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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:22:17 GMT
(I'm reproducing my old blog. Bear with me. I haven't included all the replies, just the original posts.)Boo is starting to get quite a portfolio of photos, so I thought I'd start putting them together in one place. He's both a good and a bad model. He does look down the barrel of the camera, which is nice professional touch, but only for about 2 seconds before he jumps on the camera and starts talking to it. It's taken with a silly camera phone, and cropped in close, hence the fuzziness.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:25:14 GMT
That's me, with no head, in the background. He loves his fresh grass. He hasn't had any for days, as it's been raining too hard for me to go out foraging on his behalf.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:29:47 GMT
This is from his most recent photoshoot for the forum's fantastic new Budgie of the Month competition. I found it hard to choose between these two photos, but ending up picking the bottom one. Possibly a mistake. Boo loves his strawberries, especially nibbling on the little rough seeds on the outside skin.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:31:17 GMT
He really likes to talk to the camera. Especially my other half's fancy iphone. It's got a flat glass mirror finish and he's unstoppably attracted to it. As a result, I have a lot of photos that look like this.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:32:21 GMT
I also have a lot of photos like this, where he moves just out of shot, and out of focus, right as the shutter goes off. Little b*gger. He's very cute. And very annoying.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:34:25 GMT
This is him a few weeks after he flew into my house, lost, when he was a little baby. He must have been quite young when I found him. He's grown so big, and completely changed from pale, pale baby blue to now bright blue with his weird irridescent yellow head. He looks so sweet in this photo. All he wanted to do was sit on your head. I think the hair reminded him of his baby nest.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:35:51 GMT
We are not having much luck with our latest photo shoot for the forum's most excellent August "Wet Budgie of the Month Competition". My model is a little flighty. This is the best I've got so far! He keeps on flying off...little rat. He is wet though.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:36:48 GMT
till not having much luck. I have a non-compliant module on my hands. Face the front, you clown!
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:39:09 GMT
He was okay with his profile shots on my shoulder. Of course, by this stage he is no longer wet. Not bad though, as I had to operate the camera backwards. Even with the macro setting, it's really hard to get a crisp focus in close up. I wonder if it's me, or the limitations of the camera?
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:40:50 GMT
Originally Posted by mariannemarlow Boo is such a sweetheart He is that, Marianne. Here he is with my 84-year-old mum, Joan, who's staying with me for a couple of weeks. She tells me she had a budgie when she was a girl living in Southport, back in the 30s/early 40s. They used to feed it something called Groundsell? I think it's what we call Chickweed in Australia. Apparently it was difficult to keep any other pets during wartime, as meat was impossible to get, yet birdseed was plentiful. There you go.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:42:13 GMT
Recreating a little piece of the Australian outback to make a budgie feel at home. (Rubber duckie, made in China, excluded) The flower-like patterns in the Aboriginal dot painting behind him represent waterholes looped by animal tracks.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:43:50 GMT
After two weeks of unseasonably cold dark winter days in Sydney, the sun is shining bright. So out we go onto our sunny terrace to eat breakfast, catch some sunlight, and soak up some healthy Vitamin D amidst the treetops just beyond. He loves it, but lets me know when it's time to come inside for a fly by leaping, kamakaze-style, at the cage door. He looks likes he's at a Mexican fiesta in there at the moment. All he needs is a teeny Mexican sombrero sun hat.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:44:45 GMT
"I don't want to sound paranoid, but I swear I'm being stalked by a duck. Do you see him? He's at my six right now..."
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:45:40 GMT
So, we share some boiled egg for breakfast, and suddenly he goes all Linda Blair on me.
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Post by stace on Jan 3, 2012 7:47:30 GMT
It's later in the day and off we go to "Handsome Boy Modelling School" for the September flower-themed photo competition. Here are a couple of close-but-no-cigar shots that ended up on the cutting room floor. Speaking of cigars... And what a gorgeous shot ... of the back of his head.
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