Flowers on a Friday
I know I usually do a discussion post on Friday’s, but I’ve been busy in the garden. Trying to get heaps of work done out there and in the greenhouse. I must say the fitness […]
Losing a blogging friend and remembering Bren
Those of you who read my blog know that I do Monochrome Madness along with Bren from BRASHLEY PHOTOGRAPHY, however she hadn’t been posting much. She had made a post that she was battling cancer, […]
Silent Sunday – Playin with Filters
I’ve been playing around with a couple of UV filters and putting stuff on them. These have lip gloss. These have a sugar lift. Happy Sunday.
Silent Sunday – Flowers in the garden
These are some of the flowers you can find in my garden at the moment. They were taken using the Lensbaby Composer Pro II and Sweet 35. Happy Sunday.
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 […]
Antiquing with ON1 Photo Raw 2023 – macro flowers
I was trying to work out what to do today for some editing and then I thought why don’t I just put one of my macro photos into ON1 Photo Raw 2023 and see what happens. […]
Silent Sunday – More of the macro from 2014
Also, some other macro that isn’t flowers. Happy Sunday.
Is macro photography the direction I should head in?
I first fell in love with macro photography back in 1997, I think it was. I had joined a photography club where some people showed macro photos of flowers; it was instant love. Unfortunately, I […]
Using a manual again – Lensbaby Velvet 56
I have talked about the Velvet 56 from Lensbaby before and for macro, it is one of my favourite lenses. You can achieve a lot with it, but at the same time, you also have […]
Extension tubes vs no extension tubes
I know I did a post about extension tubes once before, and I think I told you that I was going to try and get more to see how they would work. Well, I got […]
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.