Testing...Testing...

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Testing the new Camera...

Rainbow Lorikeet in the Grevillea




The day finally arrived
when I took delivery
of my new camera
Oh Happy Days...

Grevillea in the park in my street




I have been reading the manual
slowly
absorbing bit by bit

Honeyeater in Pink grevillea




the potential of this
wonderful piece of technology

and then I wander
around the street

by the river's edge

and snap away...


a great egret
ardea alba
all white
and elegant
but with a low pitched
rattling croak...

testing

catching a magpie
fighting the blustery breeze
to stay aloft
in the casuarina tree










I test the distance
over which
I can capture a clear shot
Across my river
about 60 metres
I can see
the Brahminy Kite nest

with a resident in view









and resting kites
come into focus

and when Harold and Maude
return at bath time

I am poised and ready

The pansies put up with
another macro session

the bromeliad

and poinsettia oblige

while Harold
has had enough -
No more posing for today
photo shoot is over...

and for Marion
I capture a rare Dragonfly
in my neck of the woods,
and see with great excitement
that he has diamonds
on the tips of his wings

I climb up and over
the Noosa Hill
with camera in my hand
a lot heavier
than a little happy snapper

but I am rewarded

by the glow
of the sinking sun

and even a turkey
that appears
under the pandanus tree

Today
I learn
that I have
a super Macro setting

and as I sit
in the warm sun
on the deck
I snap at what I think
is a sparrow
on the neighbour's jetty
and am surprised
that my new camera
tells me otherwise



oh what wondrous new vision
I have been given...


I think
I am going to get
much pleasure
from my new camera



What do you think...



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