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Posies
I decided to make some posies of flowers out of a large arrangement that I have picked apart. They filled several small (and large) vases and I photographed the small bunches in the conservatory using natural light then added some textures to them to finish.
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Still Life with Texture
It's a long time since I created any images of this kind, so I am enjoying revisiting working with textures...three today and probably some more to come...
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Macro Water Drops with Refraction
Whilst preparing a talk on macro photography to deliver at one of my photographic clubs, I became fascinated by the tiny world of images refracted through water droplets. There are some incredibly beautiful examples to be seen on the web and my offerings here are a first attempt. As with everything in life, we become better by practice and I have already discovered some of the things that I have done wrong so far, so with a little patience, hopefully my next attempts will be better. Lesson 1 learned…Ideally, pictures taken outdoors would provide more natural looking backgrounds…whereas my indoor shots, in some cases, managed to make a perfectly formed…
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Flowers
Blending textures with photographs has been a favourite technique of mine for some years, though many of my textures are more subtle than this one. I liked the way the colours in the chosen background textures echoed the colours of the vase. A recent competition image, Gerbera received an HM ribbon, Judge’s medal and PSA Gold medal for best in show in its first outing to the Great British Small Prints international. Sunflowers, below, was made using the same technique.
