Various posts featuring an eclectic collection of images.
“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.” ― Julia Child Butternut is one of my favourite vegetables, besides tasting divine, the orange colour is just so visually pleasing. With this recipe, roasting the butternut makes all the difference to the flavour. “The lore has not died… Continue reading FRENCH BUTTERNUT SOUP
“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A bird. I wish I was a bird. I could be free. If I… Continue reading FEELING BLUE
“Any real, beautiful thing in this world shouldn't be tamed or claimed or broken. It should be allowed to be, worked with, not against, appreciated." ― Carly Kade, In The Reins I recently visited a farm in order to plan a future photoshoot with 6 very special horses, I needed to take a… Continue reading EARNING TRUST
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ― Julia Child I absolutely love eating tasty food. Cooking?...ummm not so much, seems like a lot of hard work and preparation for a few minutes of enjoyment. What to do? What to do? In order to address the problem, Mr T and I are on a quest to find simple delicious recipes that are… Continue reading CLASSIC FRENCH POTATO AND LEEK SOUP
“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.” ― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things - Fennel's Journal - No. 8 I recently did a photo shoot of the charming Happy Ours self catering holiday home, in Sedgefield. Marius and Ida Vosloo have lovingly renovated this cute little house with our beautiful Sedgefield… Continue reading HAPPY OURS HOLIDAY HOME – Interiors photoshoot
Ask any photographer what kind of editing they do on their images and you'll get a variety of answers. Some like to do tons of editing while others prefer a more natural look. I recently received the Strike-a-Pose Portrait editing workflow, from Sleek Lens in exchange for a review of their product. I chose one… Continue reading EDITING PRESETS. Yes, no, maybe?
The woman wakes suddenly in the early hours of Sunday morning, a line of poetry running through her mind. She’d heard it clearly, just as if someone had leaned in close and whispered softly in her ear, “don't let grief then stay your hand.” Silence follows, broken only by the gentle breathing of the big… Continue reading NO LONGER AT MY SIDE BUT FOREVER IN MY HEART
I always have mixed feelings when one of my Photography Classes comes to an end, a little sad that I won't be connecting with my students any longer or seeing how their photography improves with each passing week but thrilled they're empowered with a new skill, have more confidence in their photography and excited about… Continue reading My 3 little stars 2017
This blog post is primarily for my fabulous photography students who are finishing up their digital photography course with me and their final module is about learning to see and work with light. The quality, quantity, direction, intensity and colour of light helps to dictate the mood of an image; all these photographs were taken… Continue reading Same photographer, same camera, DIFFERENT light
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