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 […]
Teaching a class on photographing flowers at Alowyn Gardens
While I’m not running my business anymore, I don’t mind running the odd class here and there. I was asked if I would be interested in running a class at Alowyn Gardens. I said yes. […]
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.
Weekend Wanderings – Alowyn Gardens through the Holga Lens
This morning I ran a macro class at Alowyn Gardens and once it was done I took some photos for Weekend Wanderings of the place through the Holga Lens.
Floral Friday – Light hitting a Tulip
It is time for my Floral Friday post and today I was keen to work on a photo of a tulip that the light was hitting it in an unusual way. I tend to hate […]
Macro class at Alowyn Gardens
Yesterday I ran a macro photography class at Alowyn Gardens. Seems I can’t get away from teaching and I’m planning on doing more.