Native parrots...

I went for a drive today to the Sherbrooke Forest near Melbourne.

I actually went to see if I could get some good photos of the tall gum trees in the area but I chose the wrong time of day for that.

The parrots in the area are very friendly although the woman who stuck her finger in the air got it bitten because the parrots thought she had food for them...

I can't believe how good a couple of these images are. The small images here don't do them justice...

Cockatoo... The males and females look the same...

King Parrot - Male

King Parrot - Female


Kookaburra

More flowers...

These are the same flowers I used the other day but they have changed since then. The centres have opened up and look almost fluffy.

Just experimenting with depth of field and composition.

Colour perception test...

How well do you see colour?

I found a test that will accurately tell you how "well" you see colour...

According to the test 1:255 women and 1:12 men have some form of visual colour deficiency.

The lower score you get the better the results. I have a really good quality Eizo monitor that was calibrated a couple of months ago (if I was producing images for clients I would calibrate it fortnightly) and I scored 3. I will calibrate my monitor and try again one day soon.

Try it out... Here...

Where does my head go...?

I was sitting at work the other day, thinking... Fairly profound thoughts really.

I remembered a time when I was in high school all those years ago and one of my friends very excitedly pointed out that it was 12:34 on the 5th of the 6th of 1978 (12345678 - if you didn't pick it up). There has got to be a name for this type of thing and it doesn't happen that often.

Then I realised (a couple of days early instead of a couple of days late)... On the 7th of August 2009 at 5:06 am the sequence will be 05:06 07/08/09...

I was probably thinking this as I was trying to work out another date for my first photo tutorial class. Of all the people I sent out the message to for last weekend only one could make it. He then had to cancel because of work commitments... Sigh, it will happen one day I'm sure...