Macro Photography

I always like photographing closeup.  Here are a few photos of mainly native Australian flowers I have taken when using film and then scanning.    I still have a wonderful Minolta 100mm macro lens that I loved but I can no longer use it with digital.  As I find the weight of SLR and lenses more than I can easily carry as I'm getting older, I am only using compact cameras and having more trouble getting the really close images that I want. But I will persevere as I know that depth of field with a compact small sensor is actually better than with SLRs.



These 2 photos are of Correa Manii, one of my favourites.

Banksia

Callistemon

To learn more about digital macro I did a one day course recently and photographed weeds closeup along an old river bed - amazing how beautiful the rejects of plants can be!

Stained glass picture and National Museum painting

I am soon taking part in an exhibition of art inspired by last year's trip to the Greek islands of Leros, Patmos and Lipsos.  Several gouache paintings from this were placed on this blog last year, but I decided to do one in glass.  The theme is houses in Lipsos.  The picture is meant to be hung in a window.  I've added two photos of this glass piece - one taken on a light table and one hanging on my deck.  The latter of course shows the trees coming through the largely transparent glass.  I love working in glass, but this was quite a hard project since there were so many small pieces of glass to handle.  All were wrapped in copper foil and soldered in the Tiffany style.



 





This acrylic painting was another one done in the style of Jeffrey Smart.  Although taken from a photograph of mine of part of the National Museum in Canberra, I have changed some aspects to make it more surreal.

Top 50 Tapestry Blogs

I've recently been notified that my blog has  been added to "Sewn Together by a Thread: Top 50 Tapestry Blogs".  I am really pleased by this, especially as I am not doing as much tapestry this year and therefore don't have much to display.   For those interested in looking up these blogs the link is http://www.liberalartsdegree.com/sewn-together-by-a-thread-top-50-tapestry-blogs/  Many of them are excellent.