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Tulip Portrait
I love the sculptural quality of tulips because they make such clean, simple images … you can’t go wrong really, can you? I find this type of flower lends itself well to using a black background. Removing a petal allowed the stamen etc to be photographed from the front instead of from above. One of…
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How Did I Get in Here?
After doing some ‘still life’ with this little chap I tried to use my imagination in other ways to involve him in a story and this is the result. It took several days to do stuff in my Paintshop Pro , mainly because it’s fiddly trying to get accurate selections and then reversing them to…
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New Arrivals
For weeks I’ve been bemoaning the fact that I haven’t had any butterflies in my garden – well today there have been several fluttering about and even resting long enough for me to take some pics. I think this particular lot are called Gatekeeper [Pyronia tithonus] because they have twin black eyespots…
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Enjoying the Sunshine
As it was a bright and sunny day and I was stuck indoors doing nothing in particular, I decided to take a stroll down to the Ifield Pond again. Although the scenery is much the same [although changing with the seasons of course], at least the wildlife activity varies and there’s always something different to…
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Poppy & Clematis
I have several lovely poppies trying their best to open up, but they seem to be dying off while still in transition …. was it lack of sunshine I wonder? Well, we have had a few days of warm sunshine now, but they are still stuck! This one opened up enough for me…
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Photo Art
When I can’t find fresh inspiration I sometimes go back and have look through my photo library to see what I could have a bit of fun with. I love using my Paintshop Pro to get creative and try out different effects. Tulips have a lovely sculptural quality to them and I experimented with ‘Gradients’ …