Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (20)
durleybeachbum
I am a bit stumped as to what has gone wrong with sitemail. I can't access any of the folders, and I can receive a mail but not reply or compose. The only way I can send one is via a homepage. Is anyone else having that trouble?
durleybeachbum
I've just discovered that it works ok on the iPad ! So something to do with my PC ? It was all fine before the changes to the look!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. No all is fine here Andrea. I just have a problem sometimes when uploading.It happens some times that one picture uploads double. God bless.
aksirp
.. and with a bottle of Byzance - loved it in earlier times.. beautiful flowers I have no problems with the site mail..
Mark-David-Rogers
Beautiful spring flowers, a welcome site around the country to remind us summer should be along hopefully soon... some quality dry sunny days will be nice with the odd shower to keep those with gardens happy. Be ideal if any rain was reserved for the hours of night but sadly we cannot control the weather... if we could some James Bond style megalomaniac would try to harness it and extort money from every country in the world. Nice capture.
dochtersions
A superb arrangement, Andrea. I love that dark tulip on the left so much, and 'yes', I see another one in that color. What I also love is that blue vase, the shell and the perfume bottle. And, it's great to see a part of your house. May I come in, and smell?
dochtersions
Oh, btw, do you know what is wrong with receiving your mail from here, Andrea? I had yesterday and today a bit problems with my internet connection (by starting my p.c.) , but I guess it has nothing to do with Rendero.
Juliette.Gribnau
a lovely and wonderful arrangement
SunriseGirl
What a lovely composition.
MrsRatbag
You have so many flowers already! Absolutely gorgeous in that beautiful pitcher!
auntietk
I never tire of your "Flowers in the House" series. My grandmother never wanted flowers in the house. She said they lasted so much longer in the garden, it was a shame to cut them and bring them in. I always thought she was missing the point.
bmac62
My favorite season(s) of the year...when your hall and mirror bring us such delightful sights (along with your fine photography):)
Faemike55
lovely arrangement great photo
helanker
What A wonderful arrangement Andrea. I love flowers in my home :) BTW I have no troubles with my sitemail. Maybe a stupid question, but did you try to reset the pc?
jendellas
Very pretty!!
jayfar
This is a beautiful set up Andrea, lovely flowers. I have problems which stem from upgrading my PC to Windows 7 - I have to learn again where everything is and how to access it.
goodoleboy
In re your email messages, from time immemorial I have run the gamut from receiving virtually no Renderosity email, all the way to almost a full complement of uploads and comments. It borders on the maddening. I would like to blame my ISP, but it never happens with nonRenderosity messages. Say la vee. With that said, a cool inside-the-house photo of your lovely daffodils and tulips, Andrea.
three_grrr
Love inside bouquets! recently had a small one in my kitchen window. Yours are charming. someone mentioned that perhaps the problem is that everything is not updated .. perhaps your browser, or adobe, or java, or heaven knows what other important update one may have missed. Or .. it could be Rendo .. seems a lot of people run into problems when they decide inane chances are necessary.
Katraz
A lovely selection of flowers.
blondeblurr
Simply gorgeous - such a joy, to experience your Spring this way, but I like especially the darkness on the right side - as if those flowers are jumping right out of the frame ... and even better ;) - surrounded by Madame Rochas ;)) BB BTW - I couldn't view this pic, until I clicked on the little white framed box with the red cross in the centre ?
anahata.c
Yeah, with tara, I love all your "Flowers in the House" photos, postworked and non postworked. Your arrangements in hue, light and shadow, form, etc, are postwork of their own kind (pre-work, actually). And these always feel like fine studio still-lifes, with the attention to detail that painters sought for centuries. Beautiful contrast of glass vase with the vase to its right (and all the green in the former, contrasted with the delicate flower ornamentation on the latter, and of course with the whites with blue trim, etc). And you've tied them together with that beautiful blue bottle in between---a perfume, I assume. ANd you turned one of the flowers down, to look upon the bottle, and put that shell on the bottom to guide our eyes into the foreground (and make a strong contrast of light against dark). The flowers against the mirror reach out into the space...and it all simplifies in the lower half, where everything is simpler and sheerer. Another beautiful entry into this series, all thoughtful and beautiful; and they're all portraits as well...
danapommet
The shell is a wonderful touch with these gorgeous daffodils! Beautiful colors!