This French farm stone mazet or finca was leaning in an alarming way, anybody who's seen the leaning tower of Pisa would instantly get the idea! So, I corrected it by slightly pinching the ground with the CS warp. These structures were lived in by poor Mediterranean...
France
musical hotel
Just around the corner from my house the famous composer- Camille Saint-Saëns stopped for several weeks, when it was a hotel, its the one with the open window. I'd been meaning to take a decent picture of this corner for ages, but over bright sunlight, dark shadows...
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...
Canal avenue
Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a 'keeper' being...
les visiteurs
Captured from the hip on my way up to the spectacular bell-view, previously photographed many times, next door to the cathedral, which can just be glimpsed at the top, behind the end house. I spent hours removing the electrical clutter, mostly from the right hand side...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
white barn II
Goodness, how time flies on the net! Last week we received an email asking for fuller recipes of our early images from way back, at the time of last summer's launch. It came as a surprise to me as I couldn't remember our early blogs being so minimal! Thus, to rectify...