A Bee's Bum.

The 4 Spot Cup Moth Caterpillar.

This rather spectacular caterpillar has fine stinging hairs on it's body; we used to call them Spitfires when we were children. While photographing this one I inadvertently brushed my inner arm against another one that I hadn't seen.  It certainly stung me, bringing up a red welt that took some hour or so to disappear.

Alien World 2

                                       Not sure about this image, the lightning is out of scale I think.

Alien World?

This is actually a slice of polished stone, not sure what kind of stone, maybe quartz. I popped it on the scanner bed and put the resulting scan on a black background and to my mind it looks very like a moon or something similar. I think it's an image that is worth playing around with anyway. Watch this space!

Birthday Treat.

No party with balloons and games for this young man, a day at the Wildlife sanctuary and a play in the creek is much more to his liking. He did however get to pat a platypus as a very special treat, the grown-ups enjoyed the encounter just as much I think.

More Photoshop brushes.

                                 I couldn't resist making another one, it's very addictive actually.

Photoshop Brushes Play.

This looks like a bit of a mess really, but I was surprised at how complex an image can be made into a Brush in Photoshop CS4. This was originally just part of a large and complicated wooden print block that I isolated and made into a brush and printed it randomly in different colours. Lots more fun to be had here I think!

Happy 4th Birthday!

A turtle cake was requested by the birthday boy, so Mum & Dad made one, plus all the little cup cake baby turtles for the kindergarten friends.