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Category Archives: flower photography

Lavender, poppies and art

I’ve been soo busy lately that I’ve been neglecting my personal photography so, as it’s my birthday today I had a day off from everything.  (Don’t worry – I’ll be back on the case tomorrow.)  My husband treated me to a tour of the Cotswolds, just the two of us, lazing around, enjoying the scenery,…

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Advent calendar – Day 19 Summer pink

Time for some vibrant colour again I think.    I love the way the reddy pink really “pops” against the blue-green of the pond in the background (if you’re interested in colour theory, it’s because they’re nearly opposite one another on the colour wheel).  I find it amazing how our perception of a colour changes depending…

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Advent calendar – Day 18 Cotton

I changed my mind about day 18′s photograph as I took loads of new images in the snow today.  I love snow – it changes the quality of the light, hides imperfections and transforms the landscape into something clean and new.  So even though it meant I had a completely different day to the one…

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Advent calendar – Day 17 May bokeh

According to Wikipedia, bokeh is “is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.  The term is Japanese for “blurred” apparently.  As far as I’m concerned it’s a way of adding some interest to the background while emphasising…

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