Cloudscapes have always been one of my photo passions and lately I've been extending my skills using the Olympus Live Composite mode. These dawn and dusk shots of the Hogsback skyline from Wild Fox Hill are the longest I've taken. They're 15 minutes of one second exposures, so each picture is a composite combining 900... Continue Reading →
Light Painting Mats Jonasson’s Otters Playing
One of the most delightful pieces of Målerås Glass is Mats Jonasson's Otters Playing - two twisting otters chasing a fish, all embedded within a matrix of sheer lead crystal glass. I wanted to see if I could use light painting to add the effect of a flow of liquid to his creation so I... Continue Reading →
Orchard Chorus: PlantWave in Dalarna
I'm so pleased with the reception of the Hogsback Symphony that I've decided to use my very first set of PlantWave recordings for another. I recorded the fruit trees in and around two of Dalarna's beautiful baroque orchards: at Gamla Staberg and Källslätten. They were all burgeoning with fruit in the glorious autumn weather: mostly... Continue Reading →
Three Juxtaposed Hogsback Landscapes
I was very pleased with the reception to the Juxtaposed Dalarna Landscapes posted previously and that's inspired me to try something similar with the work in the Hogsback gallery I have already published. Hogsback Juxtaposed: SuperMoon Rising In the Dalarna landscapes there's lots of potential to juxtapose images on top of the reflections of the... Continue Reading →
Three Juxtaposed Dalarna Landscapes
If you've followed posts in this blog or in my social media you'll know that I have a long standing fascination with mirroring and overlaying landscapes and nature. These three pictures are the latest incarnation. We were in Dalarna, Sweden, for the autumn of 2022 and here I've tried to capture - through overlays -... Continue Reading →
Hogsback Symphony with PlantWave
This is something different. In July 2014 I had my first experience of plant sound - it was Dan Fox’s installation ‘Harmonica Botanica’ at the Cragside gardens in Northumberland. I just loved the concept and sensation of hearing a laurel plant grow. Eight years have passed since then but I recently discovered - to my... Continue Reading →
Aloes and Stars, new Amakhala Image in the Room of Dreams @NAF2022
I'm enjoying the flexibility of a virtual exhibition space at #naf2022. It's meant that I can easily add this new image of Amakhala - taken a couple of weeks ago- to the Room of Dreams. Aloes, Winter Stars and Dawn Light, Amakhala It fits very nicely in the centre of the wall of landscapes with... Continue Reading →
Lockdown Sunbirds (and friends) in the Room of Dreams @NAF2022
There are more images of birds than anything else in my Room of Dreams 3D virtual exhibition. It's already open though Fringe Exhibitions @naf2022 don't start until June 23. Once the hard COVID lockdown started in March 2020 I was restricted to the house and garden and so I taught myself how to use the... Continue Reading →
Room of Dreams: A Quick Tour
My landscape and nature photography are at this year's National Arts Festival in an immersive 3D virtual exhibition hosted by oarbt.com. It has four walls of dreams and each one has a different theme: the Lockdown Sunbirds; the King Proteas; the Cloud Abstracts and the Lockdown Landscapes. The images were selected from the fine art... Continue Reading →
Taking Flight with @meagieswain
We’ve been planning this shoot on the beautiful hills above Featherstone Kloof for quite a while. @meagieswain told me that she has always wanted to do a tulle fabric shoot - completely wrapped in white - and I was keen to get some more images to promote our forthcoming virtual exhibition ‘Set Your Life on... Continue Reading →