One Four Challenge – May Week 1

I missed the regular rhythm of the One Four Challenge and have been looking forward to the month of May, to resume this interesting photo editing exercise.  For those not familiar with the One Four Challenge, this is a photo editing project hosted by Robyn Gosby at Captivate Me, whereby we select an image and…

One photo focus – May

For the first time ever, I am participating in another photography project, hosted by Stacy Fischer at Visual Venturing.  What makes “One Photo Focus” interesting is that it challenges photographers from around the globe to focus their image processing talents on a single image.  Yes, we are all working on the same picture!  This happens on…

Yellow-Billed Spoonbill

Bird Photography Challenge #17: Yellow-Billed Spoonbill

A distinctive and handsome wader, the Yellow-Billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes) is sensitive to changing water availability.  You often see pairs, but less frequently do they appear in large flocks.   So when in November after a period of heavy rainfall a large group was feeding in the Western Wetlands, near Melbourne, it was a delight to…