Evening Snow

I found this little beauty in our back garden one day last week - and I just couldn't resist getting my camera out...

Fruity Reds

Top: Fruity Reds.
Bottom: Apples & Tomatoes.

Two versions of the same subject, he he!
My little bowl of fruit and veg as seen from two different perspectives. Just looking at those apples is making my mouth water! :-P

I LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!

These two pictures just about sum me up! :-P

Days of Snow

I must confess that I'm hardly a great artist - but I just love messing around with different media!
I created this one with good old-fashioned coloured pencils and paper (and more than a little help from my nieces and nephews, since they helped me to colour it in).

Although I originally created it a few months ago, I thought it would be appropriate for now, considering the Arctic weather that we're having at the moment.

As for the little ones...
well, they're just enjoying the snowball fights. ;-)

A Single Berry

It's freezing here in the UK at the minute! It snowed for most of last week - and it looks as if the bad weather is set to continue for a while yet.

Anyway, I took this one on Friday. This is a close-up of the view I get of one of our holly trees from my study window. We have two beautiful holly trees - and this is what they look like covered in snow.

I wish they had more berries on them, though. Sadly, the birds ate them all. :-(

Crystal Moon

Again, I created this one in Photoshop, with a little help from some lighting effects and an old paintbrush.

Abstraction

This is another collage that I created in Photoshop (with a little help from a paintbrush and some filters...).

The Eyes of Dreams

A Summer's Eve

Beyond the Final Frontier

Red Leaves

The fallen leaves of a poinsettia...

Still Life with Flowers

Barren

I had a little bit of fun with this photo...

and turned it into this, he he!

Barren Beauty

I can never resist the stark beauty of nature in winter...

A Stormy Flight

Top picture: A Stormy Flight.

Bottom picture: Stormy Skies.

These two photos have quite a story to tell! I took them in June last year. The bottom one (Stormy Skies) was taken just a couple of hours before a huge thunderstorm hit us here in the North East of England, causing widespread flash flooding (just ask the poor people whose gardens were flooded!).

I took the first one (A Stormy Flight) at the same time. There were no birds in the original photo, though. I added the seagull as an afterthought, using some "bird" paintbrushes that I'd created in Photoshop.