Shooting Locations for May 2012

The first location that we decided to visit was O'Reilly's at Lamington National Park, unfortunately we decided to visit on the day of a public holiday, and there where literally thousands of people and families visiting at the same time for picnics and bar-b-ques.  Needless to say most of the wildlife disappeared into the bush for the day, and aside from the native parrots that where getting fed by all the tourists, there was very little in the way of wildlife to photograph.

This was also our first hands on use of our cameras, so most of photos didn't meet the quality standards required for stock photos.

The best photo of the day was taken just as we where leaving the car park, we spotted a small Red-necked Pademelon feeding on edge of the road. 

(From our Mostphotos Album) 

The second outing was to Roma Street Parklands.  I went to this location by myself as my sister was working.  I spent 3 hours walking around the gardens and managed to take over 400 photos.  This site is popular for photography courses, and I saw a couple of the groups there while I was wandering around.  The best photos for the day where a taken of an Australian Water Dragon (lizard) and the flowering stems of a native grass plant.

(From our Mostphotos Album)

The third location that we visited for May was the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.  We arrived early in the morning and managed to get most of our photos taken before the weekend rush of people.  This seems to be a popular site for photography courses and groups.  The best photos of the day where a purple lotus flower in the lake, a green succulent plant in the cactus display and a bird feeding from the flowers of a cactus plant.

(From our Mostphotos Album)

The last location for our May shoots was at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.  Again we spent a couple of hours wandering around the animal enclosures.  The best photos of the day where 2 taken of Kangaroos in the open enclosure, where people can wander around with kangaroos and emus.

(From our Mostphotos Album)

We managed to fit a lot of location shoots into the month of May, and managed to assemble a small set of photos as our first submission to the Microstock agencies.  I'll document how our successes and failures with these submissions in a future post.

Cheers

Fiona