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Australian Bush ☼ (aspects of realistic Landscapes - ie N0 Abstracts or Macros please!)

This group is for all your beautiful stories & LANDSCAPE images of the Great Australian Bush. CURRENT GROUP NEWS INFO in the FORUM - PLEASE JOIN IN!

Featured Work

sulfur sunset gazing by troy gregory

A Sufur Crested Cockatoo stands guard to his home, family safley inside he feels safe…Waterfall Gully South Australia
Where there's a will, there's a way... by Paul Moore

The hardiness and opportunistic survival instincts of the Red Centre’s Flora and Fauna never ceased to amaze me. / Anything that survives out here deserves respect and protection! Larapinta Trail, West MacDonnell Ranges, NT. Canon 40D. f/4, 1/125, ISO 100
Passion, WA Wildflowers by Malcolm Katon

Some beautiful pink wildflowers spotted on our recent trip to Western Australia. These were taken near the town of Miling.
Grevillea In The Wind by MissyD

Nikon D40x / 18-55mm Nikkor Lens / Straight from camera Featured In: Australian Bush Group
Pixie Mops (Petrophile linearis) by Hans Goepel

Nikon D300 = Tokina..12-24mm / Friday, 23 October 2009 / Pixie Mops PLEASE VIEW LARGE…FOR A BETTER IMAGE / ALL COMMENTS AND FAVS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED I WILL VIEW YOUR ART WORK SOON. / I LIKE TO SPEND MORE TIME IN YOUR PORTFOLIO THAN REPLY TO EACH AND EVERY COMMENT !! Thank you very much for viewing my work / /
Camouflaged by Lyn Thom

The Swift Parrot is small parrot about 25 cm long. It is bright green with red around the bill, throat and forehead. The red on its throat is edged with yellow. Its crown is blue-purple. There are bright red patches under the wings. One of most distinctive features from a distance is its long (12 cm), thin tail, which is dark red. This distinguishes it from the similar lorikeets, with which it often flies and feeds. Can also be recognised by its flute-like chirruping or metallic “kik-kik-kik” call. / The Swift Parrot breeds in Tasmania during spring and summer, migrating in the autumn and winter months to south-eastern Australia from Victoria and the eastern parts of South Australia to south-east Queensland. In NSW mostly occurs on the coast and south west slopes. Migrates to the Australian south-east mainland between March and October. The Swift Parrot Scientific name is Lathamus discolor, the Conservation status in NSW is Endangered and the National conservation status is Endangered.
Dryandra 4 by Philip Cannon

Taken in the Kalbarri National Park.
Baby Magpie 2 by Werner Padarin

Feeding / / (ref fotoWERNER 3H0910.1271) / Nikon D300 | Sigma 120-400OS @ 400mm / 1/500s f/5.6 ISO200 / Featured in Australian Bush group (24 October 2009) /

Recent Work

Morning Frost and Fog by Joe Mortelliti

Taken on Fuji slide film many years ago in country Victoria and recently scanned by a pro lab
Untitled by Redneck

This image was taken along the road between Kinglake and Glenburn in the Yarra Valley. These bush areas were devastated by the Black Saturday Fires. The bush along with the people who live in these areas have gotten on with life and are pushing ahead to keep on living. 50% of profit from this photo goes to the charities helping in the fire affected areas.
We will come back by Norman Repacholi

Almost eight months after Black Saturday bushfires ripped though Marysville leaving a trail of destruction, the town is slowly being rebuilt. While there was little new construction on this block, the Australian flag hanging on a tree that somehow made it through the fires is symbolic. We have survived. We will be back. This is our home. Marysville, 25th July 2009. Some of my pictures of Marysville New life emerges Portal to devastation We will come back
Little tiger by elizabethdonogh

Diuris sulphurea, one of Victoria’s native orchids, flowering in the Brisbane Ranges November 2009.
Diuris Sulphurea in the Brisbane Ranges by elizabethdonogh

It’s common name is nicer – Tiger Orchid. And it flowers in November in dry forests in South Eastern Australia.
Up the Creek by Andrew Murrell

During our visit to the Barrington region we stayed at the Barrington Retreat cabins. They are located just outside the Chiseter Dam. The creek runs past the Picnic viewing area and this little rapid with a small area of rainforest was there. The mossy rock and tree caught my eye and I wanted to catch a Pano of it showing the creek flowing past. This is a 2 image Pano shot with a Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm VR lens. A polariser and a 2 stop ND filter had the exposure time at 8 seconds at f16. The images were combined in CS3.
Forest Fire... by Jarrod Lees

left overs from 05/06 summer Fires….lying on my back looking up! these trees are huge!!!!!
burnt out road by Sanchos

this was taken on a quite road in maiden gully. / this is where the fires roared though on black Saturday in bendigo. sadly 64 houses where lost along with a fatality. this photo is to hopefully show others that the bush is in recovery now.
Regrowth in Red by jstephen

