Finally getting this beauty
One of my all-time favourite flowers is a red dahlia. It has dark green foliage and I’ve been trying to get it for my garden for a few years now. However, I always seemed to […]
Silent Sunday – Flowers from the Garden
Whispering here, someone asked about the colour of the turmeric flower, and there is one here in colour.
Lens Artists Challenge #281: Favourite Images of 2023
It is time to get back to the Lens Artists Challenges and this week we have been asked to post our favourite images from 2023. Not really an easy thing to do, but I did […]
Frangipanis on a Friday
Just over 12 months ago my daughter gave me a frangipani plant for Christmas. I’ve had one before but it died, so this time I did some research on how to keep it alive. Apparently, […]
Monochrome Madness – Starting the new year with flowers
Happy New Year. I’m back, don’t know what is going to happen here on the blog, but I will work on some stuff. We will see how it goes. Thank you for all the Christmas […]
What does it mean to be an artist – Is there a job description?
This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I have been a bit distracted though as since I got better I’ve been trying to spend as much time out in the […]
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.
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]