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Spectacular birds - fabulous light! This was one of the highlights of our Flinders Ranges adventure.  These sunset galahs were one of the best experiences for me, and taught me some valuable lessons.. Having enjoyed the Granite and Woodlands Discovery Trail between Hyden and Norseman, then the Nullarbor, we turned left just after Port Augusta and finally headed to the Flinders Ranges. My most breathtaking Flinders experience was something very simple: we were wondering near the cabins at Rawnsley Park Station just on sunset. Pink and grey galahs were everywhere - nothing too unusual about that...I had my camera poised, then whoosh! They took off en masse, and I kept shooting as they wheeled around and left us. In a blip, the experience was over. Even so, this was one of my most exhilarating bird photography experiences to date - catching them in that rapid fire shooting was great but as I started processing the photos, I kept gasping, and trying to figure out what all the navy blue patches were...curiously, the birds had cast shadows on each other, and this gave the photos an abstract and compelling look, in my view. Added the that, that sunset light was magnificent... here's the opening sequence. Use the onscreen controls to navigate or pause the photos. Of course, the light was changing rapidly, as was the flock's direction: soon I had a very different view, and I kept shooting. Here's how the photos unfolded as the flock wheeled ninety degrees past me. But wait, there's more. The show wasn't over yet. The flock settled, and in less light, reassembled itself on the ground.mOnce again, these final pictures, for me, have an abstract quality that I rather like. That was one of the many valuable things I learnt from this experience - here's what else I learnt... (PHOTOGRAPHY) LESSONS LEARNT |