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Lemon preserve jars
Our supermarket had a stock of large, knobbly photogenic Lemons, which inspired me to use a few in a new still life. I have no fancy lighting, I just use daylight from a side window with the...
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Books
In recent times I’ve been going through a slow phase, photography wise, it being winter here in New Zealand is probably something to do with it. Anyway I was getting sick of going through my archives...
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Jug and Bowl
I’ve always been fascinated by large austerely decrepit houses,hankering back to my student house-rental days in Yorkshire. Later in London, after seeing a big Gwen John retrospective exhibition, I...
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Artichokes
I dont think I ate an artichoke until I was a student? After finishing a water-colour still-life of them, as it would have been a crime to throw them out. I’m not saying we lived on just potatoes and...
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Artichokes
After creating and blogging the original image and recipe several weeks ago, we teamed up with the famous US Artist and print technique innovator, Bonny Pierce Lhotka to host a small taster pack of...
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Apples
I love taking photos of fruit and it doesn’t worry me if they’re a bit past their prime, I think all the wrinkles and spots add to the interest. These scruffy little specimens came from a tree...
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Still life Photography Pears
Here is my contribution for the texture chapter in Kevin Best’s wonderful new Still Life Photography ebook. Paul and I were given a selection of photos to choose from to texture and naturally I...
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White rose
Winter is starting to show itself here in southern New Zealand so to get my flower fix I had a trawl of my archives and found this rose which cried out for the additon of some texture. It’s a lovely...
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Paint it Black!
mouse-over for before view. My first apartment in London after moving south with a college friend after graduating in the 1980’s was in the Hasidic north London Jewish area of Stamford Hill. Our...
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Pretty
mouse-over for before view. It’s been a while since we’ve had some floral prettiness here on the blog! This was taken in our New Zealand spring a few months back. The flowers grow over the fence just...
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