Author: hawkeyx

  • Following on from yesterdays image, over the next week I have a few shots to share from a trip up the Sky Tower. Featured in a number of photos I have shown, and being about 15 years since I last went up, I thought it was about time to venture up and capture some of…

  • A shot from above. Looking down I snapped the autumn tree, its colours beaming out from both the shadows and grey city surrounding. Shot on the Nex 5N with the 55-210mm lens. In Gimp I desaturated the blue tones, giving the city buildings the mono tone. More shots from above tomorrow.

  • Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away If you can use some exotic booze There’s a bar in far Bombay Come on and fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away Come fly with me, let’s float down to Peru In llama land there’s a one-man band And he’ll toot his flute for…

  • Same as yesterday, some more interesting facts: The fastest butterflies fly at 19kph(12mph) Many butterflies can taste with their feet to test suitability for laying eggs. Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)  have been found Butterflies like to drink from mushy slices of banana, oranges and watermelon  

  • Work found me at Butterfly Creek today for an all staff meeting. After the meeting, myself and a few other staff took the opportunity to go through their butterfly enclosure (and small farmyard). I’ve been once before, so in preparation brought along my Nex 5N with a few different lens’. Unfortunately, whether due to the…