Just back after returning from a week in London where I attended a Getty Images get-together and was very privileged to meet several genuine Flypaper fans who were also attending! Gleaning a bit of face to face feedback was priceless, and I also shared a few ideas we are working on here, much to their approval ! This […]
Sep 24, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Aquarius, city, Cloning, Contra jour, contre-jour, England, Europe, Getty, light flares, London, Nik Color 4, Paul Grand, shadows, South Bank, street, Summer Painterly Pack, UK | 1 Comment »
I dont think I ate an artichoke until I was a student? After finishing a water-colour still-life of them, as it would have been a crime to throw them out. I’m not saying we lived on just potatoes and boiled cabbage, but up in Yorkshire such things were frowned upon and were seen as being […]
Apr 04, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Antique Edges, blackboard, Dutch Master, Fly Edges, France, French, Getty, lensbaby, lighting, Mediterranean, moody, painterly, Paul Grand, soft box, Spring Painterly Pack, Still Life, Tutorial, watercolour effect | 4 Comments »
Welcome to the Autumn seasons textured images! Here’s another from my misty morning set, our local ancient Roman bridge into our little old Beziers! Of our several crossings Its my favorite bridge, its both narrow and winding and takes just one lane of light traffic. Its also historic as its the bridge that the medieval […]
Dec 20, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Albigensian CrusadeKate Mosse, Autumn Painterly Pack, bridge, contre-jour, France, French, Getty, Labyrinth, landscape, mist, moody, morningQuelques Fleurs, painterly, Paul Grand, river, Spring Painterly Pack, stone | 2 Comments »
A big thanks to Ellen for her kind texture feature on dpreview and a warm welcome to their visiting fans! Once again its the time of year for my favorite misty, foggy mornings in the Mediterranean! As soon as I open my shutters and spy mist outside, I need to work fast, as the sun […]
Dec 06, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Adobe Camera Raw, Autumn Painterly Pack, Brushed Rose, canal, France, French, Getty, Languedoc, leaf peak, Mediterranean, mist, moody, Nik, painterly, Pantheon Stone, Paul Grand, photoshop, Russell Brown Adobe Texture Panel, Spring Painterly Pack, trees | 10 Comments »
Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here’s today’s, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will hopefully not be as muddled as this one with […]
Nov 29, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: action, Beziers, bookcover, city, drama, figures, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, lensbaby, medieval streets, Mediterranean, moody, movement, novel, Opal, Paul Grand, photoshop, published, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack, Swans Way, Tempest Sea, thriller, woman | 7 Comments »
Yet another Flypaper product to share, this time an indie pop CD/EP! Several months ago I was contacted by Thom, originally a New Zealander, and now a London based musician who wanted to use one or two of my images, naturally I was delighted to help, and sorted him out with this and another image, […]
Aug 22, 2011 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Aquarius, Brighton, Brushed Rose, CD, clouds, cover, DVD, England, evening, famous, France, French, Getty, Matmos Lake, metal, mist, moody, Paul Grand, published, Ruin, sand, Sea, seascape, skeleton, soft, south coast, Starlings, Summer Painterly Pack, UK, vacation, Victorian iron, west Pier | 4 Comments »
click for a bigger view No before after or recipe today but something exciting. Flickr has just launched a “licence with Getty” button where prospective buyers can click through if there’s a photo they want to license. They also revamped the Flickr/Getty launch page. One of the images they show is this one of mine, […]
Jun 18, 2010 | Categories: Blog, News | Tags: Flickr, Getty | 4 Comments »
I was emailed a few weeks ago, asking how to create a mist effectwith textures. My tardy answer is now shown here (sorry Bob!) This image was captured on the mountains last January.I’d not used these particular images because although I shot them in raw, It still had blown out areas.However, with our new textures […]
Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, bright, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, Leaden Hall, Mediterranean, mist, moody, morning, mountain, Necropolis, Paul Grand, pines, sun, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | 1 Comment »
From Jill and I we’d like to wish you all a gilded Bonne année!Its funny how the best shots are never planned!Yesterday, as it was sunny, I went for a drive in search of fresh images.Its continually maddening that all the best views are from our motorways and they are impossible to access without doing […]
