BCC End Of Year Awards Night 2012

 Well Done Ron Speed Photographer Of The Year

 Splendid Effort To Les Wiles Creative Guru.

 Good To See The Ladies Enjoying The Night.

 Allan Davis(Mr AV.) Excepts His Award For Av Aggregate for 2012.

 George Greblo Receives Congratulations From Andrew Leed Our President.

Val's Trivia Questions Were A Big Hit Again.

Controlled Burn Eaglehawk !!!

 A View From Williams Rd Across Loddon Valley Hwy Near Allies Hotel

 Bendigo Fire Services At Work (11:30)

 Another View

Burn Off Continues (11:45)

HDR - 3 images

HDR - 5 images

Pity about the tourist in the way..

Photos From A Property Near Nymagee NSW

 A Very Nervous Wild Goat

 Red Caped Robin (Female)

Female Red Caped Robin

Whipstick Echidnas

 Anyone capture these cute little fellows ?

These two were photographed just down the road from Notley's Reserve.

Photos courtesy of Steven Willcock !!

More Whipstick Wildflowers

 Wax Lip Orchid

 Common Fringe Lily

 Cat's Claw Grevillea

Gorse Bitter Pea (Shadbolts Reserve)

Flower Shooters

The elusive subject

Where's Wally?

Do you want a hand to get up?

Wally?

(sorry Boyd, couldn't help myself)

Outing To The Whipstick (Carolyn Compston)

 The Bush In Sepia

 The Dam At Notley's Reserve

Joy & Les Photographing The Wattle

Graffiti Artist

Wildflowers

Looking forward to next Sunday's Wildflower event.

Bring your Camera, Macro Lens or Extension Tube(s).

The above photo was taken today with a 50mm and 36mm of Extension Tubes.

Oh, and don't forget that we will be having a BBQ so bring some food to cook!

Meet at the clubrooms, leaving at around 10:00am.

Weekend in Jamieson

Dodged the rain nicely and had two glorious days by the Jamieson River
The 100-400 works a treat Andrew.

Karijini National Park WA

These are two of the many waterfalls at Karijini NP in WA.
This is also where my Camera went for a swim and where we got a broken front windscreen
on the 4WD which was only a month old at the time.

Blending Three Photos - some tutorials

You might find these useful for the next club competition set subject "Image Combination".
The challenge requires your final image to be made up of three separate images. These images can be overlapping, "cutout" (extracted) or merged (blended).

Here are the three main techniques you might use and some tutorials you might find useful:

Erase (PSE, Photoshop CS)

Erase everything you don’t want - BUT erasing is permanent so you can’t easily undo your changes without starting again from scratch
Face on a Pear
How to Combine Photos Using Photoshop Elements 10 (or earlier versions - uses magnetic lasso)

Clipping Mask (PSE, Photoshop CS)

The mask is a separate layer that you “clip” your image to. In this method
transparent = conceal
everything else = reveal
You can clip multiple layers to the one clipping mask.
Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster simple tutorial

Layer Mask (PSE 9+, Photoshop CS)

This method gives you the most power because mask is added directly to the same layer as the photo.
On the layer mask you use a gradient or paint brush to paint in the areas you do want using white, paint out the areas you don’t want using black (NOT by erasing)

 “black conceals and white reveals”. 

Photoshop Elements: Creating composite images | lynda.com tutorial youtube
Adding Reflections to Sunglasses - Photoshop Tutorial
Bride and Groom on a Wineglass

Keep That Lens Covered Mark. One back !!

Blacksmith at Echuca

More photos of our day trip to Echuca online at markdf.smugmug.com

Broken Hill - Sculpture

Broken Hill Sculptures

While some were in rainy Melbourne ...

Power boats at Port Macquarie NSW

Open House Weekend

 Graffiti in Hosier Lane

 Garry Bring Up the Rear In Hosier Lane

 Andrew Riding The Pig We Think !!

 Esther & Pam Chilling Out In Myers !

 Rhonda Avoiding the Rain. Check Out The Background.

One Of The Colors Of Hamer Hall. Spectacular.

Birds At Highlands Near Yea

 Eastern Spinebill  Highlands Vic.

 Crimson Rosella Highlands near Yea

Australian Grebe