Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
Something that seems to pop up from time to time in my Light Painting and still life photos is my vintage green vase and dried hydrangea and my Kodak Box Brownie, I adore them both; the colours, the textures so why not put both in the same image? I must admit my poor hydrangea has…
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If you have been following me for a while, I am sure you will have seen my giant King White Protea before, well, it is in bloom again – how divine. The blooms on this plant when fully open are about dinner plate size, and a creamy white, I have also seen a pink version,…
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I normally associate Spring with tulips, and it is possible that these are being brought in from the Northern Hemisphere, but here in Australia it is late Autumn, almost Winter. In fact, Winter is only a few weeks off 😦 I have been seeing lots of tulips in shops this last few weeks, I spotted…
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My Daughter bought big bunches of flowers for me for Mother’s day and I have been trying to capture as many images as I can, It was morning and the sun was very bright through the window, so I had the blinds drawn shut, there was a tiny slither of light escaping via the side,…
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I bought my Mum some tulips for Mother’s Day recently and I had to have a mini session with the camera, of course, I then took it a step further and felt I needed to play with some textures and a painterly effect…so, so pretty. ~ Julz, xo P.S. I will feature the actual flowers…
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Apologies for being a bit late and being a bit A.W.O.L this week, sure posts are still going up, but I have not really had much of a chance to read everyone else’s – sorry it’s been a bit of a busy week. Started some more in-depth Marketing training with a new Guru this week,…
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Today is Mother’s Day in this part of the world, I know some regions have it on different days, so for all the Mum’s out there, of EVERY type, even Furbabies and Angel babies, I wish you all a wonderful Mother’s Day. Here are some gorgeous pink Chrysanthemums (or Mums) that I spent five minutes…
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Last week we visited Cloudehill Gardens, the last hoorah before Winter comes and steals all our lovely flowers, this week…we decided as it was still such lovely weather to visit it Sister Gardens in Dromana – Heronswood…we have our yearly pass, so why not use it. We ended up having a lovely lunch in Dromana…
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I have been back in the studio, experimenting and playing with Light Painting, I decided to try some ‘floating’ fruit and flowers, the magnolia branch is suspended from a stand off to the side, giving the illusion of it floating in mid-air, or hovering above the box. Have a wonderful week… ~ Julz, xo
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On a recent outing to Cloudehill gardens, I was completely captivated by this flower, I could not find a tag in the flower bed and sadly a Google image search said it was either a Blackeyed Susan or an African Daisy; somehow I do not think either is correct…hopefully someone within my friends will know?…
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