One of my greatest little luxuries is a really hot deep bath! And then from that bath my favorite view would have to be of freshly scrubbed, bleached pine tops, scented with French hand made lavender soap. So I'm lucky, here in my little French house to have such a...
Still Life
Harmony
Back to one of favourite subjects, dried climbing hydrangea flowers; this one was taken last autumn in my basement "studio". The reality of my studio is quite different to how it appears in my photos but I don't think I'll go into that or it will ruin the mystique, I...
windowsill jug
This small, high situated window is at the side of my fireplace in my little old french corner house. I'm lucky having these side windows, as its a great source of fresh cross air in the hot summers. The view is a dud though, as it just points towards next doors green...
Plums on white
A slightly different starting photo and slightly different processing. I'm enjoying playing with photos in this soft desaturated style and have discovered after many failures that choice of subject and background are very important and likewise light, soft indirect...
Plums
We have a self sown plum tree in our garden it produces fairly tangy, yellow fleshed plums with dark purple skins, in fact they look a bit like the Grand Duke plums that grew in the orchard on the farm where I grew up. Unfortunately our tree doesn't crop very well so...
hydrangea resting on a stool
Continuing in a pale Dutch mood, this image was post processed in almost the same simple way as the last pears image, but omitting the muscatel texture. The stripped Stool is originally antique English country furniture. Lime Plaster (flipped vertically) Hard Light @...
nature morte
Firstly, I must fess-up, I'm not too used to still-life set-ups, as they're a bit of a new thing for me. But knowing those few basics about three being better than two and five being better than four objects, gets you into the right arrondissement of Nature Morte!...
soft blues
Its uncanny, but when I look at this image, I'm transported back to painting scenic backdrops for Harrods Bridal windows! I had the job of doing all the back few dozen windows, all the while being chased from window to window by the designers. Not that they had...
Geraniums
I've kept this one back a few months because it was a first try-out with the as then unpublished; Lost Void & Lime Plaster textures.Its just a shot of Geraniums & ivy on our north facing window ledge.They caught the sunlight glancing off the stone house windows...
Nostalgia
Cecille Brunner is such a pretty little rose, I have the bush variety and it's lovely at this time of the year. My mother used to have the climbing version in her old garden, it was a huge bush which scrambled up an old plum tree and was smothered in blossom and...