I was thrilled to find these still in flower in my garden a couple of weeks back, usually I'd have to wait till spring to see them but our winter here in Dunedin has been relatively mild so far, but as the old saying goes "as the days grow longer, the cold grows...
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Lemon preserve jars
Our supermarket had a stock of large, knobbly photogenic Lemons, which inspired me to use a few in a new still life. I have no fancy lighting, I just use daylight from a side window with the Mediterranean shutters most people have, mine are both internal and external....
Pretty pastels
This is another lensbaby photo, I love the extreme bokeh the lens produces as well as the unpredictability of the results, I also love how well lensbaby shots work with textures. Okay, the recipe and it was a fairly simple one, only one texture and one of the blending...
jug and fresh soap
One of my greatest little luxuries is a really hot deep bath! And then from that bath my favorite view would have to be of freshly scrubbed, bleached pine tops, scented with French hand made lavender soap. So I'm lucky, here in my little French house to have such a...
Cosmos
This comes hot off the press (or camera) so to speak. Taken a couple of hours ago with my lensbaby while I was out walking. Winter is fast approaching here in New Zealand so I have to make the most of the lovely day we're having and finding these in flower was an...
Women under Scaffolding
I'm no stalker, but when I see a great silhouette, and I'm armed with a camera, I will sometimes move just a few tiny paces to try to get a secret shot! Our narrow medieval streets are perfect for this type of shot, though for the same reason our streets are often too...
Girl with teddies
In England I bought a full size double hospital X-ray light box from Ebay, cost me next to nothing, but boy did I get burnt for the extra baggage on the flight home! So, I've been going through the old negatives, and came across this shoot with my niece, proudly...
Grunge Hydrangea
I reprocessed this image for Mary's article over at the Digital Photography School, to help illustrate how using different textures on the same image can completely change the feel of a photo, it's one of the things textures are so useful for. The earlier version is...
at the watermark
Firstly, Jill and I would like to say a big Hi to the fans of the DPS site! It was a pleasure to answer questions for Mary Andrade's feature on - 'Tips for Texturing Photographs' over on the DPS site. For all newcomers to to Flypaper, simply mouse-over the images for...
three girls running
Firstly, Jill and I would like to say a big Hi to the fans of the DPS site! It was a pleasure to answer questions for Mary Andrade's feature on - 'Tips for Texturing Photographs' over on the DPS site. For all newcomers to to Flypaper, simply mouse-over the images for...