Krazy Over Kale

As most of you should know Nibbles loves kale, so I decided to show all of you what he looks like while eating kale, aka a very happy bunny eating till his hearts content. I hope you enjoy as much as he enjoyed the kale!

links:
Instagram - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/
Youtube - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY
Emai - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com

What I Do To Take My Instagram Photos Of @Rabbitnibbles

First Step - Where the pictures are set

I first choose where I am going to take the photos at. I think about the lighting, the way the plants are, whether they are a bit untidy or there are to many leaves and sticks on the ground and if Nibbles will run away because he is not allowed to run free outside because it's not fully closed off so he won't run away, but I do let he go outside now and then with a harness on. Besides making sure Nibbles won't run away, the number one thing I think is the most important in taking photos is the lighting, as the lighting can either make or brake a photo because you don't want a dull and blurry looking photo, I look for an eye catching bright photo to catch peoples attention.

Second Step - Taking the photos
Once I have decided where I will take the photos I bring Nibbles outside, my favourite two places are on the bench

as this always has really nice moody lighting or on the red bricks with plants behind it

because I always get great focused shots of Nibbles with a blurry background (my favourite kind of picture).
I take around thirty to fifty photos each time I think it's a sunny day. I try low angled, close up, eagle eye view shots I try different kinds of photos whilst trying to make sure Nibbles wont run away, it's quite a balancing act when you have an adventurous bunny. I try and take the most natural shots as possible with natural lighting, naturally positioned bunny (I let him just play around, and always give him his favourite treat, kale afterwards).

Third Step - The choosing of photos
I take the SD card out of my camera (Sony DSC-WX500) which is a vlogging camera although I really want a DSLR they are a lot of money. I insert my SD card into my laptop and look through the photos and put them into my hard drive even if they aren't the best of photos. From there I choose
the photos which I think have the right angle, the right lighting and not to blurry, there may be only two or there may be twelve it really only depends on the day.

Fourth Step - Transferring the photos
From there I send the chosen photos via email to my ipad one by one as most of them are to big of files, and  downloading the photos before sending one photos takes around two minuets at a time even before sending them! So in other words I need to find a quicker way, but for now it works.

Fifth Step -  Cropping the photos
I take the photos from the emails I have sent to myself and one by one I position them on Instagram to get the right shape (Square) to fit Nibbles Instagram page, and to determine whether I should have Nibbles in the centre of the photo or to the side to give a nice effect. From there I make sure the wifi of my ipad is off so I don't post the picture to Nibbles instagram. I post it "offline" and it saves it to my camera role, the I delete the post so it won't post once I put the wifi back on.

Sixth Step - Adding the white background
I use Pic Collage to get the white background in Nibbles Instagram feed. I straighten the photo up and try to position it in the usual spot and try to have the same amount of white as my other photos, then I save it to my camera role and delete the original photos which were saved from the email and Instagram.

Seventh Step - editing unwanted text
As Pic Collage have a logo down the bottom of the page I remove the logo by using the app called Retouch as I want my photos to be of bunnies as it's a rabbits Instagram page. This app isn't really worth buying, as I once use it for that purpose only and the app was not for free.

Eight Step - Posting it
Out of the numerous photos which is prepared I want to post something around each day or two days apart on his Instagram so I prepare heaps of photos ready to post as I can't take photos each day because I get really busy during the weekdays and would like to keep refreshing his posts with new content every so often. As I have done heaps of preparation before posting I make them into a square on the photos app which comes with Ipads so I can just click on the photo and go straight through to the caption. The caption is where I like to try and write something to interact with the people who are following Nibbles so its a more open and friendly environment. I ask about the weather, where they're from, how long rabbit owners have had there rabbit for etc. I of course say where I am from (Australia), how long I've had my rabbit for (almost five years!) just so then people don't feel like they are the only ones replying to the question. I love engaging with his followers as they too most likely have a pet of there own.

