Be sure not to miss...

A great post on how Gouldiae builds nest boxes. Be sure not to miss it!

http://gouldiaesblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-i-do-nest-boxes.html

http://gouldiaesblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/looking-promising.html

How fast

People sometimes ask me how fast my camera is. I answer: "It is fast. It takes five photos in a second with shutter speed up to 1/8000." What does this mean in real life? The illustration is below. These images were taken in a shadow at dusk at ISO 640 and speed of 1/2000. I could have probably achieved better result at 1/1600. This is a point and shoot sequence. What I did was to choose the settings i thought would be appropriate for the lighting conditions and the action that I was about to photograph, then wait, then follow the target and press and hold the button. The photos came out underexposed so I did some color correction in Photoshop. The newer DSLR models should be even faster, have better auto-focus and produce more detailed images.

Pacific Black Duck, Tasmania

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Be sure not to miss...

I'm creating a new label today – Be sure not to miss... With it I will tag posts that link to other posts on other nature blogs or sites. Every now and then I come across posts that I like so much and I think that visitors of my blog would like too...

And to start with, here's a link to a fantastic post about a Tawny Frogmouth family. Be sure not to miss it!

http://sandystraitsandbeyond.blogspot.com/2008/11/tawny-frogmouths.html

Splash in focus

Silver Gull, Tasmania

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A free trip to New Holland (meal included)

New Holland Honeyeater, Tasmania

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Do you love Galahs?

I do! Let's see if you remember how to recognize the ladies from the gentlemen (gentleparrots to say...)

Galah, Tasmania

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Promote PoAA! – a button for your blog or site

I've been thinking to create a promotional button for Portraits of Australian Animals for its anniversary, but then I didn't have the time. Now the button is ready and you can easily post it to your sites or blogs by copying and pasting the code below:

- plain clickable button

<a href="http://tilcheff.blogspot.com/" title="portraits of australian animals" ><img border="0" alt="PoAA!!" src="http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3888/blogbuttonel4.png" width="88" height="30" /></a>

- clickable button in a box

<div style=" border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding: 3px; background: white; width: 88px; height: 30px; text-align: center "><a href="http://tilcheff.blogspot.com/" title="portraits of australian animals"><img border="0" alt="PoAA!!" width="88" src="http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3888/blogbuttonel4.png" height="30" /></a></div>

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