Silent Sunday – Lillies and water
Looking at more of the Water Lillies from the Blue Lotus Water Gardens.
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 […]
Christmas and birthday presents – Some are better than others
Well, I was a very lucky girl at Christmas and look what Santa left me. Did you guess it was a macro lens? This is the Fujifilm XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens. […]
Macro without a Macro 3 – Lensbaby Lenses
Here is the third part in this series about how you can do macro photography if you don’t have a macro lens. This post is about lenses, but they are ones from Lensbaby. They are […]
Silent Sunday – More from the Blue Lotus Water Garden
Here are some photos from the Blue Lotus Water Garden. Great place for photos. Happy Sunday everyone.
Macro without the macro 2 – Extension tubes
I’m a day late with this. I just didn’t have time to get the images I needed for this post. This does mean there will probably be posts for 3 days straight, I hope that’s […]
Silent Sunday – Water Lillies
It is almost time to visit the lotus and water lily gardens again. From 2017. Happy Sunday everyone.
Macro without the macro Part 1 – Using your phone
I was asked the other day if I had an article on how to do macro or close up photos when you don’t have a macro lens. I thought for sure I had written one, […]
Peonies – Processing with ON
Today I thought we might look at processing a macro flower, especially after showing all the ones yesterday. I decided to do it with ON1 Photo Raw 2023, but I am still learning to use […]
Silent Sunday – My macro magic
These are some of the photos I would show people at the start of a macro class so they could see what was possible.
Silent Sunday – Flowers from the garden
A little of the beauty that is in my garden. Happy Sunday.
Spring is in the air – flowers are blooming in the garden
Spring is here in Melbourne and it has been so nice going out into the garden to see what is flowering. I planted lots of bulbs and have done my best to make sure I […]
Into the Cosmos, or maybe just into a cosmos
Quick post today. I was thinking of not doing one at all but then thought why don’t I just share a few images of the cosmos that are growing in my garden.
Flowers with the Tamron 18-300mm lens
Quick post today. I’m running late but wanted to get something to you.
Struman Optics macro lens and a discount
Since you all seemed to enjoy the last post I did on the macro lens for your phone, I thought it might be nice to do a follow-up.
2022 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
Here’s hoping that the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show actually happens this year. It was cancelled last year and the year before.
A new macro lens for my phone
Last week I received a new parcel in the mail and it was a macro lens for my phone from Struman Optics.