June 2009
Barrington Storm by Andrew Murrell

My wife and I recently spent a week in the Barrington tops region north of Newcastle. Not only is it beautiful country but it is close to home. Our first night there a storm was passing just to the south of us through Dungog. This was a lightning strike close to us and the flash illuminated the rain falling from the clouds. As the storm was far away I had the apeture open to f4 which is fine for distant lightning but terrible for a close flash. I have had to adjust in Camera Raw to get the details of the lightning stike as good as I can. not other adjustments have been done. Image taken with a Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm lens at f4 and 30sec exposure.
Wombat by wolfcat

Managed to find this fellow just outside the Lake Mountain Resort. Nikon D90 / Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500) / Aperture: f/6.3 / Focal Length: 200 mm
Lal Lal Iron Mine by Kristina K

For FailingMemory.. / Lal Lal is in the middle of the Gold fields, between Buninyong and Elaine, and my where i live.. / Victoria’s only attempt at mining and smelting iron ore took place at Lal Lal in the latter stages of the nineteenth century. In the mid 1870s, the Lal Lal Iron Company installed mining machinery, erected a large blast furnace and constructed a tramway to convey ore from the mine. For a brief time in the early 1880s, the Lal Lal Company had over 100 men engaged in mining and smelting the iron ore, gathering limestone (flux) and firewood, and manufacturing charcoal. The company also operated a foundry at Ballarat. The Lal Lal Iron Works had ceased operations by the end of the 1880s. The Lal Lal Iron Mine and Smelting Works is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria. The site is already listed on the Register of the National Estate. The Lal Lal Iron Mine and Smelting Works is historically and scientifically important as the site of the State’s only attempt to smelt iron ore with a blast furnace. The significance of the site is enhanced by the substantial remnants of the blast furnace being of its type surviving in the southern hemisphere. The Lal Lal Iron Mine and Smelting Works is scientifically important for its illustration of local adaptation of imported iron smelting technology. The design of the furnace, construction materials, and smelting technique used at the site harking back to 18th century European iron smelting technology. The site is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of mining. Year Construction Started 1870 / info from Link

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About This Group

Welcome to the Australian Bush Group!
This is a Group for you to show & tell about where you went bush (out of the Urban Jungle & into Rural Australia) and what you saw and did when you got there!

☼ Please keep an eye on the Australian Bush Heritage site! ☼

Bush – The Bush, a term used for rural, undeveloped land or country areas according to Wikipedia

Composition of artwork for this group should be predominantly landscape oriented (We are trying to portray pictures Of “The Bush” not that the bush just happened to be where you were!)
Only art from publicly accessible Rural areas – no Urban Development & European looking back yard garden shots please (Native Vegetated Reserve Parks or gardens within the urban areas are acceptable at the discretion of the moderator)
People and people created things can be considered “out bush”, but please remember Rule 1 when submitting artwork of this type – predominantly landscape orientated. Shots must have a predominant element of “landscape” to it!

Abstract landscapes will only be accepted if they contain a significant element of realist landscape. For pure abstract artwork please visit the Abstract Landscapes group

- Please remember Wikipedia’s definition – rural, undeveloped
(Including but not limited to: people, birds, insects, & animals; huts, lodges, cabins, & houses; campervans, caravans & tents; farm-buildings, industrial buildings & equipment; roads, tracks, pathways & railways; bridges & buildings; gates & fencing; personal vehicles, trucks, tractors & boats; etc – all can be rural things and as such can be in the shot but not the main body of the shot This is so we don’t get, for example, a photo of a tractor rusting away in a paddock somewhere when all it is really, is a picture of a tractor!)
In the description box there needs to be location information of where images were taken / made / writings were influenced by (In the case of writing – if not included within the piece, the area influencing the written piece described [and pictured if possible] in the description box)
With a desire to keep the focus on accurate impressions of the Natural Australian Bush, If not set in predominantly bush landscape settings, this group will not accept:
a) close ups on animals, birds & insects – please see the Australian Wildlife group
b) close ups on florals – please see Australian Native Plants
c) and please keep HDR and other computer generated effects to a bare minimum (Subsequent to the discretion of the moderator)

Please no Macro’s! – for these please see Macro Photography
Please no Back Yard shots – for this see Back Yard Photography or Back Yard Close Ups and Macro Shots Only groups

Journals are to be about the Australian Bush and your experiences within it and your experiences of this group (Other journal entries may be refused)

Please keep an eye on the Group News to be involved in the group action!
(Forum discussions do not necessarily have to be limited to bush and rainforest issues. These entries help us get to know the diversity of group members’ interests!)

Please limit your uploads to 2 images per day per person
(and be aware that we will [sadly!] remove incompatible work)

◘ AVATAR HONOURS ◘
☼ The Image currently representing the group is
‘Passion, WA Wildflowers’ by Malcolm Katon winner of the Spring Carnival; Avatar Picture race ☼Springtime!☼—October 09 ☼ BRAVO !! ☼

PREVIOUS AVATARS

‘The Colour of Snow’ by Geoff Coleman
Voted winner of the “Let the Waters Flow at the Melting of the Snow!” Challenge September 09

‘Wattle’ by Eve Parry
Voted winner of the “Wattle Bring in the Spring” Challenge – August 09
Inaugural winner of the group’s first monthly $20 Voucher prize – ☼ BRAVO! ☼