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The Red Centre Photography Workshop and Tour 2012 - Day 3

20/7/2012

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It's Wednesday and we have an early start at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre for an amazing morning of geckos, lizards, snakes and even a few frogs. The centre is owned by Rex Niendorf, one of the Centres colorful characters. Rex has helped out TV and movie productions with his critters and handling skills including  Sir David Attenborough. Rex brings his staff in early to give our Trekabout Photography Workshop group exclusive access to an amazing collection.

Justin is on hand to help out and is brilliant at keeping everyone occupied with a seemingly endless array of reptiles. The fact that Justin is a keen photographer himself helps with his understanding of what our participants are after.

One of the stars is always the Thorny Devil and of course he attracted a good following this time around too. Another of my favourites is the Central Netted Dragon. This little fellow is so cooperative! You just plonk him down in position and he'll just stay there posing away until you're finished.

Justin is able to provide 'glass free' access which made for some awesome photo opportunities. One of the highlights was the Death Adder and with Justin keeping it perfectly under control and at a safe distance our group were able to capture some amazing images.

Here are a few images from some of the participants.



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A very, very lazy Central Netted Dragon
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After lunch we had another afternoon at the Alice Springs Desert Park where the group had another opportunity to fine tune their 'birds in flight' skills. From what I have seen from that session we sure had some talented photographers along.

The birds in flight photography at the Nature Theartre is quite a challenge. As you'll see in the following photos, our group members were up to the task.
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The Alice Springs Desert Park has numerous aviaries, some of which are walk through. The bird photography opportunities are endless and again we were not disappointed.
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The Sand Country habitat was alive with wildflowers this year. The macro session was held throughout this area and although a little breezy there were still some terrific photo opportunities. The wildflowers were alive with bee activity. Of course whenever there are bees and macro lenses around, there is bound to be the 'odd' bee on flower shot. Great fun too, trying to grab that perfect image of the bee hovering just as it comes in to land.
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Tomorrow we head out to Kings Canyon. It's going to be a BIG day!!
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Pamela
19/7/2012 07:48:28 pm

Love these blogs Mark, what a great little trip down memory lane. Thanks for putting them up. Cheers Pamela

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Mark
15/8/2012 09:17:30 pm

Thanks Pamela :-)

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Di Hall
15/8/2012 08:59:38 pm

Your blog is fabulous Mark. The Red Centre workshop provided some great opportunities for fabulous images.looking forward to the next encounter with you guys.

Di Hall

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Mark
15/8/2012 09:18:18 pm

Thanks Di, won't be long now until Girraween swings around :-)

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