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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)...
Stormy Sea now a book cover
It's always exciting to discover one of your photos used on a book cover so I was very happy to spy this Getty licensed Flypaper textured one being used so beautifully on the cover of this new book, Miss Fuller by April Bernard. The recipe has been published...
Tea cups video tutorial
By popular request we publish the full written recipe as seen in Martine Roch's YouTube video we taped on sunday. Martine had been preparing a video Art lecture about her surrealist imagery to take to Mexico in June, and already had a bit of practice. So I...
NaturalBits Taster Pack
Here at flypaper central we love experimental imagery, so we were doubly pleased to meet up with Bonny Pierce Lhotka, the famous west coast Digital Alchemy book writer and experimental art printer innovator and inventor! Bonny has many fabulous large plate...