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 »
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 | Comments Off on Quince Trio
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 | 5 Comments »
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
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 was also the location for the opening scenes from’The Beach’ […]
Oct 13, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: angle, Apple Crumble, clouds, DaffyLeonardo DiCaprio, empty, evening, exotic, foot prints, Getty, golden hour, green sea, hotel, location, lonely, low aspect, moody, movie, palm frond, palm trees, patong, Paul Grand, Phuket, rocks, sand, Sea, seascape, Tex Box 1, Thai, Thailand, The Beach, tropical, tropics, tsunami, vacation, warm sea, wide angle | Comments Off on Patong beach in Phuket
For this misty mountain top landscape, I used just two flypaper textures, Raw Linen @ Linear burn setting 46% and opacity at 63% although I liked it, I didn’t need the texture, so I blurred it with Gaussian blur for a smooth finish. Necropolis was used in Overlay @ 55%, Opacity 56% So we come […]
Sep 26, 2009 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: colour balance, colour change, desolate, fog, France, freezing, French, Getty, gloomy, grunge, high altitude, Languedoc, lone, lonely, maritime alps, Mediterranean, melancholy, mist, mountains, Necropolis, Paul Grand, simple, sliders, snow, Tex Box 1, tree, Tutorial, vacation, winter | 6 Comments »
