Floral Friday – Trying out a trio in my garden
Garden Flowers The following has started flowering in my garden, and this image is a combination of 3 images. Each image is the same composition, I just changed the focus to get the three flowers […]
Monochrome Madness #48 – Leaves and or petals
Dawn from The Day After is leading us this week in the theme for Monochrome Madness and the theme is LEAVES AND OR PETALS. I don’t know about other parts of the world, but this is […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #364 – Quiet moment
This week Ritva is asking us “Where is your serene sanctuary?” for this challenge called Quiet moment. I had to keep asking myself that. Is there a place where I feel that serenity or a […]
Floral Friday – Trying an ON1 preset on some infrared flowers
I thought I might try doing some photos this week using one of the presets I’ve made in ON1 Photo Raw 2025. I don’t think it is lazy, but I like seeing what you end […]
Floral Friday – Trying to do the same thing that I did last week
Last week I used one preset from ON1 Photo Raw 2025 to use on my infrared flowers. I wanted to see if it was possible and what you would get. I did use one of […]
Floral Friday – More from the infrared camera in the garden
I suspect the photos today are from one of the first times I photographed my flowers with my infrared camera. It was around the time I started realising how gorgeous the photos were if you […]
Floral Friday – A tribute to my macro photography in 2024
Today I just wanted to do a quick post and show photos that I took last year. I went through every folder of colour images and picked one from each one, and here are the […]
Floral Friday – Using presets in ON1 to process some flower photos
Presets, love em, hate em. I don’t know, but I’m starting to realise that they can be good especially if you have a style that you like to apply to all your photos. So my […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #348 – Serenity
Our host this week is Egidio from Through Brazilian Eyes and he is asking us to look at SERENITY. Is it just me, but when I think of serenity, the first thing that comes to […]
Floral Friday – The mums are starting to flower in the garden
It is almost Mother’s Day here in Australia and one of the flowers that is always out for this are the Chrysanthemums and I’m so happy that I have a great selection of them out […]
Floral Friday – What’s new in the garden this week
Not many words today. Here are three flowers that have started flowering in my garden this week. Lovely blossoms. We have had a cool week which has been really nice, but it is set to […]
Floral Friday – A closer look at the Rudbeckia
I have my absolute favourite flowers, and then I have others that I love and want to photograph. I think Rudbeckias or cone flowers are somewhere in the middle. I have been trying to grown […]
Floral Friday – In the garden this week
Things are really looking up in the garden right now. There have been so many new flowers and the plants are just blooming. I think all the work I’ve been doing with watering and figuring […]
Floral Friday – More infrared photos from the garden
I hope you like seeing these because I suspect there is going to be a lot more infrared flowers. I think it is becoming one of my favourite ways to photograph flowers. Today I was […]
Floral Friday – More from the garden
This week, we have had rain, rain, and then more rain. The humidity has also been disgusting for Melbourne. We are known more for our dry heat, which is what most of us are used […]
Floral Friday – More flowers with the infrared camera
When I first got an infrared camera I wondered if it would work for plants. I tried taking some photos with it in a rainforest and decided that it didn’t work and you couldn’t really […]
Instagram Photos
I used to do this a lot, but haven’t for a while and I have decided it is time to do it again. While these aren’t the photos from this week, they are all ones […]
Springtime in my garden
The last few days I’ve been out in my garden weeding, so too tired, but here is a touch of springtime. The flowers are starting to come out.