Blog

Another Flypaper publication!

Another Flypaper publication!

Before I start blogging again I thought I'd share this new French book cover publication of mine! Its interesting to show here because the texture I used was one of the first prototype Flypaper Textures! Its now included in the very first Texture pack and is called...

Sweetheart

A recipe for this one was requested by Debbie over at flickr so I thought I'd do a quick blog entry for anyone else interested. The roses are Cecile Brunner commonly known as sweetheart roses, I love their tiny perfect buds and blooms. I took many photos of them...

Daisy

Paul is away on holiday in the UK at the moment and I'm sure he'll  come back  in a few days with some wonderful photos to texture  so in the meantime you're going to get yet another recipe from me. I am slightly guilty of using the same textures over and over in my...

Misty morning

This image was done for a texturing challenge over on Flickr, the starting image was kindly  provided by flickr member  Adrigu . Misty landscapes are always great to texture so I jumped at the chance to do this and thought I'd share my recipe here. To start with I...

Pretty Bells

Sometimes when you're using textures things come together perfectly first try. This is what happened with this image. Only a few textures were used too, and if I take a similar photo I think I'll be trying this combo again, in fact I might try it on the daisy photo...

In Print!

No texture recipe today but I thought I'd share my news. I've finally found one of my Getty licensed photos in a use. My pear  photo was used to illustrate a still life tutorial in the recently published  The Complete Photographer  by Tom Ang. Finding my photo in a...

Water Meadows

Its a given isn't it, that if you take a trip without your camera, you'll see something so superbly photogenic that you'll bite yourself! Thus for me, (who's sick of biting himself!) I'll now do no laborious airport run without my camera. And here's an image to prove...

Ode to Spring

Tulips are such elegant flowers and in a way I'd love to be able to grow them en-masse like this, but massed bedding displays don't really suit my style of gardening as I garden by the "overflowing and abundance" cottage garden method. Thankfully the botanic gardens...

The Black Mill

How do you make a famous much photographed landmark look fresh? Simple - take a back shot! This huge black Beacon Mill in Rottingdean overlooks the English Channel, when it was built back in 1802, it defiantly faced France, the great Napoleonic foe! Here these black...

Emerge

I love spring! As well as being beautiful, trees covered with blossom are wonderful to photograph and texture. This is the flowering cherry at our country hut, it was just coming into flower when I took this -unfortunately I've missed seeing it in full bloom this...