I shot this English pastoral scene back in June, midsummer, but you’d never know it from the picture, having had such a long wet winter the sun had only just begun to warm to earth up on these Derbyshire moors. Its a favorite visiting haunt of mine because as kids we’d come for the […]
Oct 23, 2013 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Castleton, lambs, landscape, Paul Grand, peak district, sheep, Summer painterly, Summer Painterly Pack, UK | Comments Off on Winnats Pass Lambs
Yesterday afternoon we went for a quick drive out to Otago Peninsula and got some much needed exercise walking up the hill to the Highcliff War memorial, it was a short but steep climb but the views from the top are wonderful and it was worth the walk. This is one of the shots […]
Mar 25, 2013 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Autumn Painterly Pack, experimental, Jill Ferry, landscape, Matmos Lake, New Zealand, painterly, portrait format, Sisley, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack, Tempest Seas, vetiver, Vieux Gris | Comments Off on Peninsula
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 | Comments Off on Roman bridge into mist
This was taken one warm summer evening earlier this week when we were visiting family in Alexandra. There’s a lovely track alongside the Manuherikea River and these daisies and some wild poppies were growing in the gravel on the river bank. I processed this by using just two textures, one from Tex Box One and […]
Dec 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: airy, Colosseum Sienna, daisies, flowers, golden hour, Gosgrain, Jill Ferry, landscape, light, New Zealand, open, outdoors, river bank, summer, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on Light
At this time of the year when our evenings are long and it doesn’t get dark until around 10pm so we often go for a walk on the beach after dinner.We weren’t alone at the beach this night, as well as the few walkers, runners and dogs there was also a solitary sea-lion basking in […]
Dec 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, dog, Dunedin, dusk, evening, Flypaper Textures, golden hour, Jill Ferry, landscape, moody, Muscatel, New Zealand, painterly, Sea, soft, Tex Box 2, vacation, walkers, woman | Comments Off on Walking the dog
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 | Comments Off on fishing trip
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 | Comments Off on ruined windmill story
Another photo from a day trip to a wonderfully frosty Central Otago last winter -many of my photos that day were taken out the car window, a shooting technique I’m getting very practised at as my driver gets sick of me asking him to stop. Anyway in this photo I cropped off some of the […]
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: cold blue, Flypaper Textures, grunge, Holms, Jill Ferry, landscape, lost void, ming, mist, New Zealand, photoshop, tree, winter | Comments Off on Midwinter…
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 | Comments Off on m e s s e n g e r
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 | Comments Off on Wall Story
Another shot taken on a walk on the lovely Doctors Point Beach just to the north of Dunedin. These same people appear in a similar shot but I processed this one quite differently which shows how a different textures can give the same scene a whole new look. As well as some Flypaper Textures, I […]
Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Bruised Saffron, Doctors Point Beach, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, Jill Ferry, landscape, lens blur, New Zealand, photoshop, red, sand, Sea, selected focus, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tilt shift effect, vacation | Comments Off on Five
On the same day but taken just before the last ‘Reflected Light’ posting. This is inside our Beziers Park of the poets, decorated with many stone carved busts. Its made up of two pictures, merged in photoshop, as my Autopanopro was playing up!A more finished/textured version of this image is on my Flickr site. As […]
Nov 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Autopanopro, autumnal, bust, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, France, French, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, merged, moody, Necropolis, painterly, park of the poets, Paul Grand, photoshop, poet, Raw Linen, statue, surreal, Tex Box 1, trees, vacation | Comments Off on Bust and tree
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 | Comments Off on Flypaper Textures: Cow on the Hill
About a month ago I visited a local beach with my son, intending to take photos of him but when we looked over the sand dunes we were surprised to see this pair of NZ Sea Lions a short distance away. Naturally I rushed back to the car to exchange my short lens for a […]
Nov 20, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Caramel soft, Dunedin, Jill Ferry, landscape, New Zealand, Render lighting, sand, Sea, seals, soft, Tex Box 1, Tutorial, tutorials, vignette | Comments Off on The Happy Couple (adding a vignette using render lighting in Photoshop)
Sometimes the most interesting shots happen as accidents. I was playing with moving my camera during a longish exposure at the end of a beach walk and this was one of the resulting photos.My processing was simple, I used a blue toned (with a hue saturation adjustment) and slightly blurred Caramel Soft @ Overlay 100% […]
