Vanessa Waterhouse

Nature photographer in the Great Southern, Western Australia. Lover of macro flora and creative and vintage lenses

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dark web

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Winter textures - banksia grandis

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autumn leaves

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double rainbow 🌈

(C) @branchflowerphoto 2023

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These foggy mornings make me happy.

View from my window.

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pink flowers | pink dawn | raindrops

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Like flames

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moyadong {female western rosella}

there is a pandemonium of parrots on the farm right now

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And even more of them this year! My favourites 😍

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Nature's form

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A budding Showy Dryandra AKA Banksia Formosa with a gorgeous, glowing bud that is larger than a golf ball. All these plants and flowers I'm posting are growing wild on the 380 acre property where I live, which is mostly Australian native forest. I'm extra excited as spring approaches as this is my first flowering season after moving here last November 📷🌸💗

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Posting a bit from the archive. The Showy Dryandra will flower again next month!

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I found this pretty growing wild on the farm late last spring.

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Little pink fairy orchids were popping up all over the farm last spring 🌸

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Nature's palace

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Banksia grandis leaf study

Western Australian native flora

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Spring wildflowers in infrared

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Better late than never...I don't enter competitions often, but late last year I entered a few of my photos in a Christmas cover competition for Aurora magazine which is a local arts, culture and lifestyle mag. I lost to a beautiful floral linocut but all five of my photos made runner up! 🌸🩷

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Living trees are great and all but old dead trees covered in lichen and moss are where it's at. This forest I call home.