Today I went to our city's huge 24 hour second hand book sale held in the theatre it raises funds for. There are thousands of books on sale with more put out all the time so it's a great way to stock the shelves. Book dealers are there in force and you can spot them a...
Tex Box 1
steps at the end of the beach
Whilst looking for other things I came across this old beach picture from a Thailand trip a year ago. I'm not sure where it was shot, perhaps its same The Beach movie location again! At night Martine and I would walk barefoot home from town, holding our sandals in the...
Apples
These very small and very scruffy apples came from a roadside tree, I'd picked them hoping they'd be sour as I had intended making a savoury chilli jelly, I discovered however that they're sweet with very tough skins....definitely not for eating but they made good...
Canal avenue
Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a 'keeper' being...
A little late lunch
Hanmer springs is a lovely alpine village famed for its beautiful natural hot springs, it also has some great tracks to walk and cycle. I spotted this guy -a mule if I'm not mistaken, when we were out for a walk. He wasn't going to stop eating for anything, or come...
Power Line
Another one of my "out the car window" shots where I've had to do a little "cleaning" of the pesky fence posts that appeared in the raw image -what would we do without photoshop 🙂 This was taken in the early evening light on our way home from visiting family in...
Dream Beach
This is a view towards the wonderful white limestone cliffs at the end of Napenape beach near Cheviot in Canterbury. When we were there it was all but deserted, apart from a woman surf-casting and a small cluster of caravans used by fishermen there wasn't a soul in...
Make-over winner!
This week a texture contest came to an end over at our friends site; Elizabeth Halford.com. We'd like to thank all who entered and add that picking a winner was very difficult. I think, finally it was the mist we liked in this winning farm scene by Christopher Miller...
The Sheep and the Rock
This was taken when I was away on holiday almost a month ago. We decided to explore some of the countryside around the little town of Cheviot where we were staying for a day or so and we ended up on a road leading high into the hills. It started as an ordinary country...
les visiteurs
Captured from the hip on my way up to the spectacular bell-view, previously photographed many times, next door to the cathedral, which can just be glimpsed at the top, behind the end house. I spent hours removing the electrical clutter, mostly from the right hand side...