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Butterflies

Last week when the sun finally came out after several days of rain I paid a visit to my favourite plant at the local botanic gardens, as I've mentioned before the plant has been pruned more heavily this year so I have to stretch to find any of these dried beauties to...

beach theater

Here for a change, I'm showing an image that has already been desaturated and then textured. Its also been treated to give a slight painterly effect and tower blocks have been removed from the horizon. Taken in the very early morning, with a telephoto, these early...

windowsill jug

This small, high situated window is at the side of my fireplace in my little old french corner house. I'm lucky having these side windows, as its a great source of fresh cross air in the hot summers. The view is a dud though, as it just points towards next doors green...

Pastel Blues

The teapot in this photo is my newest acquisition, bought from a local charity shop especially for photographic purposes -always a good excuse 🙂 I'd been taking photos of it by itself but then I spied my hydrangeas and voila! Processing for a change was relatively...

A new dawn !

I'm back after two weeks with only a sometime Iphone connection, and goodness, it was like the dark ages! Many thanks to Jill who has been a star!:-) One of the byproducts of being almost web free was more time, and I tried to be productive, a couple of days, even...

Basic Layer mask tutorial

Basic Layer mask tutorial

Another wet day here so I decided to do a very basic tutorial on masking in photoshop. Using a mask is how I remove unwanted texture from parts of an image, it’s a great way to do this as it’s fully reversible and adjustable.

Watching

Paul is having connection problems at the moment so  yet another photo from me here and one with a human subject for a change 🙂 This is the lovely Katiki beach adjacent to the  main highway north to Oamaru, it's a beautiful long golden beach and is one of the...

New Fly Edges Texture Pack!

Click for a bigger view ( Go HERE for more Fly Edge detail images ) Ever needed the original Alice in Wonderland photographic look? Did you yearn for a natural large plate format photographic feel? Have you ever wanted natural un-contrived edges that are not the...

Blue Monday

It's been wet here today with a lot more predicted so it seemed a perfect opportunity to take some photos of this fading hydrangea bloom. Unusually for me I've only used a couple of textures on this one so the processing is fairly simple. Ming @ overlay 55% Fly edge...

Pommes

Today I went to our city's huge 24 hour second hand book sale held in the theatre it raises funds for. There are thousands of books on sale with more put out all the time so it's a great way to stock the shelves. Book dealers are there in force and you can spot them a...