No texture recipe today but I thought I'd share my news. I've finally found one of my Getty licensed photos in a use. My pear photo was used to illustrate a still life tutorial in the recently published The Complete Photographer by Tom Ang. Finding my photo in a...
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Water Meadows
Its a given isn't it, that if you take a trip without your camera, you'll see something so superbly photogenic that you'll bite yourself! Thus for me, (who's sick of biting himself!) I'll now do no laborious airport run without my camera. And here's an image to prove...
Ode to Spring
Tulips are such elegant flowers and in a way I'd love to be able to grow them en-masse like this, but massed bedding displays don't really suit my style of gardening as I garden by the "overflowing and abundance" cottage garden method. Thankfully the botanic gardens...
The Black Mill
How do you make a famous much photographed landmark look fresh? Simple - take a back shot! This huge black Beacon Mill in Rottingdean overlooks the English Channel, when it was built back in 1802, it defiantly faced France, the great Napoleonic foe! Here these black...
Emerge
I love spring! As well as being beautiful, trees covered with blossom are wonderful to photograph and texture. This is the flowering cherry at our country hut, it was just coming into flower when I took this -unfortunately I've missed seeing it in full bloom this...
Brighton West Pier in Sea Mist
Back in Brighton I took loads of photographs on my late afternoon visit, walking from one pier to the ruined West Pier. I remembered seeing it before I left England in the 1990's, It was being renovated into a huge restaurant come night club but had mysteriously...
Equilibrium
It was a grey damp day here yesterday so I decided to take some still-lifes indoors as the light was soft. I used my favourite 50mm lens at f1.8 which accounts for the fairly shallow depth of field. The backdrop is a piece of pale blue velvet that I rediscovered...
Belle Toute Lighthouse
On my recent visit to England I returned to an old haunt of mine, along the cliff edges of the Severn sisters. When I lived in London I'd often drive down to this place to get some fresh air and walk the dog. This 'Belle Toute' lighthouse was then on the top of the...
National Grid
This was taken when I visited the lovely hot pools resort village of Hanmer Springs NZ, last weekend. Just over the hill from town the countryside becomes much wilder and very picturesque with largely unspoiled tussock land and snowy mountains -that is apart from...
sunset through the pines
I've photographed this historic Roman ruin filled site many times, and I'm always captivated by its scenic treasures. Previously written about before in Pines in the Mist. Being a hill covered with these tall willowy umbrella pines, its often ravaged by the sudden...