Luminar ai sky
mouse-over for before view. We’d both like to wish all our fans a very Merry Christmas and Happy virol free New Year! Before the bleak mid-winter sets in, or high summer for our lucky Oz/Nz fans, we thought you’d like to hear about this fab new Luminar ai app which is a stand-alone app and/or […]
Cup of blues
mouse-over for before view. It’s no secret that I love my blue hydrangeas, unfortunately I have trouble growing them, they all seem to revert to pink unless I sprinkle Aluminium Sulphate around the plant and I’m hopeless at remembering to do this, the result, pink hydrangeas this year! So while I was out on one […]
Hydrangea Blue
mouse-over for before view. Not another hydrangea I hear you saying 🙂 I’m of the opinion that you can never have too many! They’re such photogenic flowers especially my favourite blue variety. This was textured with a mix of old and new Flypapers, one texture came from our ever popular Summer painterly pack and one […]
Blue
mouse-over for before view. You’ll be pleased to know that the Hydrangea that I planted last season has remained blue! So I’m happy! I’m now hoping the bush will grow a bit bigger now and have a mass of flowers to brighten a fairly bland corner of my garden. While we’re on the hydrangea subject, […]
Winnats Pass Lambs
I shot this English pastoral scene back in June, midsummer, but you’d never know it from the picture, having had such a long wet winter the sun had only just begun to warm to earth up on these Derbyshire moors. Its a favorite visiting haunt of mine because as kids we’d come for the […]
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 the HD copy and watching it when […]
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 parades, because they have so much rich photographic material! […]
Peninsula
Yesterday afternoon we went for a quick drive out to Otago Peninsula and got some much needed exercise walking up the hill to the Highcliff War memorial, it was a short but steep climb but the views from the top are wonderful and it was worth the walk. This is one of the shots […]
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. Also, if you later want […]
To the Sea
Skies are difficult things to get right, I normally use a PL filter on my lens to get darker deeper blues at the cost of the foreground being too dark as above, this is where textures come in handy to lift those dark areas, but I also like to pre-process in Nik Color Efex […]
Violets
I love spring and I love violets, in fact I love all flowers but they’re much better if they’re fragrant. This is one of several photos I took of this little vase of flowers, I’m so glad I turned around and took a couple of photos into the light, yes, that’s a window in […]
Gentle Annie
I have just returned from a lovely weeks holiday on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. It’s one of my favourite areas in this country with it’s mountains, temperate rain forests and wonderfully wild and unspoiled beaches. It does get a lot of rainfall but we were lucky in the week we […]
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 ideas we are working on here, much to their approval ! This […]
Hydrangea
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 garden!
Lace
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) which grows very readily in my garden […]
river bathers
A couple of summers ago, I drove north east in search of Lavender fields, I didn’t get very far, as I was distracted by the gigantic Pont du Gard, which surely has to be the worlds most famous Roman Aqueduct! Unfortunately this is a view from the Aqueduct and not the landmark, which I’m sure […]
La Balance
In France balance is everything, I live near two coastal volcano’s; looking eastward from our beach we can see Agde and ten miles further along the coast on a clear day we can see Sete, which is an island connected by a spit of land. Back in London we celebrated the 2000 millennium on […]
Dune Path
We’re having major sand-dune renovations! Our coastline isn’t as built up as the more trendy next door Provençal beaches, we’re cut off from their beaches by the Camargue wetlands. The main difference being that ‘Nice’ has no sand, only pebbles and Cannes has to import it every spring, whilst we have plenty! They’re now trying […]
Dino
From central London its just a short overground train journey to get to Crystal palace, or what is left of it, after a huge fire burnt it to the ground in November 1936. Built for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, and later moved several miles south of the London river Themes, to Crystal Palace […]
le grand mouche – the big fly!
A strong dry wind has been blowing through our area for so long, even the palm trees have been wind burnt on their north sides, and our natural beaches have lost much of their lovely dune tops and are now smeared all over the place! Taking a good camera into such sandblasted conditions, is at […]
Albion on Sea
From Jill and I, ‘Paul’ hope you all had Happy Holidays! 🙂 As its now midwinter, I thought it might be nice to revisit the summer, last August on a balmy evening on England’s Eastborne beach at sunset. One good thing about post-processing is its always possible to go back and redo images with your […]
Chasing the wind
Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here’s today’s, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will hopefully not be as muddled as this one with […]
Looking North
Another photo of my favourite beach, taken on a warmer and sunnier day than the previous photo of it I posted here. I was lucky that I managed to catch a passing gull when I snapped this. Onto the processing… Beau Linge Paysage @ Soft Light 13% masked from the lower portion of the photo […]
The King and I
Over in Thailand they are now suffering badly from flooding, when we were there at this famous Unesco protected site we learned that this area of ruins was the original setting for Rogers and Hammerstein’s – The King and I musical! The blockbuster movie was about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in […]