So from this blog post you can see the steps I go through to post and Instagram as I love photography and Instagram is a great way of posting amazing artwork which I love seeing, I think everyone is an amazing artist in there own way. You probably have guessed it, my favourite subject in school was art, and surprisingly maths as well (weird combination, I know)  If you have read this far you are amazing and comment down below saying "I read it all!" and I'll know your an amazing person.
Thanks for reading!

links:
Instagram - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/
Youtube - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY
Emai - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com

Where I Buy Rabbit Toys/Training Gear

Hi everyone! This week I thought I would share to you guys where I get Nibbles's Toys from...
DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to brag or show you expensive toys I get Nibbles, I wanted to write a helpful blog post if you are trying to find good rabbit toys and don't know where to look.

Cheap as chips - http://www.cheapaschips.com
I get such great toys from here, I love to experiment to see what kind of toys Nibbles likes, so I have many cat toys and dog toys as well as mouse toys and bird toys which Nibbles loves. As there aren't many places in Australia which don't have a lot of rabbit toys I go for other animal toys which I think he will like and Cheap as Chips definitely have an amazing range of animal toys.

Pet stock - https://www.petstock.com.au/
This shop by far has the most rabbit toys in stock, as this is a pets store. pet stock has the best quality of toys and has an amazing variety of different toys, they sell edible toys, wood toys, training toys etc. my absolute favurite toy from there range is the wooden flexible bridge, because it can be used in so many ways, it can be a bridge for your rabbit to climb over or a tunnel for your rabbit to go under, or it can be just for your rabbit to sit on. Nibbles also has taken a liking to chew on it as it is great to grind rabbits teeth down.
https://www.petstock.com.au/products/S0000962/trixie_-_natwood_-_flex_wicker_bridge_-_for_small_animals

Here are the main places where I like to find toys for Nibbles, I hope this gave you an idea of where to get rabbit toys from, as I have shown you you can find rabbit toys in many different kinds of shops.

links:
Instagram - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/
Youtube - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY
Emai - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com

The Adventure Into The Garden

Is it just my bunny rabbit who adventures into the unknown to often, well my bunny certainly goes their often especially when he is not supposed to. And yesterday was one of those days...

It started off with someone not shutting the back door, so it was open for flies to come in and rabbits to go out. Five minuets after this event occurring my brother came in to let me know that Mr Nibbles has 'left the building'. Nibbles has gone into the garden many times before and I am well aware that he just wants to play, either by me chasing him through hard to reach places or just him digging in the dirt till his hearts content. So I let him be for around twenty-five to thirty minuets just to make sure that he had his fun in the sun.

After waiting a while I set off looking for the ratchet beast... Wait, this isn't a fictional story whops. Ok, lets start that again.
After waiting a while I got up from my laptop (I was writing my Thank-you For 2100 Followers blog post at the time) and went outside to look for my little munchkin. I searched in the front garden first just to make sure that he didn't go on the footpath or something (my worst nightmare, just kidding, but it kind of is) as he has done that before and somehow ended up in my neighbours backyard. But that was at night whilst I was asleep (That story may be a future blog post, if you want to know how he got out at night). Back to the story now,
I checked the front garden but no rabbit there, I even listened for rustling in the grass. Still nothing but the sound of crunching leaves underneath my feet. I decided that Nibbles was either inside, upstairs or in the backyard being mischievous.

I went back into the living room to find my mum sitting down watching TV, I asked her to see if Nibbles was upstairs whilst I looked for him outside. By the time I got down to the far end of my backyard I had found him (We don't have a huge backyard it's just like a jungle to get to the other side of it as it has crazy weeds because we are renovating which is taking a long time). I yelled to mum saying that I had found him but I don't think she heard me.

If you think that before this point in the story was hard just you read further along and find out the real challenge. I decided to try and catch him on my own, by trying to lure him towards me but it didn't work, he was like a fox running as fast as he could (or in this case hopping). I got quite frustrated as I kept having to go through a bush which casually whaked me in the face with its leaves, and the occasional thorn in the leg from our rose bushes, I wonder how Nibbles never seems to hurt himself. Every time he sees me getting closer to him he makes a run for it the opposite way.

