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Caper White

Jason Benz — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 09:28:58 +0000

This is a caper white butterfly. They are currently undergoing a mass migration in Queensland, Australia which only happens every 6-10 years.

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Blues Brother

Jason Benz — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:41:45 +0000

This is original Blues Brother and band leader Blue Lou Marini on the Crossroads stage of Bluesfest 2016. If he looks familiar you may remember him washing dishes at Aretha Franklins cafe in the classic 1980 film The Blues Brothers. 36 years later they are still wearing sunglasses at night.

Today I applied for media accreditation at Bluesfest 2017 and hope to post daily images from the festival.

This image is available for download here.

Rose Tunnel

Jason Benz — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:49:59 +0000

This rose tunnel is on the Voyager Estate in Margaret River, Western Australia. There is a rose garden and red and white rose bushes at the end of every row of vines. There are a number of theories to why wine growers plant roses. They vary from purely aesthetic to practical bio-engineering. I suspect any floral diversity would be beneficial to the ecological environment.

Crested Cockatoo

Jason Benz — Tue, 17 May 2016 13:10:46 +0000

This is a Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo. They live for 20-40 years in the wild but can live for 100 years in captivity. This bird had the best of both worlds as it was on a road trip with its human family when we met them on our Broken Hill trip in 2014.

The head shot of the cockatoo has been accepted by Shutterstock for Stock Photography and is available for download here.

Peace Bell

Jason Benz — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:30:21 +0000

This is the World Peace Bell in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia. The Bell is made from coins provided by 103 countries and is a replica of the one that stands in the forecourt of the United Nations Headquarters. Events in France remind us of the need for greater understanding between people of the world. It is sad that someone could believe terror attacks on France would be a solution for anything.

To process this image Red and Blue layers were used in Photoshop to add colour. A lightened Black and White layer was used in the centre to finish the flag.

Pimped Classic

Jason Benz — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:10:21 +0000

Karen photographed this classic car in Cuba. If anybody knows the model please leave a comment. I used fractalius and photoshop to pimp it up.

Magpie Lark

Jason Benz — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:32:17 +0000

This is a male Magpie Lark. It’s DNA shows it is not a magpie or a lark but a monarch flycatcher. Like many Australian birds it was originally named using an English ornithologist’s vocabulary. Today its name depends on which state you are in. It is known as a Peewee in New South Wales and Queensland, a Mudlark in Victoria and Western Australia, and a Murray Magpie in South Australia.

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25th Bluesfest

Jason Benz — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:59:01 +0000

This is Grace Potter on the Mojo stage, who along with her band The Nocturnals, put on an awesome performance tonight at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in New South Wales, Australia. The festival is small enough that we managed to get to the front row for Grace Potter, Eric Bibb and Seth Lakeman today. We hope we are lucky enough to do the same for the headline act, Dave Matthews Band tomorrow.

Laughing Kookaburra

Jason Benz — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:56:03 +0000

The Kookaburra is one of the national symbols of Australia. It was used as a mascot for the Sydney 2000 Olympic games. They are also known as “Bushman’s Clock” or “Alarm Birds” due to it’s distinctive call, which sounds like laughing monkeys. There are four species of Kookaburra; Rufous-bellied, Spangled, Blue-winged and this Laughing Kookaburra. My camera recorded a subject distance of just 1.3 metres which qualifies it as one of Australia’s bold birds.

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Night Heron

Jason Benz — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:37:13 +0000

This bird is a Nankeen Night Heron. We saw it one morning at a campsite called Ban Ban Springs in Queensland, Australia. This image needed some work in Photoshop so I have shown the layers below. I added some blur and desaturation to the background and used a multiply layer on the heron to bring out some more detail.