I'm just back from a short holiday at Kaikoura, a lovely coastal town several hundred kilometres north of here. Kaikoura is famed for its whale watching but there's much more to do...wildlife, fishing seals, wild beaches, walks etc etc.... My holiday coincided with...
beach
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...
The Art Critic
Another image taken during the recent spring high tides. The model is standing on the shoreline with a sand pool in front. These strange wigwam structures are built from driftwood, we have no idea who makes them or for what purpose, however any structures add...
À la recherche du temps perdu
Welcome to the first Flypaper Spring texture recipe! We're really pleased to be able to use the freshly named textures, as before naming we used various numbers and joked that they only really come to life once they are named! During the extraordinary high spring...
Mirage
I never tire of the beach! I visit this city beach on a regular basis and it's different every time I go. On this occasion the sea fog combined with a very low tide provided wonderful shooting conditions, if the sun had peeked through the clouds that would have been...
Sunday Stroll
I've got lots of photos like this with distant people walking on the beach, at one stage I'd have wanted an completely deserted beach but now I seek out opportunities like this. Luckily our beaches down here are often all but deserted, especially at this time of the...
Wish you were here….
This was taken at a lovely little beach called Bobby's Head about half an hour north of Dunedin which is now a wildlife reserve, there's been much planting over the past 15 or so years to restore the area to its natural state after years of farming. The beach has...
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or...
beach theater
Here for a change, I'm showing an image that has already been desaturated and then textured. Its also been treated to give a slight painterly effect and tower blocks have been removed from the horizon. Taken in the very early morning, with a telephoto, these early...
Watching
Paul is having connection problems at the moment so yet another photo from me here and one with a human subject for a change 🙂 This is the lovely Katiki beach adjacent to the main highway north to Oamaru, it's a beautiful long golden beach and is one of the...