About a month ago I visited a local beach with my son, intending to take photos of him but when we looked over the sand dunes we were surprised to see this pair of NZ Sea Lions a short distance away. Naturally I rushed back to the car to exchange my short lens for a...
Jill Ferry
Night Surf
Sometimes the most interesting shots happen as accidents. I was playing with moving my camera during a longish exposure at the end of a beach walk and this was one of the resulting photos.My processing was simple, I used a blue toned (with a hue saturation adjustment)...
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...
Feeding Out
This was taken on our way to inland Otago in the middle of winter, at the time, the area was in the midst of a spell of hoar fross and there was freezing fog and a thick covering of ice on most things. It was very cold as you might imagine but so beautiful especially...
Daisies
Flowers are my easy option when it comes to photos, they stay still -well the ones inside do anyway, don't talk back and go well with textures and today I felt like an easy photo to process after several aborted attempts with other photos.I started off adding one...
Mistaken Identity
If you're thinking this is a tulip then think again -yes Paul, I'm thinking of you here :-)It is in fact the unopened flower of the clematis that's brightening a corner of my garden at the moment. Processed simply using Pompeii Stucco Soft Light 72%A colour fill layer...
Quince Trio
Quinces are such beautiful fruit, well not to eat raw, but cooked they're delicious,quince conserve, quince paste....yum!As well as being nice to look at they have such a lovely fragrance -a bowl of quinces can scent a room. Another photo from last autumn, these...
Clematis
I put my wonderful but neglected macro lens on this morning and went for a quick expedition round my garden. This Clematis montana is in full bloom, and the flowers were sparkling with droplets after overnight rain.I processed this one by duplicating the background...
Family Walk
Another day another beach! I took this last weekend when we went for a quick walk at Doctors Point near Dunedin. Since my family isn't cooperative when it comes to photos I have to make the most of any opportunities when it comes to getting some human interest in my...
Flying Lessons (or Gull ballet)
Another from a visit to the beach the other day!Quite a bit of work went into this one to get the "look" I wanted.First I duplicated the background and blurred it using a lens blur, and using a layer mask removed some of the blur from the central portion of the...