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Whilst driving home from Carcassonne one blustery day last January,I came across this tree nursery, growing on the banks of a flooding river near our famous Olive Oil factory, the Coopérative Oléicole L'Oulibo, Bize-MinervoisThe setting sun lit up these trees like a...

Windswept

These trees are a feature of the coast in the beautiful Catlins area in the south of New Zealand. The wind comes off the sea and sculpts the trees to these wonderfully surreal shapes.I processed this fairly lightly with Soft Caramel soft light 67% , Bruised Saffron...

Harvest Tractor

One for the guys?Found in the corner of a field, this retro tractor seemed abandoned but probably wasn't. I was struck by its white hand painted bonnet. If you look closer at the 'before' image, you'll see I've removed a white twig from the bottom right, as it was...

Baby Blues

Another photo shoot with the forget-me-nots, flowers are so much easier to photograph than people :-)This was taken with my macro lens and cropped square.I processed it using Tarte Tatin at overlay 22 % and Pompeii Stucco at Screen 40% I used a layer mask to remove...

Last snow

For this misty winter farm-track scene I used;Apple blush @ Vivid light - Opacity 37% Fill 34%Grosgrain @ Hard Light - Opacity 27%, Fill 28%Caramel soft @ Opacity 86%, Fill 100%

Patong beach in Phuket

To spice up this Thai beach landscape I used just one Flypaper texture,Apple Crumble @ Full Blur filter mode and Overlay @ 82%.This resort was badly damaged by the tsunami several years ago.Many locals and visitors lost their lives. Patong in Phuket, pictured above...

Stormy Sea

Anyone who follows my photos will know I love walking on the beach and we're so lucky here to have so many readily accessible beaches nearby. This was taken on a stormy day back in May when there was a dramatic big surf and stormy sky. The original photo included the...

Rosa Antiquus (with recipe)

I rediscovered this one when I was hunting for something to process earlier, my archives are full of things I've forgotten about -mainly because I have such a hard time finding anything!Anyway...after much playing with different texture combinations and then tying to...

Grace

The bluebells in my garden are in full bloom at the moment, they may not live up to my dream of an English bluebell wood but they're lovely anyway. These were processed relatively quickly ( I say quickly because sometimes my processing can take hours and this one took...

l’ennui du dimanche

I spotted this wonderfully lit building whilst coming out of a Beziers art gallery one Sunday afternoon, the weather was a little washed out and everything looked bleached gray except this eighteenth century building painted a cool shade of ocher.Naturally, when I...