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Spoon
It’s extraordinarily warm here in southern New Zealand today. It’s still technically winter and here we are wearing tee-shirts and sandals and with all the windows open….global warming or just a...
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Spring flower
I hope you’re all enjoying the new Pastel Painterly Textures as much as we are? I’m finding its textures particularly easy to use and not just for my usual flowers and still-lifes either, the...
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Key
It’s that busy spring season here in southern NZ hence the lack of posts here on the blog (Paul has been busy too, slaving away over his scanner ). And with it being spring, you’d have thought I’d...
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Roses
Thought it was time for some more roses to brighten up the blog pages. These are my old favourites Cecile Brunner which are looking particularly beautiful in the garden at the moment, I simply added...
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Forks
mouse-over for before view. Christmas briefly came early for me! The lens that I had ordered as my Christmas present finally arrived yesterday, and I couldn’t resist a quick play before I put it away,...
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Rain in Paradise
mouse-over for before view. On New Years Eve I visited the Queenstown area for the day, Queenstown being a very scenic and busy tourist town and the arguably the adventure tourism capital of New...
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Jam
mouse-over for before view. I have always made my own jam, usually from produce I’ve grown in my garden. As well as knowing exactly what’s gone into the jar, you get the satisfaction of eating...
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Blue
mouse-over for before view. You’ll be pleased to know that the Hydrangea that I planted last season has remained blue! So I’m happy! I’m now hoping the bush will grow a bit bigger now and have a mass...
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New pears
mouse-over for before view. Sorry about our long absence here on the blog, we do have a good excuse though, we’re excited to announce we’re busily working on a wonderful new pack!! You’ll be pleased...
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Hydrangea Blue
mouse-over for before view. Not another hydrangea I hear you saying I’m of the opinion that you can never have too many! They’re such photogenic flowers especially my favourite blue variety. This was...
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Feather Light
mouse-over for before view. I got a new macro lens for my lovely little SonyA7 a couple of weeks and I can definitely say that it’s money well spent! It’s a Sony 90mm F2.8 and the results are...
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Winter Rose
mouse-over for before view. It’s been a while..sorry! Blame holidays and suchlike. You’ll be pleased to know spring is finally starting to spring here in southern New Zealand (though it doesn’t feel...
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Catlins
mouse-over for before view. During the recent summer holidays we paid a visit to the Catlins, a beautiful unspoilt coastal area to the south of Dunedin. The day we visited it wasn’t very summery, but...
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Pretty
mouse-over for before view. It’s been a while since we’ve had some floral prettiness here on the blog! This was taken in our New Zealand spring a few months back. The flowers grow over the fence just...
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Cup of blues
mouse-over for before view. It’s no secret that I love my blue hydrangeas, unfortunately I have trouble growing them, they all seem to revert to pink unless I sprinkle Aluminium Sulphate around the...
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Pink Rose
mouse-over for before view. I was hunting for something to process the other day when I came across this rose image. It’s a nice enough photo untextured but with the addition of just one texture the...
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Late Roses
mouse-over for before view. These are almost the last roses of the season and what a wonderful summer and autumn it’s been here too with sunny days, mild temperatures and not as much rain as usual....
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Vintage Boots
mouse-over for before view. Something a bit different from me this time! You see, every few weeks a group I am a member of over on Flickr runs a fun photo challenge where you’re given three elements...
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Softness
mouse-over for before view. Sorry it’s been such a long time since our last post! We’ve both been busy with more important things like holidays:-) I have spent a lovely 10 days on the tiny Pacific...
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Aquilegia
mouse-over for before view. Once again apologies for the lack of recipe blog posts recently, we’ve been very busy with pack launches and suchlike, hopefully we’ll be posting more here soon, I know...
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