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Beach lookout
Back at the beach lookout, the same beach as the red boat picture and on the same day. I'd have to describe this as a bone effect. Firstly, I processed as below then finished with a final colour tweak. This removed the warm tones left by the textures. Finally, I...
retro red boat
Back down from the mountains, on our local French Mediterranean beach the other day. I spied this washed up boat with sea foam in one of our local salt water lakes or 'etangs' in French, which are just behind our sand dunes. To achieve this easy retro look I first...
Barely There (desaturating a texture)
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snow hedge
Another grungy snow scene from the plateau at the top of our local southern French mountains. Shot towards the sun in raw mode with the polarizer lens. Lost Void - Opacity - Overlay @ 100% Lost Void (flipped vertically) - Opacity - Overlay@ 100% Colosseum Sienna -...
Watching
It's been another warm day here so after dinner we went for a quick walk along a road (now closed to traffic) above St Kilda Beach, the light was dramatic with dark skies and occasional sunbeams breaking through the cloud layers . At the end of the road, is wonderful...
Valras from the sea
This is a view of my local resort of Valras. I don't go too often as its normally crowded with vacationers from up north, but winter offers off-season opportunities of sleepy dereliction! This image is taken from above the sea, on a rock Jetty. Its a kind of view...
smooth skater
In the north of France, Martine and I visited an ice-skating rink. As there were some kind of championships taking place we took our camera's and spent a very cold hour or two, shooting hundreds of ambient lit photographs. I'd never been to such a show before and was...
the green one!
Fennel is considered a weed in many places but I don't mind it in my garden. I love it for it's wonderful towering flower stalks and seedheads, it's lovely soft ferny foliage, it's aniseed fragrance and flavour. At one time I'd have avoided the power-pole or cloned it...
Whisper
I never know what to write about my flower photos here, landscapes are much easier to write about 🙂 So today you'll just get the processing recipe. I decided on the soft treatment on these roses, I did have more textures to start with, archival canvas and apple...
edge of the pines
After waiting for snow for much of the winter, I finally gave in and drove up into our local mountains in search of the precious white powder! After a great day and many worth while captures, this was the final shot, with a polarizer filter in raw mode. Taken during...