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, Colosseum Sienna, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, lost void, Mediterranean, mid, moody, moon, Muscatel, Necropolis, painterly, Paul Grand, telephoto lens, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tree, trees, vacation, winter | 1 Comment »
Just like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and viewers and wish everybody from both of us – Happy Holidays!:-)Here’s an oldie but a Goldie, taken with a 75-300m zoom lens in the summer at a small lavender farm at Barjac in the Gard area of the south of France. Processed first […]
Dec 26, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Barjac, butterfly, flowers, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Gard, Getty, Languedoc, lavender farm, Mediterranean, Paul Grand, Phosphorescence, Photomatrix, photoshop, published, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation | Leave A Comment »
On Sunday afternoon just to curb the midwinter ‘Cabin fever’ we drove up towards the mountains. The light was clear and the air was crisp, but this time I diverted, hung a left and drove to ‘Lake Salagou’.Normally its a tourist nightmare, being the biggest and most famous lake in our area of the languedoc, […]
Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, boat, Chlorophyll, evening, fishermen, fishing, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, Green, lake, Lake Salagou, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, men, mountains, Muscatel, painterly, Paul Grand, Phosphorescence, Pompeii Stucco, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation | 1 Comment »
Our Southern French countryside is dotted with these ancient stone windmill ruins. There must be hundreds but I’ve seen only a couple that have been restored. The backdrop being our black mountains, which help to protect our Mediterranean coastal plains from the worst excesses of the northern European winter cold.The field contains freshly planted vines, […]
Dec 17, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Antique Liaisons, Caramel Cream, Chlorophyll, coastal, flowers, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, heady perfume, hilltop, Labyrinth, landscape, Languedoc, lost void, Mediterranean, moody, mountains, Ordinance Map, Paul Grand, photoshop, Raw Linen, ruined windmill, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation, viners, vineyard | 1 Comment »
A dull afternoon on the beach found me on my knees trying to get a low level shot. Overcast days are perfect to try moody, grainy textures.The idea behind this picture was ‘a Message in a bottle’, but from the bottles perspective!The Lime Plaster somehow helps give that ‘old distorted glass effect’ . Tex Pack […]
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, bleak, cold, concept, figure, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grainy, grunge, illustrative, landscape, Languedoc, lime plaster, man, Mediterranean, Message in a bottle, ming, old distorted glass effect, Paul Grand, pebbles, photoshop, surreal, Tex Box 2, vacation, view from a bottle, Voyageur map | 3 Comments »
We drove past this windmill many times on the way to the beach,situated on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean salt marshes.Thankfully we managed to stop a few times at sunset on route home to capture it on camera.I was lucky because it was cut down this year, it was really sad to see the top […]
Dec 07, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: big sky, coast road, derelict, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, hill top, illustrative, iron, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, old, old time, painterly, pastel, Paul Grand, post fence, salt marches, surreal, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, trees, umbrella pine, vacation, Vendres plage, vines, vineyard, wall, water pump, windmill, wire | 2 Comments »
Walking back from our local ‘Park of the Poets’ in Central Beziers,I came across this dark and narrow bow terrace.The lowering sun reflecting off the opposite houses stucco in an interesting way, lighting the upper apartment windows.You’ll see I’ve removed a mass of visual pollution from the skyline, aerials are the one thing I almost […]
Nov 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: angst, apartments, buildings, Caramel Cream, contained, crowding, curve, Dangerous Liaisons, enclosed, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, hour, lonely, Mediterranean, moody, Orient Express, Paul Grand, Pompeii Stucco, prison, Raw Linen, reflected light, sad, sky, solitude, surreal, trapped, vacation, vertigo, windows | 2 Comments »
We visited our “hut” in the country during the weekend, it’s situated beside a river in the midst of farmland so we had sheep over one fence, someone making hay in the paddock over the river and over the road there was a large herd of dairy cows. I processed this lady with Flypaper Textures […]
Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, cow, dairy cows, Dangerous Liaisons, farm, farmland, Flypaper Textures, Getty, Green, grunge, Jill Ferry, landscape, New Zealand, Nora Batty, paddock, painterly, rustic, sheep, vacation | 5 Comments »
