Feathered fruit.

What I imagine my house-bound cat thinks about:

Ears
pricked forward
leaves rustle
breeze ruffles
her fur.

Stillness
she crouches
tail flicks
she picks
the juiciest fruit.

Feathered fruit
ripe for the taking
it hops along branches
and she is racing –
racing across the grass
she must fly past
the lowest branches.
She springs from her haunches
cat flying, cat frenzied,
ball of fur ball of death
flying towards them –
they scream!

The kill is clean.
She lands,
four paws stand
back on the earth.

Now a dearth
of juicy feathered fruit
in the tree.

Country sunset

A sunset in northern Victoria, looking out across the fields.

Great Barrier Reef

My partner and I took a trip up north to Airlie Beach and spent a day on the outer reef. We hired a Go Pro and visibility wasn’t fantastic, but I thought I’d share some of the pictures. Oh, also, I was spending a good deal of my time focusing on breathing instead of taking photos (plus, fish move really quickly!), but there are some fun ones in the batch.

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Playing on a stormy beach

So I went camping down at Blanket Bay in the Otways National Park in Victoria and it pretty much rained the whole time. However, there was brief enough respite for me to go down to the water and play around with lighting and angles and such.

China Town alley way

So I took my camera to Melbourne’s CBD on a Saturday night without doing any research into taking night photos. Turns out I know nothing at this point, and I only managed to pull one photo from the batch. Guess I should do some research 

Random shots

More photos

A weekend in Port Arlington, along the Victorian coast, gave me the chance to test out some beachy images.

 

First portrait

Pretty self explanatory, I think. A silly one, but I like it.

 

Bees

So these are pretty low quality, my first attempt ever at taking up close photos of, well, anything. Mostly automatic settings with the lens on 55, and a few dials turned towards taking close up images.

New camera

I just bought my first proper camera, something for more than tipsy shots of Thai beaches. However, my only available subject until this evening (I’m house bound in order to get an assignment done) is my cat.

So here she is, being pensive, then making like a jungle cat and finally, queen of the world (from the perspective of her humble subject):