Floral Friday – A little colour in the garden
At this time of the year there usually isn’t anything in the garden, but as the years go on there is more and more out there in the dead of winter. I don’t understand why […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some mistakes aren’t always that bad
I wish I could say that I’m perfect when it comes to taking photos, but sadly I am far from it.
Floral Friday – Flowers with the Velvet 56
Last week I took the Lensbaby Velvet 56 to Alowyn Gardens to get flowers with it and I thought it would be a good post for Floral Friday.
Floral Friday – Mum’s Garden
When I knew I was coming up here to the Mallee I thought it would be nice to show some photos from Mum’s garden for Floral Friday.
UfD: 10 Things I Can’t Live Without in My Kit
This post was first written May 2015. It was interesting to go back to the original and see how much as changed. I have to say not a lot. I have updated it in a […]
Floral Friday – Experimenting with the Velvet 85
Earlier this week a parcel arrived and in it was a new lens that Lensbaby have loaned to me, the Velvet 85. It is part of the Velvet series. I’ve been using the Velvet 56 […]
Floral Friday
It has been a couple of weeks since I did one of these. It is nice to get back into it and I loved finding so many flowers in my garden when I got home. […]
Floral Friday – A rain soaked Daisy
It has been raining here quite a bit and the flowers in the garden are suffering from it a bit. They seem a bit soaked, or drenched, not sure. It is also nice to see […]
Floral Friday
Sometimes I have trouble working out what to post, then yesterday I posted a photo of a flower on my macro Instagram page and thought perhaps it would be a good one for you as […]
Weekend Wanderings: A morning in the garden
Here we are on Easter Sunday and I haven’t been doing a lot. This morning I spent some time in the garden with the Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Samyang 100mm Macro lens. The garden is […]
Weekend Wanderings: Melbourne Flower Show
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is almost over now and while I only went a couple of times it was great to be there again. I took hundreds of photos, some better than others, […]
Catching up and revisiting Ripponlea
Here are we are again, and it is time to take a look at what I’ve been up to. Lensbaby on Digital Photography School Here is the link to my latest article for Digital Photography […]
Weekend Wandering: The Royal Melbourne Show
It happens every year at this time, and for a long time there was even a public holiday so people could go. We lost that holiday years ago. We were told we had too many […]
Weekend Wanderings: Butterfuly House with the Velvet 56
While I have the Lensbaby Velvet 56 it is my intention to use it as much as possible to see what I can get with it. I do hope you won’t get sick of the […]
Starting a Second Instagram Account
A while back I was telling you how I discovered someone had started an Instagram account with my email address. I changed the password and didn’t know what to do with it. First I put […]
Weekend Wanderings: Flora at Healesville Sanctuary
It has to be said that one of the main reasons I wanted to go to Healesville Sanctuary was to use the Lensbaby Velvet 56 on the flora that I knew would be there. The […]
Weekend Wanderings: Healesville Sanctuary gets a different look
Yesterday I want to the Healesville Sanctuary and decided to use the Lensbaby Velvet 56 to take photos. It was an interesting experience. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, but you do get rather […]