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Flypaper Textures: Cow on the Hill

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

Feeding Out

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

Flying Lessons (or Gull ballet)

Another from a visit to the beach the other day!Quite a bit of work went into this one to get the “look” I wanted.First I duplicated the background and blurred it using a lens blur, and using a layer mask removed some of the blur from the central portion of the photo.The textures I used […]

Oct 25, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, birds, couple, feeding, Grande Tour, Green, Grosgrain, gulls, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, Nora Batty, play, reflections, sand, Sea, Shagreen bone, shaw, soft, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Flying Lessons (or Gull ballet)