Art and Photography, Featured, News from the Studio, Wildlife 7 March 2010

If you love animals, nature and art you will enjoy these quarterly eZines published by Oz Wildlife Art.  These gorgeous magazines are designed to be read using your computer which eliminates packaging, postage, paper and printing which is good news for trees and the planet.  Your purchase will also help …

 News from the Studio 21 February 2010

This eZine just keeps growing and this edition is jumbo sized with 62 pages of inspirational goodies for you to enjoy. I would like to thank all of the talented artists who have very kindly contributed to this edition.

 Art and Photography, Featured, News from the Studio 22 February 2010

This DVD Rom contains 460 high resolution, 300 dpi photographs of animals, insects, flowers, birds, feathers, reptiles and fish. These photographs have been taken by Lesley Smitheringale and are totally copyright free for both personal and commercial use so you can use them as reference for your artwork, in scrapbooks, projects, wallpapers etc.

 Cats, Featured 7 March 2010

Merlo, our chocolate point ragdoll kitten is coming up for his 1st Birthday on 20 March and he has been quite a handful!  As a younger kitten, he hated being shut up anywhere (and still does), never seemed to sleep and terrorised our older cat. My husband and I eventually …

 Garden Guests Diary 6 March 2010

I see these birds often in my garden but they are so wary of me that I don’t even come close to pointing my camera lense at them.  Today, this juvenile came down and was perched on our pool fence with a couple of noisy miners.  I took these shots …

 Featured, Garden Guests Diary 6 March 2010

I was kindly invited into a neighbour’s garden the other day who has a passion for orchids. One of the more unusual exotic plants I was lucky enough to see and photograph is a black bat plant (Tacca chantrieri) and I have never seen anything like it before.

 Wildlife 3 March 2010

This will make you smile and it is an ad shot at 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera.  These dogs are just adorable and the filming is sensational.

 Featured, News from the Studio 28 February 2010

I tried something a bit different in this artwork and I am enjoying working with silhouettes, patterns and layers at the moment. I like the simplicity of this new artwork and it has an oriental feel. I hope you like it.

 Featured, Freebies 28 February 2010

A roundup of some fantastic nature wallpapers and all totally free

 Competitions 27 February 2010

The inaugural 2010 EPSON International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. Advances in digital photography and software such as …

 Art and Photography, Featured 27 February 2010

I got a lovely surprise to find out my blog has been included in “50 Amazing Nature Photography Bloggers” which is on a site that aims to find the top online photography schools and colleges.

 Featured, Garden Guests Diary, Wildlife 26 February 2010

Looks as if these critters were enjoying an early morning drink from the dew drops on the allamanda flowers. I am particularly pleased with the macro photograph of the ant and it’s my sharpest one yet of these tiny, tiny insects who don’t stay still for long and are not terribly cooperative when it comes to being at the end of my lense!