These very small and very scruffy apples came from a roadside tree, I'd picked them hoping they'd be sour as I had intended making a savoury chilli jelly, I discovered however that they're sweet with very tough skins....definitely not for eating but they made good...
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Canal avenue
Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a 'keeper' being...
A little late lunch
Hanmer springs is a lovely alpine village famed for its beautiful natural hot springs, it also has some great tracks to walk and cycle. I spotted this guy -a mule if I'm not mistaken, when we were out for a walk. He wasn't going to stop eating for anything, or come...
Jamie Heiden interview
Introducing Jamie Heiden a favorite illustrative texturiser!
“Jamie lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband and two children.
They have two horses, two goats, two dogs, three cats,
ten chickens and a corresponding amount of chores to be done”.
To coincide with her fabulous new book, we thought we’d do a short interview!
Iris
Last week, armed with a piece of black card, I took the dog a walk to our local Park of the poets to photograph iceland poppies, thankfully as the wind was low I managed several acceptable shots. See it on Flickr . Later, at the duck pond I took a few experimental...
Ghostly
I'm really enjoying the versatility of our new Fly Edge textures. I've used them as straight texture without the edges but here I decided that the grungy look would enhance this image. To start with, I roughly cloned some colour into the upper pale section of the...
Bounty
Almost every time I go to the beach I come home with a pocket full of small shells and stones and suchlike. Most of these ones came from a beach near the entrance to our harbour where there are lots of these tiny treasures underfoot. I processed these with textures...
Power Line
Another one of my "out the car window" shots where I've had to do a little "cleaning" of the pesky fence posts that appeared in the raw image -what would we do without photoshop 🙂 This was taken in the early evening light on our way home from visiting family in...
Good Friday shirt
I'd like to show how I did this surreal effect a little later, as I have a few more ideas to realize and don't want to spoil the magic just yet. However, with the addition of just one Flypaper texture and a little color desaturation, the image was pulled together,...
Into the Light
I love these climbing hydrangea flowers, although they're dead, they're still delicate and beautiful, they're even better a little later in the season when they look like lacy butterflies. Unfortunately I don't have plant of my own but take photos of the one that...