I started to think about going into the garden where there is rose bushes everywhere, but I decided not to as I was wearing shorts (not the most ideal wilderness gear, I know) Nibbles raced to the right of me getting closer to the backdoor, but once I got close to him he ran back left. There came to a point of where he hopped so far left he reached the end of out garden (I can't access because these to much stuff there) He decided to go underneath it so I could not see him, so I had to rely on my hearing. I gave up, I couldn't reach him so I went to get help from my mum.

She got up off the coach and went outside armed with a broom ready for battle, just kidding we needed the broom to reach Nibbles and urge him to come out from the garden as we're to big to fit. My mum took charge and told me to go on one side and she'll go on the other side to try and catch him. I leaned forward into the rose bushes as I was centimetres away from his twitching nose yet I couldn't get him but what I did get was a thorn scraping my leg which started to bleed.
My mum gave up after thirty minuets while I was still determined to get him as it was getting dark. I some how managed to edge him closer to me with the broom in the right direction. I walked closer very slowly with no sudden movements then sprung on him reaching my hand to pick him up as quick as I could so he wouldn't try and make a run for it and have some more fun. Whilst pouncing on him I felt this sharp stinging pain underneath my shoulder, (I was wearing a thick jumper) I thought the stinging would stop within a couple of seconds... But no I felt the sharp pain all the way up to the house where I put Nibbles in his hutch.

Once I got inside I realised that I was bleeding underneath my shoulder, my thought was it must have been a throne but how did it get through my jumper. That my friends we will never know, I ended up having to put a bandaid on my shoulder as the bit where the thorn got me was stinging still because it was rubbing on my clothes, it was also because it was almost under my armpit so it was rubbing on my skin as well. So I ended up having to put a bandaid on it.
Ahh the wounds of a soldier... just kidding I survived, it wasn't that bad as you have guessed by now but it was an action packed hunt. Nibbles love to play at my expense.

I hope that gave you an insight into my CRAZY jam packed life of trying to catch peter (Nibbles) rabbit. Let me know if you would like to read more of his crazy adventures in the comments below! And let me know what you would like to read next. I hope you have a great day and smile!

links:
Instagram - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/
Youtube - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY
Emai - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com

Thank-you For 2100 Followers

Thank you for 2100 followers I can't believe that it has grown this much over something like 2 years, WHAT?! I thoroughly enjoy taking pictures and videos of Nibbles, even though most of them are for memories... I am so glad that so many people are really lovely online and are nice to talk to. I love interacting with different accounts who comment on my posts and I always am so heart-warmed at your responses. Here are some posts with your lovely comments:

I'd just like to thank you all for supporting me and nibbles, I truly love you all!
P.S once I hit 2.5k or 3k I may be doing a GIVEAWAY!!! So get ready for that, I love you all!

links:
Instagram - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/
Youtube - @rabbitnibbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY
Emai - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com

Favourite Photos of Rabbit Nibbles

I personally love to take photos, I just love being able to see something so photogenic and taking a picture of it as a memory of either where you have been or of something that you love. My favourite kind of photo to take is where there is an object, which in this case is Nibbles and the background is blurred. It is a bit hard to be able to achieve that style of photography without a DSLR, but I make it work with what I have now (which is a little vlogging camera). So here are some of my favourite pictures of Nibbles!

I hoped you liked my photos of Nibbles, Most of these photos are an incite into his bubbly personality. He is in a way so independent yet so loving and caring and energetic at times. Anything that you think would look amazing as a photo please let me know by contacting me at rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com I would be happy to photograph a person or an animal or an object (so basically anything haha).

Links:

Instagram - @rabbitnibbles

https://www.instagram.com/rabbitnibbles/

Youtube - @rabbitnibbles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAEVg2r9NY

Email - rabbitnibbles.owner@gmail.com