Paul Grand

to the sea

to the sea

  Firstly we'd like to say a big thank you to Ben Willmore for helping publicise our Flypaper textures on his very informative live podcast last Monday and Tuesday! I've managed to watch around half of the many hours so far, and I have to say after downloading...

Jousting Horses

Jousting Horses

  Back in the blog chair with a totally fresh image from this morning, I practically tripped over the annual Medieval Camel festival parade at the top of my lane here in the old ancient central area of French Beziers. I love these Mediterranean antique dressed...

end of the line

end of the line

  Today I wanted to show how I produced this textural feast of a picture using both texture panels of Russell Brown's new Pro-panel. Naturally I started off with first texture set 1 or if you have the Taster pack, they are the same textures but in a loose format....

Adobe Pro Panel

Adobe Pro Panel

  We're delighted to show you Russell Brown's new free Pro Texture Panel! Exclusively available to Adobe Cloud paid members only. As you can see from the screenshots texture thumbs its darker, grungier and moodier, even our green Flypaper sales button now has...

St Pauls

St Pauls

  One of my biggest regrets about having lived in London for almost 20 years is the fact that I never really did the whole tourist thing, never visited the Tower of London, Westminster Cathedral, Madame Tussauds, Buckingham Palace, Tate Modern, and finally St...

City Shadows

City Shadows

  Just back after returning from a week in London where I attended a Getty Images get-together and was very privileged to meet several genuine Flypaper fans who were also attending!  Gleaning a bit of face to face feedback was priceless, and I also shared a few...

Shell Collectors

Shell Collectors

  I love these low aspect shots as they can add drama to even the most mundane scene! Here's a shot from the winter on a semi-cloudy day, just moving towards a dog walking family and captured them several times with the camera almost touching the sand whilst...

Tilt Shift Village

Tilt Shift Village

  Having finally upgraded my 2008 Imac's system so that I could try the new Photoshop CS6 and use its new filters, I have to say all the expense and disruption was worth it! The image above was taken a couple of years ago in early spring with my old Sony Alpha 5,...

Montaday Tour aka The Saracens Tower

Montaday Tour aka The Saracens Tower

  On my way back to the car whilst shooting French sunflower fields, I came across this unusual angle of the 'Tour', which we normally dont see from the road beneath, I'd already had my Lensbaby Optic 80 on the camera, so this is what I used! In processing I...

Artichokes

  After creating and blogging the original image and recipe several weeks ago, we teamed up with the famous US Artist and print technique innovator, Bonny Pierce Lhotka to host a small taster pack of her highly original textures. To try out Bonny's Nature bits...