Monday Musings…

Well, the day finally arrived, Desley and I (aka Pixel Sisters Studio) had our very first workshop – Floral Fantasy, as you can see very well attended. Here are just a few of the shots I managed to catch, I didn’t take that many as I was mostly busy helping everyone else. We split them…

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Regular Random – Gerbera, Five minutes with my Macro

Welcome again to another RegularRandom where we: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it have fun! tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to this post It’s been a long…

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Satisfaction

I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing one of my conceptual portraits move from my imagination to a finished image on my computer. I spent hours, days, weeks even arranging and sourcing the right model, the props, how I want it poses, lit and so one, and that all pretty much happens in my…

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In the Studio…The Secret Garden

It is actually a rather long convoluted story as to how I ended up spending a very long day, with two women I have never met, working on what turned out to be quite an extraordinary and unique shoot; but I’ll try to condense it. I was asked as a favor (friend of a friend…

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Winter Workshops #4 – Dark and Moody Fruit

By far the most popular workshop I have run this year has been Dark and Moody Fruit. Dark and Moody are so in fashion right now, but to some, it seems unobtainable. In reality, it is not as difficult as everyone thinks. The other item on the agenda and quite popular is a brief lesson in…

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Share Your World – 25th July 2017

Another week another set of questions, check out Cee’s page for more info List some of your favorites types of teas. I normally drink coffee, but if I am drinking tea, just good old fashioned black tea (well that’s what we call it in Australia), Earl Grey is nice as is English Breakfast, with lemon or…

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Tuesday’s Textures – Tarot Series update

I am sure you are all now familiar with my Tarot series and it is moving along at quite a pace, most of the Major Arcana is now done (still a few tricky ones to do), and I have the Ace, Page, Queen, and King of quite a few of the Minor Arcana. Today I…

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Regular Random – The Studio

I had such a busy weekend, I stood brooding as I was setting the Studio for a shoot, I’ll have to find five minutes for Regular Random, and then the thought struck me, my hero shot does not have to be one thing…I have the stage set for a whole studio shoot. So after I…

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Manic Mondays…

Such a busy and tiring weekend, but so much fun. Spent all day with a new Model and Makeup Artist, for my new The Secret Garden Shoot, five hours for hair and makeup, and no, none of the hair, makeup or body paint is photoshopped! Seriously cool and creepy, but more on that soon…here’s a…

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