{"id":346,"date":"2012-05-02T00:55:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-smitten"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:12:14","slug":"creative-nudge-smitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-smitten\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Smitten"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As an animal lover and photographer<\/a>, I've always been thrilled to capture images of wildlife, especially when I am traveling. I am still working my way through all of my photos from Australia, but today I wanted to share this image of the Blue-Winged Kookaburra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although I snapped this fellow at a Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>, it was still exciting to see one of these large terrestrial kingfishers up close. The sparkle of turquoise <\/a>on his wing with the contrasting yellow breast feathers, and the graphic black and white<\/a> stripes on his head, were only topped by the twinkle in his eye.<\/p>\n

My first day in Australia<\/a>, I was asked if I had heard the Kookaburra laugh<\/a> yet. Aha! That old song from gradeschool<\/a> echoed back in my deepest of memories, and then the tune was stuck in my head for the rest of the trip. ("Laugh Kookaburra…")<\/p>\n

To be honest, I've become a bit of a bird nut <\/a>since this trip! I've visited with a flock of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos<\/a> and had one land on my shoulder…I've seen a flock of pink and grey Galahs<\/a> hanging out on a golf course…got eye to eye with an emu<\/a>….had a warbling conversation with the handsome and charming magpies<\/a> (not the same as the magpies in the US) in front of our beachside cottage. I'm smitten.<\/p>\n

After I saw "The Big Year<\/a>" in a movie theater (the sweeping vistas needed to be seen on a really big screen!) I started thinking about photographing birds for my color and design inspiration<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I know that many of you are hardcore Bird Nuts…or I should say passionate Birders?<\/a>…because you snap up every bird design <\/a>we offer! With the huge trend of bird designs over the last year, we've had a lot of fun seeing the evolution of Bird Artwork in our industry!<\/p>\n

More inspirational images from Australia will be posted throughout this week on my photo page<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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