You know that spring is well and truly here when the grape hyacinths or muscari are in flower. I photographed this bunch in my newly purchased "little white jug" bought especially (and cheaply too I must add) for photographic purposes, I was imagining a bunch of...
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green pineapple
This week I started a new Photoshelter account and was searching for images to stock it with, when I came across this abandoned oldie from February. Coming from a batch of pears I'd shot, it had been rejected because it was a little over-textured. But by simply...
Foxy
After a great week of 50% sun & rain in autumnal England I was glad to get back to the late summer heat and sun of the south of France! However, the new lush green landscapes were like a breath of fresh air after our arid grass-free summer environment. I was going...
Harmony
Back to one of favourite subjects, dried climbing hydrangea flowers; this one was taken last autumn in my basement "studio". The reality of my studio is quite different to how it appears in my photos but I don't think I'll go into that or it will ruin the mystique, I...
Sunday Stroll
I've got lots of photos like this with distant people walking on the beach, at one stage I'd have wanted an completely deserted beach but now I seek out opportunities like this. Luckily our beaches down here are often all but deserted, especially at this time of the...
Grunge Spring
This is the flower of the onion weed or Allium triquetrum -not one of my favourite plants as it spreads so readily and is very hard to get rid of once you have it. Apparently it can be used to replace spring onions in cooking so it does have its uses. It does have...
HDR Bottle
I came across this antique French Quinine bottle in the dunes, it had arrived on the high spring tides and made a nice change from the other modern plastic rubbish we get! Quinine was extensively used here in my area in the south of France as an everyday treatment for...
Wish you were here….
This was taken at a lovely little beach called Bobby's Head about half an hour north of Dunedin which is now a wildlife reserve, there's been much planting over the past 15 or so years to restore the area to its natural state after years of farming. The beach has...
Daisies
Some soft pastel prettiness to start the week. Flowers are in short supply here at the end of our New Zealand winter but spring can't be far away, I noticed a solitary crocus in flower in my garden the other day, which reminds me I must go and check to see if the...
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or...