Budgies at Gundabooka NP – the back of Bourke

Australia, birds, desert, Gundabooka NP, NSW, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Incoming rain storms cut the Gundabooka National Park trip short by a day, The Doc still got plenty of images. Here is a selection of budgies. Must click image to see full size (it is worth it).

Major Mitchell Cockatoos, Cockateils, Bourke Parakeets, Chestnut-breasted Quail Thrush, wrens and emus to come in later posts.

Crimson finch – blacked belly

4X4, Australia, AWC, birds, Kimberley, Mornington, Mornington, WA, Wildlife

The Doc could not travel to the Kimberly this year, so he is visiting images from his last trip in 2015. Here are the Crimson finch, the black bellied subspecies. Click on image to see full size.

Back in Sydney

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The Doc is back in Sydney to deal with registration of the Patrol and the off-road camper. That’s all now done.

Unfortunately, The Doc had to completely rebuild his home PC twice in the last three weeks! The first was caused by a corrupt Windows installation, then two weeks later the boot drive failed.

The Doc is planning his next trip. First, he will explore around the south coast at Bendalong and Bermagui. Then a trip up to Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo, the Pilliga and on to Gundabooka near Bourke.

Tony Stott F1 images

Tony Stott

The Doc has been doing some tests with Tony Stott’s Monaco F1 images – report here. Because of the film speed some of the images are blurred, not surprising as even modern cameras struggle using much higher ISO speeds.

So The Doc tried some new software on the images, which helps sharpen, stablise and improve focus. Here is one image, the before and after are identical except the after was run through Topaz Sharpen using the stabilise mode. What a huge difference, especially the race car.

The Doc will revisit the full size images in the coming weeks.

BEFORE
BEFORE
AFTER

Second example, even bigger improvement with this image.

BEFORE
AFTER

On the road again

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In Ballina doing work around the house. Doing plenty of whale watching out the window as the humpbacks head north. Have spent some time with a friend testing flashes and looking for places to do bird photography.

Back to high pressuring cleaning all the concrete and verandas.