Another from my "famous" basement with it's lovely winter window light which is naturally diffused through a very grimy window (no one is allowed to clean it!). The problem is the basement is unheated and in midwinter it's freezing down there so I don't visit...
I have been playing with textures from the Natural Bits Taster Pack, and for me at least, I've discovered that they work better on darker moody images, so I did some archive surfing and turned up this. It's a seed from the Shoo Fly plant (Nicandra physalodes)...
Yesterday afternoon I put the Lensbaby Edge 8o on the camera and went for a walk on a beach little to the south of the city, a cold front and rain was predicted so I went armed with a jacket only to find it surprisingly warm. The sky was dramatic though, you...
Today we have a sweet treat to follow the Paul's entrée of artichokes! I bought these little eggs especially for photographic purposes -as a popular advert here in New Zealand would say "Yeah Right!" I managed to resist temptation long enough to take photos of...
Paul always manages to write such interesting posts when he blogs, but with my flowers I struggle to think of anything to write, I'm just getting over a nasty bout of the flu at the moment which probably won't help my blog writing. I especially like blue hydrangeas...
Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here's today's, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will...
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...
This was taken when I visited the lovely hot pools resort village of Hanmer Springs NZ, last weekend. Just over the hill from town the countryside becomes much wilder and very picturesque with largely unspoiled tussock land and snowy mountains -that is apart from...
This is the flower of the onion weed or Allium triquetrum -not one of my favourite plants as it spreads so readily and is very hard to get rid of once you have it. Apparently it can be used to replace spring onions in cooking so it does have its uses. It does have...
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...