Floral Friday: Velvet series
Yesterday, I had a trip to Alowyn Gardens. I think it is one of the best places to test lenses for macro photography. Right now there are flowers everywhere. It was fantastic to see it […]
Floral Friday – Experimenting with the Velvet 85
Earlier this week a parcel arrived and in it was a new lens that Lensbaby have loaned to me, the Velvet 85. It is part of the Velvet series. I’ve been using the Velvet 56 […]
Floral Friday
It has been a couple of weeks since I did one of these. It is nice to get back into it and I loved finding so many flowers in my garden when I got home. […]
Floral Friday – A rain soaked Daisy
It has been raining here quite a bit and the flowers in the garden are suffering from it a bit. They seem a bit soaked, or drenched, not sure. It is also nice to see […]
Floral Friday – Spring approaches
It is great going out to the garden now, I can see new flowers all the time. Spring is approaching, and quickly. The biggest problem is the wind, the gale forces that we keep getting, […]
Floral Friday
Sometimes I have trouble working out what to post, then yesterday I posted a photo of a flower on my macro Instagram page and thought perhaps it would be a good one for you as […]
Weekend Wanderings: A morning in the garden
Here we are on Easter Sunday and I haven’t been doing a lot. This morning I spent some time in the garden with the Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Samyang 100mm Macro lens. The garden is […]
Weekend Wanderings: Melbourne Flower Show
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is almost over now and while I only went a couple of times it was great to be there again. I took hundreds of photos, some better than others, […]
Catching up and looking back at Woomelang
As I was saying the other day, it has been a strange week, in a good way, but I have felt a bit all over the place. Some good things have happened, which is nice. […]
Catching Up and looking back at Apollo Bay
Busy day ahead and I considered not doing this post, but thought I would do one briefly. I need your thoughts on something. Dynamic Range Magazine We are all set for publishing and should be […]
Catching up and revisiting Ripponlea
Here are we are again, and it is time to take a look at what I’ve been up to. Lensbaby on Digital Photography School Here is the link to my latest article for Digital Photography […]
Another Week on Instagram
The weeks do fly by, and today I will be doing the Monochrome Madness post, so this is a good post to do. These are the image that have been up on Instagram this past […]
Weekend Wandering: The Royal Melbourne Show
It happens every year at this time, and for a long time there was even a public holiday so people could go. We lost that holiday years ago. We were told we had too many […]
Weekend Wanderings: Butterfuly House with the Velvet 56
While I have the Lensbaby Velvet 56 it is my intention to use it as much as possible to see what I can get with it. I do hope you won’t get sick of the […]
Instagram this Week and Another Article
The last couple of weeks I have been talking a lot about Lensbaby, and I hope you get the idea that I really love them. They have been great lenses for me and recently I […]
Starting a Second Instagram Account
A while back I was telling you how I discovered someone had started an Instagram account with my email address. I changed the password and didn’t know what to do with it. First I put […]
Weekend Wanderings: Flora at Healesville Sanctuary
It has to be said that one of the main reasons I wanted to go to Healesville Sanctuary was to use the Lensbaby Velvet 56 on the flora that I knew would be there. The […]
Weekend Wanderings: a macro look at a garden
My mother’s garden to be more precise. On my recent trip to my mums the first day there was horrible, it just rained and rained. My friend and I tried to get out to take […]
On Instagram Recently
It has been a while since I did a post showing you the photos that I have had up on Instagram. I usually do it with a catch up post, though all I’ve been working […]
Weekend Wanderings – Other Birds at Healesville Sanctuary
Last week I showed you the birds from the Spirits of the Sky show at Healesville Sanctuary, but I took so many other photos that I thought it might be good to show you them […]