Floral Friday: Flowers in the Rain
A couple of weeks ago I was at Alowyn Gardens taking photos of the flowers before and after the rain. Water drops on flowers are fantastic, they really bring out the colours of the flowers.
Floral Friday: Rain on Flowers
It is wet in Melbourne, really wet. The forecast is for heavy rain over the next few days, flash flooding and more flooding. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I mean the way we […]
Floral Friday – Flowers from a couple of visits
Last weekend I taught my first macro photography class. It went well I think. I had a friend doing the class and she said she thought it was good.
Floral Friday – Alowyn Gardens
Usually for these posts I show you a close up of a flower, but I thought it might be nice to show you one of Alowyn Gardens with the wisteria out in full bloom.
Floral Friday: Velvet series
Yesterday, I had a trip to Alowyn Gardens. I think it is one of the best places to test lenses for macro photography. Right now there are flowers everywhere. It was fantastic to see it […]
Floral Friday – Experimenting with the Velvet 85
Earlier this week a parcel arrived and in it was a new lens that Lensbaby have loaned to me, the Velvet 85. It is part of the Velvet series. I’ve been using the Velvet 56 […]
Macro Photography from the Beginning
There are all these articles that were written when I was doing the Dynamic Range Magazine, and it seems like such a waste that they were written and will never be seen again. I thought […]
Floral Friday – Phone photos with new lenses
Have I told you about the new phone lenses that I got from Struman Optics?
Floral Friday
It has been a couple of weeks since I did one of these. It is nice to get back into it and I loved finding so many flowers in my garden when I got home. […]
Floral Friday – Flowers with the phone
This week has been exciting as I got some lenses for my phone to try out. They are from a company called Struman Optics and they are the best ones I’ve seen so far. I […]
Floral Friday – A rain soaked Daisy
It has been raining here quite a bit and the flowers in the garden are suffering from it a bit. They seem a bit soaked, or drenched, not sure. It is also nice to see […]
Floral Friday
Only one flower today, I’m afraid I’ve been a bit slack with the macros this week. I’ve been busy and I have the Canon 5D4 I need to play with before it goes back. However, […]
Floral Friday with 2 flowers
It has been good to see how many of you have been enjoying my Floral Friday’s and since I have my macro Instagram page I nearly always have photos to show. Today I thought I […]
Some flowers from Alowyn Gardens
Last weekend I showed you some photos of the grounds at Alowyn Gardens and I said I would show you some of the flowers. I forgot until Julie mentioned it, so thought I should do […]
A winter trip to Alowyn Gardens
This afternoon a friend picked me up so we could go to Alowyn Gardens in Yarra Glen for some macro photography. I am still trying out the Samyang 100mm lens and thought it would be […]
A quick macro post
Today, I just wanted to show you a few of my macro images. I love doing them, and I want to start showing them more.
Weekend Wanderings: A morning in the garden
Here we are on Easter Sunday and I haven’t been doing a lot. This morning I spent some time in the garden with the Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Samyang 100mm Macro lens. The garden is […]
Gear – Samyang 100mm Macro Lens
One of the benefits of being a contributer/writer for Digital Photography School is that I get to try out a lot of new gear. It can be good, see what is happening out there, but […]
Weekend Wanderings: Melbourne Flower Show
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is almost over now and while I only went a couple of times it was great to be there again. I took hundreds of photos, some better than others, […]
Weekend Wanderings: Looking back at past Flower and Garden Shows
Earlier in the week I received an email to tell me that my application for accreditation to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show was accepted. I’m looking forward to spending some time there, for […]