Taking my new camera lens for a day out

My new Nikon DSLR is great but lugging lenses and swapping them around is a pain in the butt. I ended up not even using the telephoto on our recent trip (although the weather was generally bad enough for that not to matter.) So when I saw the 16-300mm lens I’d been hoping to get before we head to Antarctica for Xmas, on sale, I snapped it up. And then I had to test it, didn’t I 🙂

These are all from Bribie Island.

Blackwinged stilts

Australian Raven

Australian Grebe

Tawny frogmouth

Bottle-nosed dolphins in Pumice Stone passage. There was a pod of at least six, with at least one calf that we could see. Taking photos of these damn things is impossible 🙂

 

Hibbertia scandens (‘Snake vine’)

Banksia dead flower heads and seed pods

Leptospermum

 

Glass House Mountains doing their imitation of China

 

And these were all from an exhibition at the local museum called Portraits of a Tea Cosy. The artist is Loani Prior.