I bought these lovely wrinkly black New Zealand passionfruit today especially for photographic purposes, always a good excuse! Likewise the tamarillos, which must be amongst my favourite fruit. Unfortunately neither of these delicious fruit grow outdoors down here in...
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Brave New Organic World !
What could be more quintessentially french-summer than a field of sunflowers? Though I have to discover a new field every year and because they are rotation crops they tend to crop up in some very odd places, and so they have to be tracked down. This field was found...
Fresh
These are the berries of the European Spindle or Euonymus europaeus more commonly called the Spindleberry, or at least that's what I've always called it. The name comes from the fact that its dense pale wood is easily worked and was once used for making spindles and...
In the corner of a French field
This French farm stone mazet or finca was leaning in an alarming way, anybody who's seen the leaning tower of Pisa would instantly get the idea! So, I corrected it by slightly pinching the ground with the CS warp. These structures were lived in by poor Mediterranean...
Snow Road
I have just returned from a wonderful long weekend at Lake Tekapo which is nestled at the base of New Zealand's Southern Alps. While the weather wasn't perfect, the magnificent snowy mountains were hidden from view by low cloud most of the time. Fortunately, I did...
Venice waterways
This shot, taken on the beautiful Venice waterways with a cheap Konica Minolta digital camera a few years ago without the aid of a much needed polarizer filter in the early summer sun was left unused until now, when I had the idea of extending the sky area and...
Symphony
In winter when there aren't many flowers around you really appreciate anything that even looks like a flower, I spied these at the local botanic garden overhanging a path and couldn't resist a photo. I have a previous photo of these on Flickr but decided to give this...
musical hotel
Just around the corner from my house the famous composer- Camille Saint-Saëns stopped for several weeks, when it was a hotel, its the one with the open window. I'd been meaning to take a decent picture of this corner for ages, but over bright sunlight, dark shadows...
The Jetty
Welcome to the new Summer Season of Painterly Flypaper! Before we had only been able to hint at new textures used, and frankly this was very frustrating, having new textures but not being able to give the game away about the new painterly theme! So, for this first...
Grunge Bluebell
It's midwinter here in New Zealand so this one is from last spring -I'm counting the days (or maybe months) till they're in flower again, in fact I'm looking forward to having any flowers in the garden. There are some weeds still flowering (must be why weeds are so...