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 […]
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 […]
