23.7.2016

I did this as part of a course not my usual work. It started life as a frozen pond in Germany when
the temperature was around - 15 deg ! I wasn't sure how I would use it but I liked the scene.

So I embarked on a project with a mystical theme and came up with this nearly thirty layers later !

  

Hi Another beach  picture while walking the dog. It was a wonderful blustery day  at Long Bay beach as high tide swept angrily over the  smooth sand, sweeping up clusters of flotsam and jetsam in it's wake.
This gregarious  dog stood up on it's hind legs jumping over the waves as they came towards him.

  

8.07.2016

There was quite a storm last night heavy rain, blustery wind and loud thunder.
Wonderful fog this morning as I made my way down to Long Bay beach with the dog in tow.
So much drift wood spread around the beach and crashing waves at high tide leaving little room to walk, or to photograph.

4.07.2016

A few weeks ago I attended a photo shoot with some members of my photo group. We shot
pictures from scenes of a silent movie shoot . It was great fun and now I am enjoying all the post processing.
Here's one of the scenes   The Gamblers

It's not about the cards you've been dealt, it's how you play your hand

1.7 2016

Yes, it's been a long time since the last post but hopefully I can now get into a regular pattern of sharing some of my work.
These last few weeks I have been playing with some of the wonderful apps I have discovered on the iPad and have been incorporating them into my workflow. Great fun.

Here is one of my latest.


"Someday I'll wake up and be somewhere else"

Seems a while since my last post
I have spent so many hours categorizing all my photographs onto
one hard drive and then getting them onto a NAS box the whole process
has taken me about three weeks but now I can find things almost at a
glance ! So we are off and running again till the NAS box fills up!
Which may not be too long.

                                   
                                            Wise crack

                                                     The industrial spy

                                                             Underneath the lamplight


There have been some wonderful shoots with Focus a Meet Up group
mainly shooting steam punk characters who are great fun to be around,
 such fantastic obliging models with creative costumes.

With the closure of the Old Street in Auckland's War Memorial Museum
Focus made great use of it for a few hours. Take a look at some of my shots
I took and fooled around with.

South Island

This last week I visited relations in Blenheim in the north part of the South Island.
A couple of mornings the temperature reached minus 4deg that's COLD.
We took a walk in the park while waiting for the Art Gallery to open. The winter sun was low in the sky.

This was the original shot.

 To give a little life to the picture I added a shot of birds in flight which gave the picture warmth.

I played around trying to give the picture a dimensional feel.

 

A few more layers later with tones and lines which made distinct divisions.

Roll on summer.