Tag: nature

More Brusho

More Brusho

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Some further experiments with brusho, I have been playing more with using it like inks and painting stems and grasses.

Watercolour Sketches

Watercolour Sketches

Reading Time: 2 minutes Typically, after 2 weeks of leave full of rain and general rubbish weather, the sun decided to shine on the last day before I go back to work. I decided to sit on the doorstep and do a bit of painting. These are all quick 

Caterpillars

Caterpillars

Reading Time: 2 minutes We attempted to grow some Kale this year. Unfortunately one day, with very little warning we noticed this! By this point it was past the point of doing anything, so I left them too it and took the photo opportunity. After this, they all departed, 

In the Woods

In the Woods

Reading Time: 3 minutes Having lived in Meanwood (for the second time, and for a few years now) the woods are a constant source of pleasure and inspiration, though I never seem to get up into them as much as I would like. These are a couple of sets 

Fine Art Monochrome – Nature Fantasies

Fine Art Monochrome – Nature Fantasies

Reading Time: 2 minutes These images came from one of my experiments – I put a roll on Ilford Pan F into a Fujica AX-1 SLR. Being a lovely fine grained slow film I thought I would play with some fine art style nature imagery. This is the result, 

Flower Studies

Flower Studies

Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the year I have been exprerimenting quite a lot with flowers. I started this last year with the Tamron Macro Lens, but since Christmas I have been doing a lot of work with the Lensbaby Composer and the Macro Magnifying lenses, inspired by the 

Bugs!

Bugs!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the last year or so I have played a lot with Macro Photography, particularly flowers, and also (because where there are flowers there are…) bugs! Getting in close with little creatures gives a really different an interesting view on the world we live in, 

Mushroom Season

Mushroom Season

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes I do think that I am a little odd. I found these mushrooms growing on the edge of campus, and of course just had to get the camera and grovel about in the wet to take photos…