New Zealand Wanderings – Dunedin Botanical Gardens
My car and other things have kept me busy this week, so I thought we could do another New Zealand Wanderings and look back at the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. They are stunning and you can’t […]
Floral Friday – Phone photos of flowers
To I used the Struman Optics phone lenses for floral friday and I thought we could look at some photos of flowers that I took today with my phone. I’ve tried to get my garden […]
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 […]
Floral Friday – Dahlias
The dahlias are finished for the year, but I thought it might be nice to take another look at them for Floral Friday. I can’t wait for them to be back.
Influencing Me – Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers
My Influencing Me post today is more on macro style photography and I thought we could look at Robert Mapplethorpe’s flowers. He has a different way of photographing them.
Floral Friday – Dunedin Botanical Gardens
For the Floral Friday post today I thought it might be nice to show you some photos I took when visiting the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. I took a few, but have only prepared three.
Floral Friday – Flower from Dunedin
Today seemed like a good day to do a Floral Friday post with a flower I photographed from Dunedin. It is a quick post.
A flower today
To say it is getting crazy would be an understatement and so I thought a short post today with a flower for you to see. I photographed it in my garden.
Weekend Wanderings – Australian Gardens
Weekend Wanderings is about the Australian Gardens that are in Cranbourne. They are also the Australian Botanical Gardens and showcase many of the native plants that you find here.
Favourite Flower 2 – Chrysanthemums
Last week I mentioned Dahlias and this week I wanted to tell you about the 2nd flower that is a favourite of mine, chrysanthemums. Every time I think of them I remember that scene from […]
Weekend Wanderings – Country Dahlias
If you love dahlias, then you would love to do some weekend wanderings around Country Dahlias in Winchelsea. It is quite an amazing place.
Influencing Me – Leslie Gleim
A year or so ago I was going to post work by Leslie Gleim, but it didn’t happen, I stopped doing the posts. Today I am happy to show you Leslie’s work for my Influencing […]
Playing with a Fisheye Lens on my Phone
Today I was at Alowyn Gardens to talk about some macro photography classes. While there I spent some time playing around the fisheye lens from Struman Optics on my phone.
The show is over
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is over for the year and now I have 100’s of photos that I will need to sort through. Once that is done I can work out which […]
Influencing Me – Paul Barson
Macro photography is something I’ve always enjoyed doing. However, processing it has been something that took me some time to work out. When I first discovered Influencing Me – Paul Barson‘s work, I would be […]
MIFGS – Struman macro lens
One of the things that I love about visiting the MIFGS each year is catching up with the Struman Optics team and their lenses. This year I’ve been playing with a new macro lens for […]
MIFGS – Opening day
Yesterday was the first day of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and opening day was massive. There were so many people there.
Flower and Garden Show last year
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show for 2019 starts tomorrow, so I thought it might be nice to look back on some photos from last year.
Weekend Wanderings – End of Season
Sometimes you have to know when it is the right time to visit places. It seems for this Weekend Wanderings post my recent visit to the Blue Lotus Water Gardens was a bust as it […]
My Garden – A dahlia
After yesterday’s post it seemed like a nice idea to show you a flower from my garden. This is one of my dahlias. It is growing well.