I don't think any photographer could have resisted this strangely shaped tree spotted growing on a river bank one evening. It's actually a tree being smothered by a vine or creeper of some description and although you can't really tell from the photo stands at least...
Jill Ferry
Pastels
More lavender, this time with the beautiful pink blooms of New Dawn rose in the background. New Dawn is a particularly vigorous rose which is smothered in soft pink flowers when it's in full bloom. This leant itself to soft processing so I tried out a new combo of...
My favourite things….
Just looking at this photo conjurers up the smell of lavender for me. I have a huge lavender bush growing beside the path up to our gate, another grown from a cutting I filched from somewhere. It's nice to be able to walk past it an rub your hands over it release the...
Fresh
Another day, another daisy:-) These little flowers grow like weeds here, in cracks in the path for example. I forgive them their weedy tendencies and especially love the way that each plant has flowers of several different colours. This was processed quickly and...
One!
This wonderful tree sits in the middle of farmland high in the South Otago hills. From the first time I saw it 3 or so years ago I loved it and now I try and stop each time we go past. My aim is to take a photo from the paddock itself (this was taken from the road)...
Hope
This is the tiny flower of Herb Robert or Geranium robertianum, it grows like a weed in my garden but thankfully it doesn't have much in the way of roots so is easy to pull out. When crushed it has a very pungent smell; the books say like foxes but never having...
Deer Farm
Farmed deer are a common site here in New Zealand, in the 80's when farmers were struggling many of them diversified and started farming deer. I love seeing them in their paddocks...the little white-tail deer are my favourites. I think these are probably red deer and...
The return..
Two years ago just a few hundred metres from this tree I slipped down a tiny grassy slope and broke my ankle. The place is now known as "The Broken Leg Place" and I always tread carefully when I'm there -the pain still being vivid in my mind! There are no houses there...
Road to the Sky
This was taken at the top of the Old Man Range, the mountain range that overlooks Alexandra and is over 6000 metres. There's a very steep road to the top, put in to service a TV transmitter. Going up there is like visiting a whole new world, it's remarkably flat on...
Light
This was taken one warm summer evening earlier this week when we were visiting family in Alexandra. There's a lovely track alongside the Manuherikea River and these daisies and some wild poppies were growing in the gravel on the river bank. I processed this by using...