During the midsummer, having just lost my Internet connection, I discovered I had much more time to get out there and take actual pictures! This was one very early pre-dawn rising, I drove towards the local beach and decided this wheat-field with it's ruined stone...
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French farmhouse
This is one of those lucky shots that came about from shooting a blood red poppy field. Its just the horizon, with the foregrounds over-bright poppy field removed. That cloud is as it was, where it was, and I just left it hanging pensively in the corner! From Summer...
Sweetheart
A recipe for this one was requested by Debbie over at flickr so I thought I'd do a quick blog entry for anyone else interested. The roses are Cecile Brunner commonly known as sweetheart roses, I love their tiny perfect buds and blooms. I took many photos of them...
Daisy
Paul is away on holiday in the UK at the moment and I'm sure he'll come back in a few days with some wonderful photos to texture so in the meantime you're going to get yet another recipe from me. I am slightly guilty of using the same textures over and over in my...
Misty morning
This image was done for a texturing challenge over on Flickr, the starting image was kindly provided by flickr member Adrigu . Misty landscapes are always great to texture so I jumped at the chance to do this and thought I'd share my recipe here. To start with I...
Pretty Bells
Sometimes when you're using textures things come together perfectly first try. This is what happened with this image. Only a few textures were used too, and if I take a similar photo I think I'll be trying this combo again, in fact I might try it on the daisy photo...
In Print!
No texture recipe today but I thought I'd share my news. I've finally found one of my Getty licensed photos in a use. My pear photo was used to illustrate a still life tutorial in the recently published The Complete Photographer by Tom Ang. Finding my photo in a...
Water Meadows
Its a given isn't it, that if you take a trip without your camera, you'll see something so superbly photogenic that you'll bite yourself! Thus for me, (who's sick of biting himself!) I'll now do no laborious airport run without my camera. And here's an image to prove...
Ode to Spring
Tulips are such elegant flowers and in a way I'd love to be able to grow them en-masse like this, but massed bedding displays don't really suit my style of gardening as I garden by the "overflowing and abundance" cottage garden method. Thankfully the botanic gardens...
The Black Mill
How do you make a famous much photographed landmark look fresh? Simple - take a back shot! This huge black Beacon Mill in Rottingdean overlooks the English Channel, when it was built back in 1802, it defiantly faced France, the great Napoleonic foe! Here these black...