Hot off the camera….Taken on a lovely walk on the beach this evening -there was some dramatic storm light and the sea looked amazing and even if my photos didn’t do the scene justice, it was great just to be there. This one looked okay before but I thought I’d see what I could do […]
Nov 14, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, clean, concept, cover, Dangerous Liaisons, desaturated, explore, foam, footprint, Getty, glowing, Green, Grosgrain, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, obscured, sand, Sea, sea shore, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation, waters edge, wave | 2 Comments »
Another human for our professional readers!Taken on a professional Portrait shoot with French Artist, Martine Roch a couple of years ago. This one was never used but I now like the little surreal looking figure with a bucket in the corner!It was shot in that cold, sharp April light, the shadows being so dark, it […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Artist, beach, blond, breakwater, Caramel soft, carrying, carrying on, concept, Contra jour, figure, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, Languedoc, leaving, lone, man with buck, Martine Roch, mature, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, painterly, parting, Paul Grand, pink, portrait, Raw Linen, reflected light, reflector, Sea, single, strong, surreal, surrealist, Tex Box 1, uplighter, vacation, woman | Leave A Comment »
Another misty ‘Canal du Midi’ shot, just west of Beziers,our famous local French Atlantic coast to the French Mediterranean sea connection. One of the main reasons for its being built was to avoid having to sail around Spain.Because just over two hundred years ago those pesky Spanish Pirates were quite a problem!This in turn brought […]
Nov 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Autopanopro, autumn, autumnal, barge drivers, bounty, Canal du Midi, Caramel soft, choices, concept, end, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, horses shade, joined up, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mellow fruitfulness, mist, moody, Napoleon's marching trees, painterly, path, pathway, Paul Grand, poplar trees, Raw Linen, roads, Routs, sailers, stagnant, travel, trees, vacation, wealth, wine | 4 Comments »
Nov 06, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, autumn, Beziers, boat, boats, calm, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, Languedoc, Mediterranean, no people, painterly, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, river bank, riverscape, sunset, Tex Box 1, tress, vacation | 1 Comment »
Quinces are such beautiful fruit, well not to eat raw, but cooked they’re delicious,quince conserve, quince paste….yum!As well as being nice to look at they have such a lovely fragrance -a bowl of quinces can scent a room. Another photo from last autumn, these quinces are from my tree and were turned into quince paste […]
Nov 02, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: basement, Dunedin, farmhouse, fruit, Getty, group, grunge, indoors, Jill Ferry, lonely, moody, natural light, Necropolis, New Zealand, Orient Express, quinces, rustic, Still Life, three | Leave A Comment »
I put my wonderful but neglected macro lens on this morning and went for a quick expedition round my garden. This Clematis montana is in full bloom, and the flowers were sparkling with droplets after overnight rain. I processed this one by duplicating the background layer and then blurring it using the lens blur filter, […]
Nov 01, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, Clematis montana, flower, Getty, grunge, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, soft, Still Life | 2 Comments »
Another from my misty day shoot!This time along our famous Beziers ‘Canal du Midi’, built by Paul Riquet The most famous son of our city of Beziers. It connects the French Atlantic West-coast with the French Mediterranean, a huge feat of civil engineering for its time. This barge appeared out of the dark mist, looming […]
Oct 31, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, built by Paul Riquet, France, French, Getty, Languedoc, looming and silent, Mediterranean, mist, moody, Paul Grand, published, Tutorial, vacation | 3 Comments »
A rare misty day in our part of the world.These mists are so far and few I have to dash out with my camera!This picture was taken on a strange atmospheric hill that sticks out of the old sea marshes, or ‘Etang’ in French.It now rises out of a sea of golden vineyards. On top […]
Oct 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, archeological digs, atmospheric hill, Bruised Saffron, digs, finds, Flypaper Textures, Getty, guarding, hillside, historic, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mist, misty day, moody, now silted up, old sea marshes, Oppidum sea port, Paul Grand, pine trees, Raw Linen, road to Narbonne, Roman Museum, Roman settlement, soft, strange, Tex Box 1, thousand years, UNESSCO, vacation, world heritage site, ‘Etang’ | Leave A Comment »
