Dangerous Liaisons

the scary bit

On rediscovering my Thailand vacation pictures from last year, I still find the odd thing to process. This was shot in Portrait format, on a fast speedboat launch in poor early morning light, thus unfortunately most shots from this batch suffer from a little camera...

reflected light

Walking back from our local 'Park of the Poets' in Central Beziers,I came across this dark and narrow bow terrace.The lowering sun reflecting off the opposite houses stucco in an interesting way, lighting the upper apartment windows.You'll see I've removed a mass of...

Flypaper Textures: Cow on the Hill

We visited our "hut" in the country during the weekend, it's situated beside a river in the midst of farmland so we had sheep over one fence, someone making hay in the paddock over the river and over the road there was a large herd of dairy cows.I processed this lady...

Leave only Footprints…

Hot off the camera....Taken on a lovely walk on the beach this evening -there was some dramatic storm light and the sea looked amazing and even if my photos didn't do the scene justice, it was great just to be there. This one looked okay before but I thought I'd see...

The castle…

This was taken after a lovely walk on my favourite beach. These two little girls were busily building a sandcastle when a wave came and washed away most of their hard work as often happens. Although this looks warm it was quite chilly but being kids they were...

nights backcloth

Whilst driving home from Carcassonne one blustery day last January,I came across this tree nursery, growing on the banks of a flooding river near our famous Olive Oil factory, the Coopérative Oléicole L'Oulibo, Bize-MinervoisThe setting sun lit up these trees like a...

Harvest Tractor

One for the guys?Found in the corner of a field, this retro tractor seemed abandoned but probably wasn't. I was struck by its white hand painted bonnet. If you look closer at the 'before' image, you'll see I've removed a white twig from the bottom right, as it was...

Beach Builders

This texture is a favorite, I've only used it once here,but we're planning on bringing more out asap!It was named 'Dangerous Liaisons' as it brings to mind a crumpled letter.See it on Flickr