Tag: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.-5.6 IS II
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Flower of the Day – 1st August
Today’s flower of the day which is hosted by Cee Neuner is one of the first photographs we ever took as amateur photographers, way back in 2012. I can’t believe that it has been over 6 years since that photograph was taken… and we still love our hobby. Have a good day everyone…
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Silence WordPress Photo Challenge
There is nothing like snow… and here in the South East of England we occasionally see the odd flurry but we never have what I would call real snowfall. Snowfall where places are blanketed from edge to edge with deep, white and crisp snow. The theme for this week’s challenge is Silence. And silence to […]
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Growth WordPress Photo Challenge
Well last year just seemed to fly by… and our photography took a back seat… now we are in 2018 and we are determined to get our photography back on track. So for me with the WordPress Photo Challenge the topic of Growth has two meanings for me.
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Satisfaction WordPress Photo Challenge
Satisfaction So what is satisfaction? For me it is when I accomplish something that I only dreamed of. Like taking a photograph and transforming it into something else. My original image was this deep cerise flower. Even though I liked the original image I wanted to create something different and the colour I had in […]
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Weekly Photo Challenge Surprise
Another week and another challenge and this week’s photo challenge set by WordPress is called Surprise. Of course there was nothing like a surprise cow who wanted to make friends and taste my lens. Within the grounds of Hole Park near Rolvenden was a field with a herd of cows in it.
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Pom Pom Dahlia from Lullingstone – Oil Paint Effect
To create the above photograph, I started out in Lightroom. To the dahlia I cropped the image and then did a few minor edits to the image. Over-processing the image at this point was one thing I didn’t want to do, as I knew I would be giving it an Oil Paint Effect in […]
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The Iron Gate at Eltham Court Palace
As I mentioned way back… I have had 3 blog posts produced on the Topaz Labs Blog.. I have felt very humbled in being asked, by Jodi Robbins, to write articles for them. Anyway.. the post I wrote was about adding Paint Effect to Photos and I used a photograph of a gate that was taken at Eltham […]
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Santa was sure good
Well Christmas is over and only the New Year celebrations left to get through before I start getting back to my photography… And boy was Santa a good Santa this year… I did get my soft-box and a new 24mm Pancake Lens and an extension tube for my camera… plus Topaz Impression plug-in. As […]
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The great debate… Photograph or Digital Art?
Oh yes, the great debate of whether an image is a photograph or digital art erupted in our house last night.. Well it started by me reading a blog post by Glen Hannah about the Toolwiz Pic App and me downloading it and trying it on some of our photographs. After I processed a couple […]
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The power of texture
It was cold, it was murky and the sky was absolutely dreadful.. it was dismal and there wasn’t any clouds that gave drama to the sky… but even with the sky as dismal as it was.. I still liked the photo… so what do I do with it? Of course, at a texture and use […]
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Looking Through a Window
I just can’t believe it has been a whole week since Cee’s last black and white photo challenge.. my god where does the time go? Anyway, Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Looking Through a Window is the theme for this week’s challenge. For this challenge I decided to do two photographs.. the photograph above is looking through a […]
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