Shane Francescut is the guest host this week. His challenge, photograph a person, or a piece of fruit, or a toy — any stationary object — and experiment by photographing it from different angles. While there is no minimum — and you’re always welcome to adapt every photo challenge to meet your needs — I challenge you to choose three of your favourite shots and post them in a gallery on your blog.
So I’m going back in the garden for my WPC inspiration this week.
The staghorn fern loves tropical rainforest conditions and is a native of Tropical Northern Australia and many other tropical areas around the world. Platycerium is a genus of about 18 fern species in the polypod family. I also like how the fronds are shaped like deer antlers and grow at all angles from the kidney shaped shield.
Behind me I could hear a raucous racket going on in next door’s bottlebrush tree. Look what I saw.
I could only get the one shot before this Lorikeet flew away, but he is certainly at an angle to get a feed.
gypsy life 
Your Lorikeet is fabulous, Pauline. Such beauties- guess they are noisy so they can be found. Love your garden, as you know… feel privileged to have walked through it in person. 🙂
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It was a pleasure to meet you both it makes the blogging world more personal.
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Nice choices for the challenge. Ok, I admit I didn’t see the Lorikeet in the last photo straight away. Then I read your description, unfocused my eyes and then I got it. 🙂
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I find it quite amazing how such bright birds can be camouflaged in the bush.
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What a lucky shot of the Lorikeet. Hanging upside down like that – that is amazing but I’m sure it’s used to it. He must love the “food” in your backyard 😉 I hope he returns and you can take more photos of it. Beautiful green leaves too.
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The lorikeets are regular and very noisy visitors at the moment as I have lots of native flowers flowering…
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Good luck entertaining the lorikeets…I’m sure you don’t mind their presence 🙂
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I love them…
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The camouflage of the lorikeet is brilliant!
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You would think such brilliant colours would stand out, but you are right they do melt into the bush and can be quite hard to spot.
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I can’t get over the upside down lorikeet. You are so deserving of your good luck.
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That little fellow was having a great feed.
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I wouldn’t mind being disturbed by lorikeets once in a while! So many delights in your garden, its a real treat for a temperate trapped gypsy!
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The lorikeets are in 7th heaven now all the native shrubs are starting to flower.
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I just love seeing staghorns in the garden – it makes me feel at home 😀
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I imagine you have them every where up there.
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I love finding new ones when I go for dog walk 😉
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Most of mine grew from small shields I found. So easy…
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I’ve only seen staghorn ferns inside. It is real neat to see one in your garden. Thanks for sharing!
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You’re welcome, thank you for leaving a comment
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I love that last photo. I almost missed the bird, as it’s upside down. 🙂
janet
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They are real acrobats and lovely to watch
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Lovely photos, Pauline – thank you! That little bottle brush reminds me of trimming the ones my parents had along their front wall. 😘
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Pleased it brought some good memories back for you Del
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I love the angles of the stag horn fern and I love that upside-down Lorikeet! You have quite a garden there, Pauline!
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It’s my passion Cathy
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Last week I watched three species of hummingbirds and one bananaquit in a feeding frenzy over a bottlebrush tree.. it’s nice to see your final image to show that its a popular tree in your yard as well.
I always love your garden posts, so inviting and filled with love for our mother earth.
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The bottle brush shrubs are flowering extremely well this year and so are the grevilleas and the lorikeets love them
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The hummingbird buzzzzzzzzzzzz in the BB treetops captivated me so much that I considered building a little tower in order to observe them more easily!
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Love the angle of the lorikeet. I wonder if they get a rush to the head, eating upside-down like that?
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They are little acrobats aren’t they…
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You’re – my daughter would kill me if she saw me committing this mistake!
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Oops!!!! Slip of the finger Meg?
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I blame a badly programmed autocorrect function in the brain. The number of times my brain thinks of a word but my fingers type the wrong one is terrifying! I am forever transposing characters. And I KNOW when to use to and when to use too, so why do my fingers constantly type the wrong version?
What is worse is the misplaced apostrophe. I read one person’s outrage against the use of gateaux (already plural) with an added ‘s to indicate the plural on a café sign. Oops!
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And I can’t type without looking at the key board and I still hit the wrong keys…
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I do try to touch type to some extent, as I was very good and fast at word processing, but I do find myself using the backspace key more and more frequently!
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~~~~:(
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Oh. You think it was autocorrect in my brain. I was blaming autocorrect on the iPad! My part of the blame was poor editing.
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Your a clever opportunist seizing the moment to capture the lorikeet.
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They were making so much noise, as lorikeets do, that I couldn’t ignore them.
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