Floral Friday – Some favourites from this year
I thought it might be nice to just show you some of my favourite flowers that I have taken this year. These were nearly all taken in my garden, I think. It isn’t always easy […]
Trying something new
I wanted to start by saying that I hope everyone in the US had a good thanksgiving. Now this is a bit of a lazy post. I have been trying to figure out how to […]
Floral Friday – More from the garden
This week, we have had rain, rain, and then more rain. The humidity has also been disgusting for Melbourne. We are known more for our dry heat, which is what most of us are used […]
Floral Friday – More flowers with the infrared camera
When I first got an infrared camera I wondered if it would work for plants. I tried taking some photos with it in a rainforest and decided that it didn’t work and you couldn’t really […]
Finally the dahlias are starting to flower
A couple of the dahlias have started flowering and many of the others have got buds that are about to burst open. While there are others that are only just started to come up. Funny […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #325 – Gratitude or luck
This week Tina from Travels and Trifles is asking us about gratitude and what we are grateful for. I find this a hard concept to get my head around, as I don’t think we, as […]
Comparing phones with some flowers from the garden
Here is the post to compare the two phones. My previous phone was the Samsung A73 and now I have the Google Pixel 9. As I said yesterday the biggest reason for getting the new […]
Floral Friday – Flower photos from my phone
I don’t know if you remembered that a while back I showed you some photos taken with my husbands new phone. He got the Pixel 8 and when I saw how good the photos were, […]
Floral Friday – From one Friday with roses to the next
This week I have photos taken over the last week, but they are the same flowers. I decided to try setting up something inside for photos. I choose to pick some roses from my garden […]
Floral Friday – Looking back at older visits to mum’s garden
Since I’ve been helping my mum so much recently and last week I showed some photos from her garden, I thought today we could reflect on some images I’ve done in the past. I think […]
Monochrome Madness – Switching off the colour in my flowers
When I posted my photos on Sunday of the infrared flowers I was asked by Lois what the difference between infrared flowers and normal monochrome flowers. I did photograph some of them with both and […]
Floral Friday – Looking back at my first Lensbaby photos
I got my first Lensbaby lenses back in 2016 and I thought it would go with the Lens-Artists Challenge of Looking Back so here are some of those photos. In 2016 a box arrived from […]
Monochrome Madness – Flowers out in the garden
This week is a non theme one for monochrome madness and when I was trying to work out what to do for it I decided to get out in the garden. There are lots of […]
Floral Friday – What is flowering this week
Spring is here and it is getting warmer. Every time I go out into the garden there are new flowers. It is so nice after such a long time with almost nothing. I need to […]
Floral Friday – The orange flowers in the backyard
I was out in the garden yesterday and around my greenhouse are these orange flowers. I believe they are called Calendulas and they are growing everywhere. I don’t pull them out because I don’t mind […]
Finding an old house next to the road
When I did the hike to the rainforest we came home a back way and along the road, we came across this old house. Since Chris was driving we stopped and took photos. I love […]
Floral Friday – Some favourites from the garden
The weather is warming up and finally things are flowering in the garden. It is time to start getting ready for summer. I’ve been in the garden a lot this week. Boy it is hard […]
Floral Friday – Photos from the Google Pixel 8
Dave has one of these phones and he won’t give it to me. OMG I love the camera in it. It is so good. I took it out into the garden to do some photos […]