Floral Friday – Some close ups from Alowyn Gardens
After using the tripod quite a bit in my own garden, it was time to try it out at a different place. When my friend and I went to Alowyn Gardens, I took the tripod […]
Monochrome Madness – Infrared images from Alowyn Gardens
I have been looking at the images I took at Alowyn Gardens recently with my infrared camera and thought I would share some for this free week for Monochrome Madness. It is the perfect place […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #368 – Looking Back to Challenge #106: Autumn or not
I’m going to start this post with a massive whinge, and I’m sorry about that, but I hate challenges like this. For those who don’t know, I live in the Southern Hemisphere, and for everyone […]
Floral Friday – All views lead to the fountain at Alowyn Gardens
I finally got back there recently and all I wanted to do was use my infrared camera. I think display gardens are great for infrared photos. All the plants just waiting to see what the […]
Monochrome Madness – Things in the garden in monochrome
I don’t know about you, but sometimes for Monochrome Madness when it isn’t a theme I find it hard to work out what to convert to monochrome and then post. This week was no different. […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #311 – What’s in a Garden
I love this challenge Ann-Christine, thank you so much for picking it. You can see what she said about it here, LEYA. What’s in a garden can mean so many things and places. She has […]
Timelapse videos – the wonder of it
I want to get back into doing timelapse videos again. I was trying to do more a few years ago and then other things got in the way. So today I’m just going to put […]
Silent Sunday – Looking back at flowers from Alowyn Gardens
I’ve been busy experimenting with some stuff, but it isn’t ready to share with you yet, so I need some more time. I also have the photos I took along the coast to process, so […]
Flowers from Alowyn Gardens – Processed with Lightroom
Here we are with the first video tutorial for the year. This week we are looking at processing some macro flowers in Lightroom Classic. It is my first one using Lightroom. I was asked if […]
Trying to get my act together.
Really I am, but I am finding it so hard. Being a housewife means I don’t have a lot of time, yeah I’m kidding. I just don’t seem to be into social media as I […]
Excursions to take photos
Well, yeah I know, I’m being too slack. I think since I have started working on YouTube it is so much easier to just talk.
Floral Friday – New flowers in the garden
While my dahlias are going well there are new flowers in the garden and I thought I would share them with you today for Floral Friday. Two are new and one is just reflowering.
Floral Friday – Flowers with the Velvet 56
Last week I took the Lensbaby Velvet 56 to Alowyn Gardens to get flowers with it and I thought it would be a good post for Floral Friday.
Floral Friday – Struman Optics in my garden
For Floral Friday I headed out to my garden with the macro lens from Struman Optics to take photos in it. I have a class coming up that is teaching people about using their phones […]
Springtime at Alowyn Gardens
As I said yesterday I am going to show you more photos of Alowyn Gardens where springtime has emerged. It is probably one of the best times of the year there.
Floral Friday – My second garden
I know I said that I would do Floral Friday images from my garden, but it has to be said that Alowyn Gardens is like my second garden.
Floral Friday – Alowyn Gardens
Today I was out at Alowyn Gardens and I thought it might be good to do a post on the place for Floral Friday. Though I wasn’t there to take photos.
Floral Friday – Winter garden
It seemed like a good idea to show some of the photos from the Winter garden workshop last weekend for Floral Friday today. The garden at this time of the year can be interesting.