We're lucky in this far western tip of the French Côte d'Azur area, with our crisp clear skies, making these wonderfully dramatic shadows. The downside is the very dry North Westerly windchill from the surrounding mountains. This wind is called the Tramontane -...
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Pastels
More lavender, this time with the beautiful pink blooms of New Dawn rose in the background. New Dawn is a particularly vigorous rose which is smothered in soft pink flowers when it's in full bloom. This leant itself to soft processing so I tried out a new combo of...
Life on the edge
Back on a misty autumnal day I visited this Roman excavation site, I've written about it before in Pines in the Mist This image is from the top of that hill overlooking the famous l'oppidum d'Enserune, a UNESCO protected medieval cartwheel farm system, here, totally...
My favourite things….
Just looking at this photo conjurers up the smell of lavender for me. I have a huge lavender bush growing beside the path up to our gate, another grown from a cutting I filched from somewhere. It's nice to be able to walk past it an rub your hands over it release the...
winter wheat treescape
Another AutopanoPro merge of two portrait formatted landscapes. I've left the base showing where I had a missing bit to clone in. Shot as the sun was setting behind riverbank trees. The first copies of the shot were treated to give a Painterly effect.. Then treated...
the winter group
The other day on our freezing beach. Shot with my 75-300mm zoom lens, this scene was captured from a great distance of a neighboring beach. Because its from a distance the people look much closer together than they were! Not shown on my base image are a line of...
Fresh
Another day, another daisy:-) These little flowers grow like weeds here, in cracks in the path for example. I forgive them their weedy tendencies and especially love the way that each plant has flowers of several different colours. This was processed quickly and...
Soft dune days
One of those soft yet mild overcast days in August when the low sea clouds come in over the land from the Mediterranean. In France we call it the 'Marine' pronounced Maran it brings damp dark weather that can last for up to two weeks in winter! Luckily in summer it's...
One!
This wonderful tree sits in the middle of farmland high in the South Otago hills. From the first time I saw it 3 or so years ago I loved it and now I try and stop each time we go past. My aim is to take a photo from the paddock itself (this was taken from the road)...
Cypress hill
Seen from the motorway to the black mountains the other day. This large, handsome, lollipop or feather duster shaped Cypress tree - begged to have its portrait taken! After a quick detour, I shot it with two overlapping exposures, camera on its side in portrait mode,...