Smite Hotel Marquee, Worcs.

Franco Fontana produces images similar to this. Bags of saturated primary colours. Big areas of a single colour.

Cecil Beaton Exhibition at Wilton House

Cecil Beaton 1904 – 1980 – Photographer, designer, socialite and writer

Cecil Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits, working for Vanity Fair and Vogue in addition to photographing Hollywood celebrities, the Royal Family for official publications and the Bright Young People of the twenties and thirties.

This new exhibition of photographs, celebrates Beaton’s artistic genius and lifelong association with Wilton

The photos are pasted to the wall and the frames painted around them. 

A brilliant way of showing. No reflections from glass.

Click on any image to enlarge.

Another Fractal image using ChaosPro 4. 

This tome experimenting with the 3D transform.
Click on the image to see it properly.

A fractal image generated by using a program called ChaosPro 4.0

Old Stones

Stonehenge in the Round

From the Uffington White Horse. This horse can do magical things.

Text on an image where the image is weakened to allow the text to show better.
Spot the spelling mistake.

Towed Tree

Towed Tree
This was from an idea seen on the internet.
I just happened to have some flying bird pictures
and I found I had the right sort of tree for this purpose.

Grassmere Twist

This Grasmere in the Lake District.  The top version is derived from the one at the bottom using Flexify 2 Rind1 filter. The original photo was made from two pictures blended. One was infra red and the other a normal coloured photo.
Click on these small images to see them full size.

Lillipution Photos

We have recently been showing our U3A members how to make a photo look like a model. Here are a couple of examples of mine.

St Pancras Station Passengers

Staithes, Yorkshire

Some of my photos taken last autumn on the Goth Weekend. It was a fabulous day.

Meal Out

We had a meal out with our wee gang. Here I illustrate the first course viz goats cheese on ciabatta dealt with in 2 ways. The jig saw puzzle version is specially for Joan.

Here is the gang ready to order and below that two interpretations of this picture.


Below this I have added a small video of the chattering classes.

Slate Fantasies

These photos were taken in the Cwm Orthin [web site here] near to Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The images have been modified using Photoshop using Selective Colour and some Curves Adjustment Layers

The inside wall of the barracks













Barracks with a fallen wall

















Another fallen slate wall now horizontal
Another web site with pictures can be found here