Nov 16, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: blue, blurred, Caramel soft, figure, Jill Ferry, landscape, late, lone, moody, New Zealand, night time, reflections, single, surfer, vacation, wet sand | Comments Off on Night Surf
Whilst on the way to the beach yesterday, with a slight sea mist over the vineyards.I came across this derelict farmhouse in a sea of golden vines.‘Chasse Gardee’ I’m told, means strictly licensed hunters only. Apple Blush – Soft Light Opacity @ 29%Raw Linen – Overlay Opacity @ 100%Necropolis – Overlay Opacity @ 39%Caramel Soft […]
Nov 15, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, clouds, derelict, distance, farm house, farmers field, Flypaper Textures, France, French, golden, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, moody, Necropolis, no hunting, no shooting sign, painterly, path, pathway, Paul Grand, poles, Raw Linen, Ruin, stakes, track, trees, vacation, vineyards, warning | Comments Off on ape
This was taken on our way to inland Otago in the middle of winter, at the time, the area was in the midst of a spell of hoar fross and there was freezing fog and a thick covering of ice on most things. It was very cold as you might imagine but so beautiful especially […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Apple Crumble, bleak, cold, distance, Flypaper Textures, freezing, frost, Jill Ferry, landscape, low cloud, mountains cape, New Zealand, Nora Batty, vacation, view | Comments Off on Feeding Out
This 10th century Franco Roman tower is just outside the medieval village of Puissalicon.Its just a short 10 min drive north from my coastally situated Beziers.known as a veritable masterpiece of Romanesque art in Languedoc.Its 4.3m wide and stands at 26m.It was built as a bell tower for the church of Saint Etienne de Peazan […]
Oct 27, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: 10th century, 10th century Gallo-Romano, apple blush, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, Franco Roman tower, Getty, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, medieval village, Mediterranean, Orient Express, Paul Grand, pines umbrella, polarizor, published, Puissalicon, Saint Etienne de Peazan priory, Tex Box 1, vacation, vineyards, wars of religion monument | Comments Off on La tour romane
This is in the south of France in my local languedoc area.There were many old windmills, but these are fast disappearing.This one overlooks my old village as seen from a farmers side road.I’d never seen it before the other evening! For this bucolic sunset scene I used three flypaper textures,two of them doubled.Bruised Saffron Soft […]
Oct 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, autumn, big sky, Bruised Saffron, clouds, decay, depression, desolate, distance, dramatic, farmland, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, left, lone, lonely, lost, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, Necropolis Soft, old, old times, outmoded, Paul Grand, postcard, published, red, rural, rust, surreal, Tex Box 1, undergrowth, vacation, vista, wind, windmill | Comments Off on Gilded
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-Minervois The setting sun lit up these trees like a stage-set!If you look closely you’ll see I’ve removed the tips of an […]
Oct 20, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Bize-Minervois, Dangerous Liaisons, flooding riverbed, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, Grosgrain, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, moody, Olive Oil factory, olive tree, painterly, Paul Grand, polarizer, stormy sky, surreal, the Coopérative Oléicole L’Oulibo, tree nursery, vacation | Comments Off on nights backcloth
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 multiply 17%and a touch of Raw Linen overlay […]
Oct 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Bruised Saffron, Caramel Soft, Catlins area, concept, dark, distorted, Getty, Green, grunge, hill top, Jill Ferry, landscape, lonely, New Zealand, Raw Linen, Sea, southern, Tex Box 1, trees, vacation, wind swept | Comments Off on Windswept
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%
Oct 14, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: alp maritime, apple blush, Caramel soft, change, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, Grosgrain, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, last snow, Mediterranean, melting, mist, moody, mountains, Paul Grand, season, snow, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Last snow
Here I used our ‘Necropolis’ texture very lightly.By simply running your mouse over the image you’ll see before and after the textures were applied!
Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: back, beach, big sky, blue, blue hat, canvas, concentration, concept, Contra jour, cross ties, desaturated, far away, figure, France, French, illustrative, lady, landscape, Languedoc, legs, letter, low angle, mist, News, pale, Paul Grand, reading, sand, sand dunes, shadow, skies, soft, summer, Tex Box 1, vacation, wistful, woman | Comments Off on The Letter
A golden dog on a golden beach, enhanced by our wonderful “Nora Batty” texture 🙂 See it on Flickr
Sep 09, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, dog, Flypaper Textures, Getty, grunge, Jill Ferry, landscape, New Zealand, Nora Batty, rich, sand, Sea, shaggy dog, sunny, vacation, vignette, yellow | Comments Off on Dog Day Afternoon
