One of my projects over on flickr is to take a photo a day, and with the exception of a couple of missed days I think I've met the challenge. Some days it's a bit of a struggle to think of something to take a photo of, but it's amazing what you can find when...
We hope you're all enjoying the new August Painterly pack as much as we are? Feel free to post examples of your work on our Facebook page or in our Flickr Flypaper group, we love seeing what you're doing with our textures, or tell us what you think under the...
I love taking photos of fruit and it doesn't worry me if they're a bit past their prime, I think all the wrinkles and spots add to the interest. These scruffy little specimens came from a tree growing beside a road which probably undoubtedly started life as an...
Some more of my favourite climbing hydrangea which grows in our city's Botanic Gardens just down the road. I do have a plant in my own garden but it's only a baby and I'm waiting impatiently for it to grow....maybe next season I'll have butterflies in my...
It's midwinter here in New Zealand and to celebrate the winter solstice Dunedin holds a midwinter festival, the highlight of which is the lantern parade. This years one was held on Sunday night after being cancelled on Saturday due to rain, paper lanterns and...
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)...
It's always exciting to discover one of your photos used on a book cover so I was very happy to spy this Getty licensed Flypaper textured one being used so beautifully on the cover of this new book, Miss Fuller by April Bernard. The recipe has been published...
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...
My first book cover, or at least the first one I've managed to find. Although my image (the bird and branches) only makes up a small portion of the cover I'm thrilled! And yes I'll be buying the book and will even read it, might have to read the previous books in the...