Textured Tuesday – April 2024

Tuesday.

I’ve been playing around with cyanotypes for the last few weeks, that is on the days it hasn’t rained. We seem to be having more wet days than dry at present and it has been going on for months. Anyway, I’ve been having fun with wet cyanotypes where you have no idea of the outcome, and seeing how much stuff (read here leaves and feathers) I can put on one sheet of paper before it becomes too chaotic for my sensibilities. I’ll leave you to judge that for yourselves, I know what I like and don’t like now, so it was a worthwhile few days of playing.

Three A5 cyanotypes propped up to peruse.

A couple of A4 cyanotypes using the same leaves.

Textured Tuesday – February 2024

Tuesday.

I enjoy making double exposures in-camera with my Canon R5. I have a choice of 4 different ways to combine images actually in the camera – light, dark, average and additive. Each mode gives different looks to the final combined image and it is very different and more random than overlaying or compositing images in Photoshop. I made these at Cahills Crossing in Kakadu NP and liked the shadow effect of the first image behind the second.

Leaves – Double exposure in-camera.

Leaves – Double exposure in-camera.

The Big & The Small – Lael Forest.

Monday.

Christmas Day.

A Happy and Healthy Festive Season to everyone.

More of the Lael Forest near Ullapool. There was plenty to observe in this small area of forest from the mosses and new growth on the forest floor to the towering pines high above.

Straight trunks of a grove of pines.

Mosses and the smallest beginnings of new pine trees.

Across the road from the Arboretum this large tree was in autumn colour.

The Lael Forest.

Sunday.

The Lael Forest is an Arboretum near Ullapool. It is fenced to keep the deer out, red deer the imported kind, have no predators and so have become a problem for getting trees to grow. They love to nibble the tender young tips of new growth which kills the trees before they get a chance to grow and the only way to re-wild the land is to fence the deer out. This is a lovely small Arboretum with many varieties of trees both native and imported.

Walking paths and golden trees.

Lime green turning golden.

Among the first golden trees we saw near Ullapool.

And A Few More Multiple Exposures.

Wednesday.

I just had to add some more of the multiple exposures in-camera that I made at Bonny Hills. The red leaves made for dramatic looks and by twisting the camera slightly between each shot in the green image I used multiple exposures in-camera to create a swirling look.

Multiple exposures in-camera as I twisted the camera slightly between each shot.

And another multiple exposure in-camera of the red large leafed plant.’

And It Was Wet . . . .

Wednesday.

Whether it was raining or not we still went outside and made photographs. The rain gave us different looking images to those taken when the sun came out or even just when it stopped raining. A rare, for this week anyway, ray of sunlight made the fern frond stand out from the dark background deck railing and foliage.

Capturing a raindrop while it was still raining.

The sun shone briefly to illuminate this fern frond.

Textured Tuesday – April 2023

Tuesday.

This past week I’ve had a lovely time playing with Cyanotypes (sun printing). I’m not concerned about the result so I can experiment and play and think ‘what if’ which has lead to some happy results and some I wouldn’t show anyone as well 🙂 These two below were from the Eco Printing workshop I did in February and didn’t particularly like the result, so by over printing with cyanotype I had nothing to loose. I am very happy with both results and could never have achieved the same effect with either of the methods alone.

Cyanotype feathers on eco dyed paper.

Cyanotype over eco dyed paper.

Swamp Banksia .

Monday.

The Swamp Banksia, Banksia robur, is an Australian native plant. We have many varieties of banksias that grow in all sorts of climates and soil types. The Swamp Banksia is hardy, grows in all soil types, can withstand drought, can take wet feet (roots) and its leaves can grow up to 30cm in length. It also has a lovely flower spike that attracts birds. Nothing to detract from this plant as far as I can see.

The beautiful flower spike of the Swamp Banksia.

New leaves just opening.

A beautiful curve showing the serrations along the leaf.

Autumn Leaves.

Sunday.

Wherever I looked the Autumn leaves caught my eye. Maybe it’s because where I live we don’t get many trees changing colour that I find it so different. Even the caterpillar chewed leaves looked amazing to me!

A random fall of Autumn leaves on the ground in Bombala.

Even caterpillar chewed leaves look good in the right light of Autumn.

Autumn Colour – Bombala

Tuesday.

Autumn leaves in Bombala. I’ll get back to Wilson’s Prom as soon as I can access my images again. I’m travelling and only have my recent images available.

Bombala is a small country town in the high country of NSW. The Bombala River is know for platypus in it’s mountain waters but now I know the autumn colour is quite impressive too. A lovely unspoilt place to spend a day or two.

Looking up through the bare branches to the last yellow leaves.

Orange leaves on the still changing trees beside the Bombala River.