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!
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!
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 (18)
Cyve
Beautiful flowers !
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Excellent. Love that skull, I would like to get to that with off camera flashes and some dark backgrounds.
Faemike55
Fabulous décor
Juliette.Gribnau
lovely flowers; one needs that with this rainy weather
giulband
Very good shot!
Mark-David-Rogers
Another lovely arrangement of flowers captured superbly, it's like bringing a little piece of the garden indoors, it must be difficult to decide which flowers you wish to cut for the vases?... bet you never visit a florist!. :-)
Mondwin
Looks splendid my friend!!!!!!Bravissimo!!!:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
jayfar
A beautiful shot Andrea and I bet that skull is worth more than a 'pony'.
jendellas
Lovely sunflowers, you have a skull collection????
MrsRatbag
That colour combination is wonderful; pale green is underappreciated, I think!
miwi
Klasse setup;like it very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Star4mation
Super photo Andrea. Love the horse skull. I found a horned sheep skull on Dartmoor years ago which I must dig out sometime to photograph :)
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
wysiwig
A lovely display. Something you don't see very often in the urban jungle, a horse skull. Or a horse for that matter.
danapommet
A skull collection yet I am not really surprised. You are the women that has everything! A very nice photo of #51.
auntietk
I like the arrangement. Those lovely purple bits around the edges really set off the bold hydrangea blooms. Do you know, I don't think I ever knew you had a skull collection. Fascinating!
CavalierLady
Lovely image and I'm with Tara, surprising and unique collection to have!
anahata.c
Ok, skip-around time. No rhyme or reason, I just look through your gallery and I choose, apologizing to the other images and promising with my life I'll comment on them before I die. Well, you know how much I love your "Flowers in the House" series. Tara and I talk about it on the phone. This one is so unusual. Your lighting---or perhaps your postwork---feels flatter than in your other pieces in this series, and it feels therefore more of a studio portrait, with that flat light on the subject, and a very graphic feeling. It seems like a print more than a photo. It's just fascinating what you did here. It's almost eerie. The flowers facing us have the feeling of a photo of people with enough light to almost flatten their faces. It's like you wanted to capture this in a mysterious artificial light. But then the reverse side---in the mirror---is so much more painterly, and it adds a whole other picture to the picture. And then there's the skull: What a great addition. Because it's a wholly horizontal element (in a heavily vertical piece), and because the light on it makes it feel like wood polished by centuries of waters and waves. And it's such a smooth contrast to the tiny flowers. The green table and dark mirror are perfect contrast with the flat grays. One of your most fascinating Fl.ITHouse pieces I've seen. And with the yellow wall around the mirror, you've entered van Gogh territory, or Matisse! What a rich gathering in one shot! Really fine, Andrea.