Fri, 27 January 2012 this evening
Evenings like this make up for the remorseless grey days of winter.
Sat, 05 November 2011 old magic persists
Tree, water and moon at dusk.
It’s still beautiful, despite the rows of houses stacked upon each other.
Even in the urban environment the old magic persists.
Tue, 01 November 2011 intimacy
Winter is upon us, but here is an image of a golden autumn evening in one of my favourite places to walk the dog: Coole Park.
Fri, 09 September 2011 Dessicated heart
A drop of love would make it beat again.
Fri, 18 March 2011 shake up the sky
I always say trees and sky belong together.
I snapped this a few days ago, and I love how the cloud formations seem like cartoon movement ripples or sound lines radiating from the tree.
As if it is hollering out: Wake up! Spring has returned!
Thu, 18 November 2010 going monochrome
I’ve been experimenting with changing some of my recent photographs of trees to black and white, and taking a slightly arty style. In some of them I’m using sepia tones. I start with the base image, go with my instinct about which filter works best and start building layers of effects.
Of all the creative [...]
Sat, 09 October 2010 two nobles
There are a lot of Holly trees my local woods. Not that you’d notice during the summer, when the other trees flounce about in their finery. Lately, I’ve noticed Holly’s re-emergence as one of the dominant personalities of the woodlands as we spin further into autumn.
The above photograph is of a Holly tree growing [...]
