to convert the image to black and white and you can see the result below. I liked the black and white but I had not just tried converting to see what it might look like. When I was looking to take the shot I was thinking amongst other things what it could look like as a black and white image.
The Little Pied Cormorant.
Today with the winter weather finally improving I went for a walk out to our local wetlands to see if I could find some birds to photograph. Out on a tall thin tree in the middle of the wetlands a Little Pied Cormorant was standing imperiously looking over its domain and also looking for a feed. then it flew out of my line of sight and a few minutes later it cam back onto the branch. It was wet from diving into the water and so it spread its wings to the weak winter sunshine to dry. It was lovely to see this bird especially with the ever increasing cloud of Bird Flue slowly encroaching further inland. While the rest of my local community seems to be ignoring the oncoming Bird Flue all I can do is document what birdlife I can while hoping it will not be as bad as we are being told. So good luck Little Pied Cormorant. May you continue to outrun this wretched Flue and may I see you again imperiously watching over your domain.
In the old Days
I posted this link mainly because this website and in the information on it are examples of the the web was like before the grotesque era of social media. it is not a pretty site but it provides a lot of useful information and it was created via a Creative Commons licence and those who built and manage it do it for free. Yes no influencers and supposed content creators but people who embodied one of the original aims of the internet being the free sharing of information and resources. It is why I have a resources page on my website with links to things I find interesting and maybe you will to. Take a look at the archives site listed below. It's very interesting and almost a time-capsule to the way websites looked in the mid 1990s