In my little old French house I have a kind of a studio, where the walls are still rough as I've not yet decorated . It used to belong to a Dutch professor of colour therapy. He's still in France because I keep getting his speeding tickets! Anyhow, he said this top...
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Drive-By
Another drive-by shooting...I'm getting good at taking photos out the car window, thankfully I'm the passenger so I have plenty of opportunity. I won't be around for the next week or so but Paul will be here taking care of things. A lot of textures went into this...
Blueberries
I have one blueberry bush in my garden. It dates back to the days when I was studying horticulture by correspondence at one of our NZ universities. As part of our studies we had to attend a week long block course which for me meant travelling to the North Island. It...
The Chase
This is proof that it pays to keep your camera handy! I just managed to capture the lead figure before he was lost into shadow. The before image has already had the Painterly effect and a texture. I removed the green lens flare by painting the warm texture tones with...
Gently
More roses from my mothers garden, she has inherited lots of standard roses with trunks like small trees! I'm not a big fan of that style of rose bush myself but can see the advantages, you don't have to bend over to smell them and they're much easier to weed around,...
Beach lookout
Back at the beach lookout, the same beach as the red boat picture and on the same day. I'd have to describe this as a bone effect. Firstly, I processed as below then finished with a final colour tweak. This removed the warm tones left by the textures. Finally, I...
retro red boat
Back down from the mountains, on our local French Mediterranean beach the other day. I spied this washed up boat with sea foam in one of our local salt water lakes or 'etangs' in French, which are just behind our sand dunes. To achieve this easy retro look I first...
snow hedge
Another grungy snow scene from the plateau at the top of our local southern French mountains. Shot towards the sun in raw mode with the polarizer lens. Lost Void - Opacity - Overlay @ 100% Lost Void (flipped vertically) - Opacity - Overlay@ 100% Colosseum Sienna -...
Watching
It's been another warm day here so after dinner we went for a quick walk along a road (now closed to traffic) above St Kilda Beach, the light was dramatic with dark skies and occasional sunbeams breaking through the cloud layers . At the end of the road, is wonderful...
Valras from the sea
This is a view of my local resort of Valras. I don't go too often as its normally crowded with vacationers from up north, but winter offers off-season opportunities of sleepy dereliction! This image is taken from above the sea, on a rock Jetty. Its a kind of view...