FLOWERS

January Flowers Update

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We have started the year off with a great showing of new flowers from our friends Chris and the ladies at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. A lot of white going on this month and viewers may think my eye sight has completely gone when they see blurred pictures. But this is not the case.

I have simply smeared a UV filter on the front of the lens with Vaseline to give it that dreamy effect. Picasso had his 'Blue Period,' so I can have my 'Blurred Period.'

Thanks again then to Chris and the ladies at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours and a mention also to my wife Amy for all her help.

See you all next month.

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December Flower Updates

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Why not finish the year on a high with some pictures of flowers, not quite seasonal enough for some, but I am immensely happy with them. Its been a great year for flower photographing with help of course from Chris and the ladies at Flowers To Yours and the Brambles Florist. If you haven't seen the highlights sideshow above please do so. You will not be disappointed. So a big thanks to all at Brambles and a special thanks also to my wife Amy who helps me with everything these days.

Seasons greetings and see you all again in 2023 x


November Flowers Update

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I am really pleased with this months flower gallery, the Brambles Florist staff came up with an even greater selection of flowers this month. A dried thorn plant that photographed wonderfully and a deep red gerbera. Now I know I have done gerberas before on many occasions but this was a double gerbera and a beautiful deep red. Amy placed it against a deep green background and it worked out with the opposite colour theory. Have a look at this months selection and see. So thanks as always to Chris at Flowers To Yours and his staff at the Brambles Florist for their help. Not forgetting a mention to Amy for all of her assistance.

See you all next month for a festive season offering. X

October Flower Updates

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Now that the weather has cooled down a bit its far easier to work in the home studio without poring with sweat all day long and generally making life uncomfortable. So I went to the Brambles Florist this last Friday to get some flowers for inspiration and capture and as always they did not let me down. So a warm thanks to Chris and the ladies at the Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours for providing me with an interesting selection. A thank you also to Amy for her help on the day of shooting.

See you all next month x


September Flower Updates

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We have a bumper month of flowers this month as along with the regular fresh bunch of lovely flora from the Brambles Florist. We also have some others that I photographed from months before and saved as extras that I am now cashing in. As always it was great to see my friend Chris at the shop and catch up with him, as well as get something new to shoot. Check out the Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours online for a great selection of product that is environmentally friendly and pure quality. So thank you to Chris and staff and Amy for helping me on the day.


August Flower Updates

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We have a good mixture of flowers on offer this month, including a shabby chic gerbera from the Brambles Florist. A flower from Tyler Dyce for Amy's birthday I could not pass on photographing and even a plastic one for good measures. See if you can spot it?

As always our biggest thanks go out to our friends at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. Chris, Gail and Nina who never cease to come up with new flowers at there best. Thanks to then and to Amy for her help.

That is it for this month, be sure to come back again in September x

July Flower Updates

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We got some great images of the flowers this month, with one flower that looks more like it came out of a coral reef than anything that grows in a garden. Chris at the florist did tell me what it was called, but I sadly I cannot recall the name. In fact I have photographed it separately from various angles, because I can see it coming in use with a Digital Art picture I have in mind. So thanks then as always to Chris and Gail at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours for their great help and suggestions. Thanks also to Amy for helping me take the pictures.

That's it for this month, be sure to come back in late august for a new crop of floral pics.

Flowers – 'The Garden' Update. - Dad's Garden 2022

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Flowers – 'The Garden' Update. Mike & Val Curtis Garden

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While having a break away I was pleased to be invited (well more I asked than invited!) to visit and photograph the garden of one of my fathers friends Mike and Val Curtis. Wow what a great little garden they have, so full of colour and life. The variety of plants was again different from the ones found in my father’s garden, so made an interesting contrast. Thanks then to Mike and Val for hosting Amy, Dad and While we took the pictures.

June Flower Updates

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I seriously screwed up this month … Instead of bringing you the Squared Black and White pictures, all I can offer is an apology. I simply forgot to take them. By the time I had realised my error the flowers had gone over so it was too late, Still we did manage to photograph some great flowers from our friends Chris Gail and Nina at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. So a very warm thanks to them for their help. You may note that the colour images are a bit on the blurred side.? This is not down to my poor eyesight but rather the Lensbay Velvet 85 I have been using and fallen in love with. It gives them a very dreamy, etherial look which I do like to experiment with.

So that's it for this month, please come back next month for more.

And so before I forget, thank you to Amy for all her help with the flowers, shoots and lovely hand made dress..

May Flowers Update

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I got to try out my new Lensbaby Velvet 80 lens on the colour versions of this months flower pictures. I am quite pleased with the results. It gives some of the pictures a very dreamy look to them and fresh from the camera, so very little editing. Also this month Amy purchased some plastic flowers from some charity shops in town. I thought the plastic fantastic flowers would look horrendous, but they too look great. See if you can spot them?

Thanks as always to my friends at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours to Chris, Gail and Nina. As well as a thank you to Amy for all her help,

We will be back next month with some new pictures for 'The Garden' section on the website, so come back for them

Bye x

April Flower Updates

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This month we have a few extras to show, along with the usual excellent selection I get from Brambles Florist. We also have an Amaryllis flower my parents gave me for this last Christmas and a twig full of blossom Amy picked out of the roadside. I have know idea what it is, but it photographs nicely. Thanks as always to my friends at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours, Chris, Gail and Nina for there great help in bringing these images to you. Thanks also to Amy for her help.

Flowers – 'The Garden' Update

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On the visit to Newstead Abby, as well as grabbing the landscape pictures, there were a few flowers out that had not gone over. Only a few … I think it might be worth another visit in the Summer months. Anyway, here they are.

March Flower Updates

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There is a very pinkish feel to the flower pictures this month. I did not notice it at the time I went to Brambles Florist to get them, and I am certainly not complaining … It just makes a bit of a theme for this months images. It was the Thursday before Mothers Day that I dropped in to make a selection, so the shop was crazily busy that day. Still thanks to Nina and Wendy at the shop for helping me and of course Chris who was out delivering. Check out the two websites that accompany this amazing florist for all your flower needs. Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours – worth a look.

Love and kisses also to Amy for her help.

That's it for this month, see you all at the end of April

New 'Squared B/W' Gallery in Flowers Art

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I got all inspired by some pictures I found on Instagram where the photographer had made every image squared and black and white. They were either done using a medium format camera or squared in Photoshop. Either way they looked great and I wanted to do some of my own.

I shall let you into a secret …. some of the pictures here are of fake flowers, so can you guess which ones? The plastic fantastic were from my Mothers front room and taken at the New Year time.

I do hope you like the concept and enjoy the random highlights.

February Flower Updates

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So as well as the new 'Squared B/W/ ' gallery above we also have the regular flower pictures fresh from the shop. Remember those storms we had a few weeks ago, well they clashed with me going to The Brambles Florist and I was worried that the flowers would not stand the short journey to the taxi? Luckily I got around this problem by going a few days later, when it was still blowy but manageable. So here is this February offerings thanks in no small way to our friends Chris and Wendy at Flowers To Yours and Brambles Florist,

See you next month.

January Flower Updates

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It is good to be back photographing flowers again after the Christmas break. It seems like an age since I took up the camera for these snaps. As always I would like to thank my good friends at Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours, Chris and Wendy for all their help in choosing this months selection. Also a shout out to Amy for all her help in setting our home studio up.

See you next month