Cranbourne Gardens Pt 3

This week I have been sharing images taken at Australia Gardens in Cranbourne, with the Lensbaby lenses – Sweet80, Edge50 and Velvet56. Today I am sharing the Kangaroo paw. The gardens have so many varieties, mostly in mass plantings (the best way to showcase them I think), they had a new one this time a…

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Cranbourne Gardens Pt 2

The other day I shared some random pics from our day at Australia Gardens in Cranbourne on a recent trip hubby and I did. Today I want to share the everlasting daisies or paper daisies. I have always had a fascination with these flowers and capture them whenever I can. I love them on their…

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Cranbourne Gardens Pt 1

I have been spending quite a bit of time lately exploring my local gardens, I have three, in particular, I love to visit for the flora and fauna, Cranbourne Gardens or Australia Gardens is uniquely Australian Natives, birds, flowers, trees and animals. It’s free to enter, which makes it a great cheap day out. The…

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Smiths Gully – Summer day trips

I had a rare day off (we came out of lockdown at the start of November and I really didn’t stop), and we had good weather. A minor miracle in itself the weather has been very weird of late. Anyway, Hubby and decided to go for a drive, just to recharge our batteries. I took…

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Cloudehill Gardens with Velvet 56

I recently went back to Cloudehill Gardens (yes again) this time armed again with my Lensbaby Velvet 56 AND my Sweet 80. I had two cameras so just jumped between the two, I will share the Velvet 56 images and then come back with another post of the Sweet 80 ones. I met up with…

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Spring Outings – Cloudehill Gardens

I have been going to Cloudehill gardens for many years now, it’s only about 15-20 minutes down the road, I visit as often as I can. I have missed it terribly during the last lockdown and missed many Spring flowers, but it was so nice to be able to visit with my new Lensbaby Velvet56…

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Exploring my backyard with a Lensbaby Sweet 80

After sitting on the fence for a number of years, I finally bought myself two Lensbaby lenses. The first to arrive and I managed to play with was the Sweet 80. I must confess to their being a bit of a learning curve here. manual focus and aperture, also I could not get as close…

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Wilson Gardens with a Lens baby Velvet 56

I recently bought myself some new lenses and after sitting on the fence for a long time, I bought the Lens baby Velvet 56, I also got a Composer ii and Sweet 80. I have also had the Omni Creative filters in the past as well. The Velvet 56 is my latest and I instantly…

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Living & Learning – Lensbaby Sweet 50

As most of you know I love to play with new tech, something that has been around for a few now and has had me sitting on the fence is the Lensbaby system. These are a unique set of optics for many different brans of camera. They are manual focus and by all accounts difficult…

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