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consciousness life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 04 04 2026 all pictures open in a new tab if you click on it then click again for the bigger version in firefox earlier in the year i discovered a colony of rainbow bee eaters nesting on the bank of a tidal creek nearby eprapah creek it s an untidy and not very welcoming spot frequented by not too many fishers by day and party makers and drinkers by night i aim for somewhere in between them but it doesn t always work out that way gotta share the space sometimes and see some strange things but the point is there were all these rainbow bee eaters all of a sudden in spring to early summer and then just as suddenly they were gone they were only there to nest and raise their young and then took them off into the wider mangrove forest to learn the ways of being a rainbow bird they shared the space a while mark berkery click on those pictures for a closer look 8 comments geez posted in communication insects life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 21 03 2026 it s been a while since i put anything on here but not dead yet how many time i have said that now pennant dragonfly on a recent walk blowing in the wind on a hillside in the hot aussie sun a few keepers in spite of that knowing a few things persistence helps if you click on the pix they show bigger in a new tab if you re on firefox anyway love the angles love the elegance the strangeness and variety of form love the nature our nature an emperor dragonfly a more difficult subject wouldn t stay still or near for long at all seems from the staining on the nearside wings it s had a close call with other nature maybe a spider s web that it freed itself from i ve seen that happen a momentary collision and instinctive extraction candy coloured flowers considered an invasive species lantana there s lots of them in oz invasives no wonder with this one where it grows thick there s no way through it but lovely colours and the local nature adapts what s invasive anyway us as we are sure looks that way and everything serves something or it couldn t be including its management it s growth and destruction little green bug on the straw flower from sa i think just enjoying it s day on the pollen a new season of these flowers has just begun not long after the last one ended seeds from then we ll see how it goes with winter coming soon enough female orange tail resin bee just finishing off sealing her nest site on one of my old bee hotels i ve had the hotels over a decade now and they re still going strong they have their cycles of death and decay and plenty and everything takes it s place as the space becomes vacant and viable a male orange tail resin bee i think they waste no time looking for a mate straight out of the nest but there s a socialising goes on that not many notice since it is only apparent when observed over a long time span and dots are connected i m no academic to be keeping notes but these ones so could just be saying hello well maybe and within those cycles a nest site becomes unused by the bees for a while whatever was in there emerges or wastes away and a wasp moves in if the space is viable obviously a mud working wasp of some kind makes an entrance way out of mud to protect access to the interior a mud tunnel inventive nature security access and other part time residents of the bee hotels another kind of bee or wasp some of the visitors are so small the only way they could use the made for bees sites is when those sites have been used again and again until the entrance is small enough to enter and protect or defend for a tiny bee let s say which way was it now up or down such a choice of sites available at times i thought it was a gecko at first it was so small and my vision so poor turns out it s a water dragon maybe old enough for a first moult about four inches long then i saw the other adult water dragons about the place so i leave some fruit out for them and they are becoming less shy of me for a post on the adults at another location go here https beingmark com 2024 03 22 kates friendly fiend included for the clean background the way i like it when i can have it clean space well i am still surrounded by nature though i am having to go find it again the small living things not a bad thing got my body working again so i can walk longer distances to do so needs must but i am more aware the end is in sight i suppose anybody who lives long enough sees it coming as the signs amplify and propogate and plans for management of the inevitable decline of capacity those first few inches of getting up off the floor for instance but who wants to talk about it some do some don t and everybody has to live their own life can t be told won t be told and why would you except to do what you do as much as possible without the friction of reference to past or future imaginings and so we go on doing what we do not always knowing what is to be until the moment since not all planning survives the day being subject to greater forces and powers at work the forces of inertia and the powers of evolution or revolution if that is to be but the sun does shine the wind does blow the stars fill the dark night sky the nature does call the birds knock and sing at the back door for a feed who knows what comes next the bright morning s birth and decline or an end to endless change time will tell we ll see mark berkery click on those pictures for a closer look 22 comments rainbows over water posted in communication consciousness life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 25 10 2025 there s an out of the way fishing spot on a bend of a tidal creek not far from where i live often there is nobody there at the times i go it s nice to walk by the water and around the few short tracks in this small area the place is literally surrounded by mangrove forest at the edge of the bay moreton bay protected from the wilder ocean by a series of islands the main reason i ve been going there so much in recent weeks is the growing bird activity at this particular bend in the creek river and the fact they are very shy of people so it s necessary to introduce oneself to optimise the chance of a picture or two as luck would have it one or two have been sitting within range the last week or so range enough rainbow bee eaters i believe nesting in the creek bank wall on the sunny side the best direction to be shooting at the time of day to catch them in the light picking the best shots from ones blurred by dried grass since trimmed for future work blowing in the wind between lens and bird elegant little beauty sun is high from the shadow of the beak same perch from the other side slightly different time of day too a more distant perch out over the water a cleaner background but lower resolution but good enough and a lucky shot just as she was about to take to the wing at the limits of the gear sometimes i come across a couple of older guys carrying bags and i see them fetching a dingy from the undergrowth to get to a bigger boat anchored mid stream we wave that boat takes them to a almost hidden hut on a dry rise on the creek bank a few hundred meters away almost invisible to the eye nowadays a small dingy does the job for this day the tide goes up to the floor at the front location couldn t be more private they seem to do ok reminds