I treated myself to a bouquet of flowers to cheer up my home working desk at the start of the new year. It included some lovely roses and lilies, but it was the Antique Carnations that really caught the attention of me and my camera lens. The frilly edges and gorgeous colour transitions were a …
EDIT: I am grateful for a friend who found out that I was photographing dried ‘brunia’. Brunia is a shrub native to the cape region of South Africa. It has white pompom-like flowers. I received a beautiful bouquet of winter flowers at Christmas from my other half. The flowers themselves are now residing in our …
Last week I posted the first set of photos of the Allium growing in my garden. I’ve been monitoring them daily and went out again today with my camera and macro lens to capture how they’re developing. To be honest, though, it wasn’t until I sat down and viewed these images on the large computer …
Who doesn’t love an allium? Those impossibly large stems and bold ball-like seedheads are gorgeous. We planted a few bulbs two or three years ago and I am delighted they’ve multiplied in number this year. They’re about to pop open. I’ll have to take some more photos once they are in their full splendor.
I had heard the name ‘Ruskin’ but knew little of the man until visiting Brantwood House and Gardens last weekend. It turns out he was a rather interesting and influential man. A little quote by him caught my attention – “Take a handful of rubble from the roadside, and pick out a small stone. When examined …
I spotted this crafty idea on Pinterest and couldn’t wait to try it out. These ‘flowers’ are made using wet felting and are supposed to look like ‘Billy Buttons’ or ‘Craspedia’. This is actually the second bunch of felted flowers that I’ve made. The first bunch – in purple – were made as a present …
I few weeks ago I blogged about how I was starting to learn about Layers and Filters in Photoshop. I’ve been having another play around this afternoon and I like some of the results I am getting. Here’s an example using one of my photos from last weekend. I’ve not quite sussed out how to …
We had a lovely visit to the Morningside Makers Market on Saturday which has given me some real inspiration to try to do more with my photographs. We bought a fantastic framed print from one of the ladies – Paper Snapdragon. She was using her photography but had manipulated it in Photoshop with some interesting techniques – …
Can not believe that this will be my 100th Blog Post! Thanks to everyone who has been following my posts over the last year or so – hope you have enjoyed them and will continue to enjoy them. This post returns to a subject that I’ve covered a few times in the past – flowers. …
The Botanic Gardens always provide some great photographic opportunities. Today I went along with my parents who were up visiting for a weekend of festival activities. They wanted to get some inspiration for their new garden so we headed straight to the alpine garden section of the Botanics. Considering it was quite breezy, I was …
James dragged me out for some fresh air, a walk in the park & some geocaching this afternoon. All very successful apart from the geocaching which we failed to find! I took the camera along and got a few shots which i’ve been having a play around with. Another regal lion statue to go with …
Last week I posted a few images of flowers that I’d taken. I didn’t try many against a white background during that session, but was really pleased with how they came out. Luckily for me the flowers have lasted well over the week so today I could re-use them for a second mini photo-shoot. This …
I set myself a little project for this weekend to take a selection of close-up images of some flowers. I dragged James to Asda with me to buy a couple of bunches of flowers, set up a little photo studio in the study, and then got snapping. I think the images are very effective for …