Floral Friday – Some flowers from the garden with the Lensbaby
I’ve been getting out in the garden with various lenses, though the Lensbaby Velvet 56mm has been on my Fujifilm X-T3 for a while now. As you can guess that is what has been used […]
Floral Friday – Groups with the Lensbaby
I went out the other morning to take photos of the yellow flower below with the Lensbaby Velvet 56 on my Fujifilm X-T3. I purchased three of these flowers last autumn, and they went dormant […]
Floral Friday – Some of the first Lensbaby photos
These are images from 2016 and they are among some of the first images I ever took with Lensbaby lenses. I didn’t have the velvet, but had some other ones as well. So I’m not […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #288 – Window Shopping
What an interesting challenge this is. Thank you Ritva for hosting this week. My first thought was what was window shopping and when I googled it the dictionary said The activity of looking at goods […]
Monochrome Madness – A floral tribute
Welcome back. As we spoke last week we talked about maybe having other hosts for Monochrome Madness. I’ve had a couple of people reach out and we’re trying to work out the details. I think […]
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 […]
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 […]
Silent Sunday – Playin with Filters
I’ve been playing around with a couple of UV filters and putting stuff on them. These have lip gloss. These have a sugar lift. Happy Sunday.
Out on my own – Part 6 of my photography journey
When I began this I thought I would do one part, then when I started I thought 2 or 3, but here we are at 6. I’m hoping this is the last one, but I […]
Importing to Lightroom – How I do it
It would be easy to say that there is only one to do something like importing photos, but the truth is ask a 100 people and you might find 100 ways to do it. I […]
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 […]