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 […]
Monochrome Madness – Passion without the colour
I’m a bit late this week. I have been trying to work out how to use the latest version of Photoshop. Not gonna lie, but I hate it. Is it just me or does it […]
Monchrome Madness – Florals with no colour
This week, again, I’ve gone through my photos to find ones that I have processed before in monochrome. I’m still on the fence about flowers in black and white, but I think it would be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Macro without the macro Part 1 – Using your phone
I was asked the other day if I had an article on how to do macro or close up photos when you don’t have a macro lens. I thought for sure I had written one, […]
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 […]