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Apples
I love taking photos of fruit and it doesn't worry me if they're a bit past their prime, I think all the wrinkles and spots add to the interest. These scruffy little specimens came from a tree growing beside a road which probably undoubtedly started life as an...
Tilt Shift Village
Having finally upgraded my 2008 Imac's system so that I could try the new Photoshop CS6 and use its new filters, I have to say all the expense and disruption was worth it! The image above was taken a couple of years ago in early spring with my old Sony Alpha 5,...
Montaday Tour aka The Saracens Tower
On my way back to the car whilst shooting French sunflower fields, I came across this unusual angle of the 'Tour', which we normally dont see from the road beneath, I'd already had my Lensbaby Optic 80 on the camera, so this is what I used! In processing I...
Hydrangea
Some more of my favourite climbing hydrangea which grows in our city's Botanic Gardens just down the road. I do have a plant in my own garden but it's only a baby and I'm waiting impatiently for it to grow....maybe next season I'll have butterflies in my...
Artichokes
After creating and blogging the original image and recipe several weeks ago, we teamed up with the famous US Artist and print technique innovator, Bonny Pierce Lhotka to host a small taster pack of her highly original textures. To try out Bonny's Nature bits...
Dance
It's midwinter here in New Zealand and to celebrate the winter solstice Dunedin holds a midwinter festival, the highlight of which is the lantern parade. This years one was held on Sunday night after being cancelled on Saturday due to rain, paper lanterns and...
Windmills
Winchelsea is a secluded and hard to get to English channel resort, nestled between its more famous and trendy neighbours of Hastings and Dungeness, so its still delightfully unspoiled. I only came across it after visiting the more cultured hilltop town of Rye,...
Old Glass
Another from my "famous" basement with it's lovely winter window light which is naturally diffused through a very grimy window (no one is allowed to clean it!). The problem is the basement is unheated and in midwinter it's freezing down there so I don't visit...
Eyam Cows
I'm just back from a rewarding few weeks traveling and this is one of my captures from England's beautiful Derbyshire Dales. This part of the world was my old doorstep, as a student teen I even had driving lessons around these parts as my driving instructor...
Lace
I have been playing with textures from the Natural Bits Taster Pack, and for me at least, I've discovered that they work better on darker moody images, so I did some archive surfing and turned up this. It's a seed from the Shoo Fly plant (Nicandra physalodes)...