Vanishing points at the Old Melbourne Gaol
When you are learning to draw one of the things you are taught is about vanishing points. How everything can lead to one vanishing point in the distance. All lines lead to them. Using vanishing […]
Getting to where I hated photography – Part 4 of my photography journey
It has been good to hear how many of you are enjoying this series. I’m not sure how many more posts there will be after this, maybe one or two which should bring us up […]
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 […]
Learning to use ON1 Photo Raw 2023 – new software
As I stated last week I am going to be using ON1 Photo Raw 2023 for processing alongside Photoshop. The reason for wanting to do this is that I know not everyone wants to use […]
First garden update for the year
While this is always mainly going to be a photography blog I also want to be able to discuss other things and therefore my garden is going to be part of those discussions.
Making Pizza
Another week and another, but this week we are making pizza. It is a big favourite in my family and one they keep coming back for.
Our Daily, sourdough, bread
When I was doing the posts on the sourdough starter I said I would follow up with some on the bread, so our daily bread is all about sourdough.
Fine Art Portraits and Workflow
Back to my Monday videos and today we are looking at photographers who do fine art portraits, but they also discuss their workflows. Well they talk about why they do.
Some of the artists we learn from
We learn from so many people and photographers from the past are just some of the artists we can learn so much from. Two Americans and one European.
Floral Friday – Alowyn Gardens
Today I was out at Alowyn Gardens and I thought it might be good to do a post on the place for Floral Friday. Though I wasn’t there to take photos.
Art Exhibition – Tudors to Windsors
Today I took a trip up to the Bendigo Art Gallery to see the exhibition Tudors to Windsors. It was an exhibition looking at the Royal Family from the Tudors up to the present day.
Macro class at Alowyn Gardens
Yesterday I ran a macro photography class at Alowyn Gardens. Seems I can’t get away from teaching and I’m planning on doing more.
NEW ON1 Video Library for their users
ON1 are always trying to find ways to help people learn and they have now introduced a new video library for their users.
Podcast Episode 007 – Textures and Framing Prints
Time for another podcast episode, we are up to number 007 now. This week we are looking at using textures and framing prints.
The Fine Art Way – Opening up again
The last few months I’ve had a small number of members in my Fine Art Way group and it has been so rewarding. Not just for me, but for them as well. I love sharing […]
Introducing Artists that I admire – Giambattista Tiepolo
Normally for these posts, the Introducing Artists that I admire, I would showcase an artist, but since it is Easter Monday I thought we could do a shorter post and look at a painting. This […]
Floral Friday and The Fine Art Way
Here we are, ready for Floral Friday, and it is also Good Friday. We don’t really celebrate Easter in our house, beyond it being a great excuse for lots of chocolate Easter eggs. I also […]
Up for Discussion: New Beginning
In the past I’ve tried to work out what everyone wants for these Up for Discussion posts, but do I really know? This is a new beginning for them. It is easy for me to […]
Looking toward the future
Changes are coming, but I am looking forward to the future. I have to start making all this work, as I have spoken about before. I have been getting so much advice on what I […]
Catching up this week.
Summer is almost over, and while a lot of people love this time of year, I’m not one of them. I like the next two seasons. So for this catching up post this week I […]