me of the kids stories of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn except this may be home to one or both of them in these housing as an investment days it s somewhere to live undisturbed for a while until there s a cyclone or king tide but i haven t been there and there may be higher and dryer space behind them people live on the water around here it s warm enough year round as long as the weather and health allows living quarters don t come much tighter than a small yacht outside piled up not a lot of space inside as i remember it from long gone days a houseboat is a different prospect still on unstable and poorly serviced foundation but an option for some there s a rainbow of characters out there that we rarely see down by the water mark berkery click on those pictures for a closer look 14 comments not dead yet posted in communication consciousness life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 04 10 2025 just mia for a while or is that miinaction i do intend to get back to this blog when circumstances are more aligned we ll see how it goes anyway i post some stuff weekly or so on fb social media not sure why because i sure am not social but for now here garden safari pictures i remember now it was to promote my framed and unframed pictures for sale at weekend outdoor markets and online only ever sold a few online and after the first year nobody was buying at the markets and the cost of doing it was eating into a small pension so i m looking at how to do that differently a reboot sort of gotta be practical if it s that outdoor market selling was supposed to be adjunct to online selling but when i looked into that i was intuitively repulsed by the in house manipulation of marketing that was obviously not to my advantage in fact it was designed to fully occupy me and attach me to the platform by costly fees and promotions if i was to sell anything at all it also required a lot of non essential but time consuming considerations and activities l abyrinthine is a good word for it today i read an article that gives one good explanation why i was repulsed by some online selling platforms https www theguardian com technology 2025 oct 05 way past its prime how did amazon get so rubbish in a word enshitification and it s widespread worth reading if you care to ebay is still as simple as it ever was for me anyway though it has gotten more expensive on sale fees and is not really suited to my current product close up photo prints of our local nature i only have 3 listed there but any of what i have can be purchased if someone asks https www ebay com au usr macromeds there s another description of enshitification malice intent or just plain greed as a philosophy the calculated intent to rob us of the value of our lives to spend them in thrall to multiple minor excitations of the psyche in service to a self defeating process of identification with nothing of value it s nothing new but the intensification and with the turbo charging of the process with ai that s now well underway the net capture of ones value ones attention or intelligence will be comprehensive and pervasive that s progress the way a virus is a progression of events and in its way it serves the evolution of intelligence by eventually forcing a separation from what doesn t serve identification of intelligence with what passes and the dis identification with such is pain is change change is pain we ll see how the reboot goes anyway i might buff up my ebay presence and pare all else down to weekend outdoor markets but i really only want it to pay for itself properly not just the days expenses fuel and stall rent but the hidden incidentals too even if that doesn t include something for my time 8 12 hours a market day i have no hope or design though just an idea for now or it might just be an idea that has run its course we ll see nothing can be set in stone if a reboot is to have a chance likewise nothing can be left out regardless of orthodoxy something different is a possibility though the terrain may be fraught and the effort vain we ll see kookaburra in the back garden where i live pelican preening at the local jetty perched on a tall power pole duck regular visitors to the back door these days and the stone curlew it s chick season again keeping her eye on things mark berkery click on those pictures for a closer look 6 comments light posted in communication consciousness life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 28 06 2025 as far as the eye can see and beyond to inner space the light plays on the water tossed by the cold wind a lovely sunny winter s day by the sea moreton bay seen from victoria point at the northern boat ramps corella they roost in the tall gum trees by the ramps and travel in gangs waves of white swooping and shouting as they go a bold boisterous lot they are curious and fidgety too the flag pole ropes might need replacing soon a young blue faced green in their youth honey eater they are more present in the garden this winter noisy miner also a honey eater one greets me as i leave the kitchen with my breakfast struggles to hover for a couple seconds til its had a bite of my bread stranger visiting the usual magpies disappeared for a few days and another family came and went a female i believe from the shading in the white at the back of the neck a different character to the usual resident i went to the car and a masked lapwing went berserk they do that make a big noise to distract any present wildlife me from noticing their chicks not a very intelligent strategy i d say but it works well enough when the parents call out the chicks got to ground literally they freeze stock still and pretend there s no danger almost invisible it would be so easy to step on one could be just a couple leaves on the ground but once you see them kookaburra what can i say they come and they go there s no telling when but they are always welcome at the table of my back door this young butcherbird doesn t seem to want to grow up keeps coming back and crying out as if i m his mum and he wants a feed anyway the mum just ignores him as mums learn to do once the young are old enough to know better will have to take my cue from mum but it s cold now and there s not a lot to eat in the garden maybe when spring arrives mark berkery click on those pictures for a closer look 4 comments collected works posted in communication life love macro photography meditation nature photography relaxation spirituality sustainability truth by mark on 14 06 2025 not of mine i just take the pix in no particular order but the order they arrived in butcherbird so called for their practise of skewering or hanging meat prey up to cure or dry that hook on the point of the beak is for tearing up its prey flower of the tomato would still be growing and fruiting if i hadn t removed it in favour of the butterfly bush it shares a pot with recovering through the winter sunshine ant farming a field of mushrooms or just wandering in time colourful fly inspecting his field of fungus there s forms of life everywhere engaging with other forms of life spider don t recall its name casting a loose web under a cloudy sky not an easy mouthful for a hungry bird with those thorns and red would be a warning too eat me at your peril looking good 0ne of my friendly kookaburras another one an...
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