David de Groot @david
Photographer, foodie, Dad Joke aficionado from Cedar Creek, Old, Australia. Mostly a Canon EOS system shooter with some fairly decent lenses.
Whoohoo! Got some radio telescopes with the milky way.
This is part of the Australian Compact Telescope Array, at Narrabri, NSW.
Very excited to have captured a photo of one of these guys.
It's a Splendid fairy-wren. While we get Superb fairy-wren's at home, these guys don't come that far north or east, and are so much prettier.
@katebowles It's pretty good, for sure, although possibly better without the outrageous winds ;-)
We visited the Living Desert Sculpture Garden this afternoon. It's about 5km or so north of Broken Hill. I was hoping to be able to stay until after dark for some milky way shots, but the gates close at 18:30 which meant that wasn't going to happen.
Also, it was very exposed and blowing 35-40kph winds.
The sculptures themselves were built by Intl artists in 1993 for a Sculpture Symposium and are situated on a small hill with 360º views.
@kemonine problem is, I tend to delete those.
@kemonine maybe, but there's no point posting those ;-)
@Sebastian Sick? Damn, I'd have been devastated if that were me.
Kangaroos in the desert not far from Silverton.
We took a side track, on my daughter's advice (turned out it didn't go anywhere except past these roos).
Another shot of the echidna we encountered on the edge of the Mundi Mundi Plains this afternoon. A decent sized fellow, who didn't seem to be too bothered about our presence, and wandered right past me as I sat on the rocks taking photos.
Later, we found a spot in the desert to catch the sunset.
#Photography #Sunset #Desert
https://photog.social/media/ccYtalyGtbkS813Xl0A
Today's adventure saw us on the edge of the Mundi Mundi Plain in outback New South Wales. A vast expanse of red dirt and salt bush, and this little fellow, an Echidna.
#Photography #Monotreme #animal
https://photog.social/media/ZXlKQXHtqRpDi3mHmOI
@Algot yeah it takes about 3-4 hours to drive across it at 110kph. Walking would be a bad idea.
I present to you, the Hay Plains. Possibly the most boring landscape you will ever see.
https://flic.kr/p/XFM1KZ
@madcam Hellooooo
Tonight I made it a point to get a halfway decent shot of the moon despite the clouds.
Thanks go to @eylul for getting me to think about it 😉
Leaden Flycatcher on my clothesline just now. Seems to be less worried about humans than some other birds around here.
#Bird #Photography
https://photog.social/media/qO8LIcK_5XaHTRujfb8
Just some eucalyptus flowers shot from my veranda.
https://photog.social/media/p7U9FXcblHvTUwuS7RM
@kemonine Tiny jumping spiders are cool though. Esp. the Peacock spiders.
Yeah, my wife deals with the spiders, I take care of the snakes.
@kemonine neat! And yes, big fan of animals, pretty much all of them (except spiders, not a big fan of spiders).
@kemonine A mate of mine in Sydney lost his photo mojo for a while, didn't shoot for about 2 years! Back into it now though.