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 – Processing with new toys
For the free week this time, I’m just showing one image. It was taken almost 12 months ago, and I don’t really know why I picked it, but you see, we got a new computer […]
One Four Challenge – Blossoms on a tree Week 1
This is going to be my last month this year for this challenge. I’m going to take November and December off and probably January as well. I’m still undecided whether to continue doing it, and […]
One Four Challenge – Ferry boat for you to follow along with Week 4
Last week with this image and I hope you have liked it so far. I’ve struggled working out what people would like for this challenge, or if they want it at all. This month has […]
Being a wedding photographer for a special friend of the family
I need to start this by saying I am not a wedding photographer and while I have done them, I’m not comfortable doing them. However, when my friend’s daughter rang me and asked me if […]
One Four Challenge – Ferry boat for you to follow along with Week 3
How are you going? Are you still with me? Like I said I’m trying to make these easy to do. Some simple things to do to your images that can make them pop a bit […]
One Four Challenge – Ferry boat for you to follow along with Week 2
As we did last week this week I have another thing for you to do to the image or for something for you to try. I’m trying to make these simple and don’t want to […]
One Four Challenge – Ferry boat for you to follow along with Week 1
I thought this month we might do something very different with the challenge. I hope it is something that you will like, and maybe even follow along with. For this month, the base image I […]
One Four Challenge – The Nut and Clouds Week 4
The last week for the month. I find I enjoy this challenge. I like seeing how far I can push myself. Though this month I have intentionally picked something easy to help show you that […]
One Four Challenge – The Nut and Clouds Week 3
This week is going to be a quick one because I didn’t do that much more than last week. Before we get started, for those of you who are interested in what the One Four […]
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 […]
One Four Challenge – The Nut and Clouds Week 2
As I said last week I’m concentrating on clouds for this month’s image and trying to see how different I can make it. Though having said that, this week and the next two are using […]
One Four Challenge – The Nut and Clouds Week 1
I’m still trying to make up my mind whether to keep doing this challenge. Joanne and I have talked about it, and we are both wondering if we should continue. I think she would like […]
One Four Challenge – Experimenting with the stone bridge from Yosemite Extra Week
So this is the fifth Thursday for the month and I decided to do something a little different. However, before we get started, for those of you who are interested in what the One Four […]
One Four Challenge – Experimenting with the stone bridge from Yosemite Week 4
Before we get started, for those of you who are interested in what the One Four Challenge is, you can find out by going to this link for more information. Please take a look at Joanne’s post as […]
One Four Challenge – Experimenting with the stone bridge from Yosemite Week 3
Back again with the old stone bridge from Yosemite National Park. I hope that is what it is called. I tried to find out if there was a name for the bridge, but couldn’t find […]
One Four Challenge – Experimenting with the stone bridge from Yosemite Week 2
Here we are with Week 2 of that bridge at Yosemite. I sort of had an idea of what I was going to do with this one. Sometimes an image will just speak to you, […]
Trying to process some of my Uluru images with Affinity Photo 2
I spent all day the other day working on some photos that I took of Uluru when I was there in 2022. As most of you know I’m trying hard not use any Adobe products […]
One Four Challenge – Experimenting with the stone bridge from Yosemite Week 1
For this month I decided to play around with an image that I took at Yosemite National Park when I was there in 2015. It was taken early in the morning while we were out […]
Making a better sunrise at that Wanaka Tree
Last weekend I showed you some photos that I changed with ON1 Photo Raw 2025 and today I have another one. Most of the photos I’ve shown you from Wanaka of That Tree were taken […]