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Grunge Spring
This is the flower of the onion weed or Allium triquetrum -not one of my favourite plants as it spreads so readily and is very hard to get rid of once you have it. Apparently it can be used to replace spring onions in cooking so it does have its uses. It does have...
HDR Bottle
I came across this antique French Quinine bottle in the dunes, it had arrived on the high spring tides and made a nice change from the other modern plastic rubbish we get! Quinine was extensively used here in my area in the south of France as an everyday treatment for...
Wish you were here….
This was taken at a lovely little beach called Bobby's Head about half an hour north of Dunedin which is now a wildlife reserve, there's been much planting over the past 15 or so years to restore the area to its natural state after years of farming. The beach has...
Daisies
Some soft pastel prettiness to start the week. Flowers are in short supply here at the end of our New Zealand winter but spring can't be far away, I noticed a solitary crocus in flower in my garden the other day, which reminds me I must go and check to see if the...
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or...
Passion
I bought these lovely wrinkly black New Zealand passionfruit today especially for photographic purposes, always a good excuse! Likewise the tamarillos, which must be amongst my favourite fruit. Unfortunately neither of these delicious fruit grow outdoors down here in...
Brave New Organic World !
What could be more quintessentially french-summer than a field of sunflowers? Though I have to discover a new field every year and because they are rotation crops they tend to crop up in some very odd places, and so they have to be tracked down. This field was found...
Fresh
These are the berries of the European Spindle or Euonymus europaeus more commonly called the Spindleberry, or at least that's what I've always called it. The name comes from the fact that its dense pale wood is easily worked and was once used for making spindles and...
In the corner of a French field
This French farm stone mazet or finca was leaning in an alarming way, anybody who's seen the leaning tower of Pisa would instantly get the idea! So, I corrected it by slightly pinching the ground with the CS warp. These structures were lived in by poor Mediterranean...
Summer Painterly Pack
Click the image for a full page view! Over the past year we have had several email requests asking for textures that brighten images and also textures give a more painterly look. To tell you the truth, we wanted them ourselves! With this in mind, we started working on...