Garden Sculpture.

I took this photograph at the Springfields Show gardens in Spalding, it's a wonderful sculpture.

My question today is does anyone know the sculptor. I would love to show them some credit on here for such wonderful work.

If you know, let me know via the comments section, thanks.

Photoshop experimenting.

Hi, I've been trying a bit of editing in Photoshop and wondered what people's thoughts were?

The first is obviously a WWII Spitfire flying away from the explosions on the runway.

This second one is the Vulcan bomber.

I'm not sure which looks better or indeed if either of them look any good?

Please let me know what your thoughts are on them via the comments section, thanks.

Pink Marigolds

Hi all, thought I'd return again to my blog and see if I can post some more.

These flowers were taken at Springfields in Spalding Lincolnshire.

I just loved the vibrancy of their colors,

I hope you do too.

Please feel free to leave your comments on these below.

Also if there is a particular type of photography or subject matter you want me to try, let me know via the comments.

Look What I Saw! Header Challenge.

Well I'm back from the cyber wilderness just about, so I'm able to take part again in this weeks header challenge that has been set this week by Tom-fishing guy. He's chosen "Look what I saw". Now that can be interpreted pretty much any way you want it and I'm sure when you visit the other headbangers' blogs, you will see that for yourself. For me the thing that I, "Saw" and thought worthy of taking a photo of, was some Christmas cards.

 The Christmas card on the right I have used as my header this week as I think its such a simple yet vibrant design that it really makes the banner stand out. What do you think?

Just to wet your appetite!

I'm still sorting through the myriad of photos I've taken on the trip so here's just a teaser to wet your appetites for what's to come. This was just one of the many desserts on offer on-board P&O's Azura. Yum yum!

Macro blue water spirals.

Water spinning top

Macro bird seed

Bird Seed

Sharp pencil

Sharpening Pencil

Beware the Dinosaur

Chiming in colour

Look out something is Falling!

It has been Sandy’s turn to choose this weeks theme for our header challenge competition. So what has she chosen you ask? Well this week you need your hard hat on because she has chosen “falling” as our theme.

I suppose unless the object is lighter than air it will fall  so what should I bring you photographs of?

Well here’s some brave brave men of the RAF doing a parachute display or, controlled descent, which is in essence, falling through the air attached to a bit of fabric. These men and women however do their falling with a great deal of panache and expertise.

Many people every year can be found in the town square of Pisa in Italy stretching out their arms to stop the bell tower from falling down. The Leaning tower of Pisa as you can see from the photo does lean a considerable amount. They do assure us that it isn’t going to fall down any time soon though, so maybe we don’t need to hold it up.

I said earlier unless the object is lighter than air then it will fall. Well I’ve found something that falls even though it has no weight at all. See, the shadow is falling across the grass!

For my header this week I took my inspiration from the weather. We have had a lot of rain falling in recent weeks and I know some of the other headbangers certainly have, so I decided to re-visit macro water droplet shots. This time I used an all black water tray and only the on camera flash for light source.

So there you have it falling rain drops (artificially created). The best kind because its nice and sunny outside as I write this.

You can see what the others have decided to create for their headers by following their links at the top of my right hand menu bar.

Hazelnuts

Literature

It was my turn to choose the theme for this weeks header challenge and so I thought through lots of ideas, my family gave me lots of ideas and then at the last minute, I went with “Literature”. No real thought as to what I was going to do for it, it just popped into my head as a theme. So this weeks theme, is “Literature”. I also added the little caveat that there was to be no bookcase photos for it, instead everyone had to be more creative when thinking about their headers. So where did that leave me? I think the inspiration for the theme must have come from one book by Rudyard Kipling, “Jungle Book”. It has great characters in it such as Hathi, an old Indian bull elephant, here perhaps is one of his sons…

There’s also Akela the wolf pack leader…

and Shere Khan the Bengal Tiger…

and Jacala the crocodile…

and many others within the pages of this wonderful piece of children's literature if you've only ever seen the film Jungle Book you don't know what you are missing there is so much more in the book…

My header therefore has been created with character's from the story and I’ve used classical works of literature to spell out the title Jungle Book.

Remember to call in at the other headbangers blogs to see what literary masterpieces they have concocted for their headers this week, just follow their links at the top of my right hand menu bar.

 

Beans

I decided to have a play with a little home made macro studio set-up to see what the results would be. These are some beans we are growing in the garden, for a comparison the ones I used are about the size of a fat grain of rice. I was amazed at the vibrant colours that came out of the pod.

Follow the path for the greeting!

Letter Art

It’s Brenda’s Photo challenge time again and this time she has challenged us to look for letters in everyday objects.

So I’ve compiled a little selection for you, lets see how many of you can read them.

How many of you managed it? Can you tell me all the different items I have used to get the letters?

Remember to drop in at the other bloggers taking up the Brenda Photo challenge just follow the highlighted link.

Black & White

Tom-fishing guy has drained the colour out of this weeks header challenge and has chosen “Black and White” as his theme.

He did give us lots of options saying it could be a black and white image or a colour photo of a black and white subject.

Well Tom, I hope you don’t mind but you have given me a good excuse to divulge myself in another of my hobbies, art.

Christine, over at Christine’s Arts revitalised my love of drawing a few months ago and I’ve been meaning to post a couple of my efforts ever since.

 

This one is just a quick sketch I did trying to get the form and perspective of the face correct. I’ll let you decide how far out I am.

The next one is still quite rough, this time the subject is of a young child.

Finally I moved onto animals and tried my hand first at a dogs leg…

finishing off with the animal portrait in the centre of my header…

I hope you’ve liked my take on black and white this week. It’s maybe been a little unconventional, but then it’s good to be different every now and again.

If you want to see what the other headbangers have thought up for the theme Black and White, then follow their links at the top of my right hand menu bar.

Remember you can see all my past headers by clicking on the Header Challenge 2011 or Header Challenge links at the top menu bar of my blog.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you tomorrow.