After a bit of an Epiphany the other day about my last blog posting, I decided to work on a cleaned up idealized version. Purists might blanch, (and probably shouldn't be here anyway!) but I've merged two images together and removed the cluttering couple! The council...
Paul Grand
sea walkers
We're lucky in this far western tip of the French Côte d'Azur area, with our crisp clear skies, making these wonderfully dramatic shadows. The downside is the very dry North Westerly windchill from the surrounding mountains. This wind is called the Tramontane -...
Life on the edge
Back on a misty autumnal day I visited this Roman excavation site, I've written about it before in Pines in the Mist This image is from the top of that hill overlooking the famous l'oppidum d'Enserune, a UNESCO protected medieval cartwheel farm system, here, totally...
winter wheat treescape
Another AutopanoPro merge of two portrait formatted landscapes. I've left the base showing where I had a missing bit to clone in. Shot as the sun was setting behind riverbank trees. The first copies of the shot were treated to give a Painterly effect.. Then treated...
the winter group
The other day on our freezing beach. Shot with my 75-300mm zoom lens, this scene was captured from a great distance of a neighboring beach. Because its from a distance the people look much closer together than they were! Not shown on my base image are a line of...
Soft dune days
One of those soft yet mild overcast days in August when the low sea clouds come in over the land from the Mediterranean. In France we call it the 'Marine' pronounced Maran it brings damp dark weather that can last for up to two weeks in winter! Luckily in summer it's...
Cypress hill
Seen from the motorway to the black mountains the other day. This large, handsome, lollipop or feather duster shaped Cypress tree - begged to have its portrait taken! After a quick detour, I shot it with two overlapping exposures, camera on its side in portrait mode,...
Homeward bound
A freezing walk on our local French beach with friends and their dogs over the weekend, produced this simple image. The glow of the cold mid-winter sun warmed by applying several flypaper textures and this time, no colour tweaks!I'm typing this whilst looking out over...
morning mist
I was emailed a few weeks ago, asking how to create a mist effectwith textures. My tardy answer is now shown here (sorry Bob!) This image was captured on the mountains last January.I'd not used these particular images because although I shot them in raw, It still had...
Moon tree ~ Bonne année !
From Jill and I we'd like to wish you all a gilded Bonne année!Its funny how the best shots are never planned!Yesterday, as it was sunny, I went for a drive in search of fresh images.Its continually maddening that all the best views are from our motorways and they are...