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)
Juliette.Gribnau
wonderful reflection in the glass
Faemike55
Very nice
kaward
Very nice, It's not often people get gifts that right! Great shot!
jayfar
Lovely shot Andrea. It must be in tune with its surroundings !!
pixelmeister
Well done!
wysiwig
And with a fancy tassel included at no extra charge. Simple, elegant and very attractive.
giulband
Excellent still-life !!
pat40
Excellent pic Andrea, My late sister gave me the Blue Chicken years ago, I guess she may have bought it in Glastonbury where she lived,
helanker
A really beautiful blue color. What a nice gift :-)
jendellas
Very posh, I can remember my auntie having a bottle of perfume like that, but not blue.
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Star4mation
Lovely looking bottle Andrea :)
Glendaw
What a beautiful photo of this lovely gift Andrea. Awesome catch of the bubble reflections and of the surrounding areas.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Brilliant shot Andrea. Can these atomizers be reused I wonder?
MrsRatbag
Lovely in the gold light!
Katraz
Nice blue bottle .
anmes
lovelty still life...i like the downlight only, just focusing on the blue spray. I remeber this perfume from 60s..and had no idea it was still available!
irisinthespring
Awesome capture!
danapommet
A very pretty blue color and a beautiful atomizer!
anahata.c
I may, at some point, leave lots more shorter comments, so I can leave more comments period: I feel perennially bad that I get to maybe 1/4 of your and others' images. Trouble is, I love longer comments, and if I leave them, I can't get to every image; esp for those of you who post more than 1 shot a day. Problem is, I haven't found the technique for shorter comments yet. (Though it WOULD be fun to go through 20 images and write "awful!" "I may puke!" and "ever take a lesson???" just to get out the pent up need to be a total bastard to the whole damned site, once a month. Or just say "I HATE ART!!!" There's gotta be an outlet for that...) Anyway, I SEE every upload, and study every one; I just can't leave a long comment on all of them, for which I'm sorry. That said, the is bottle is, itself, beautiful. But the pic has your compositional still-life sense. Terrific, with that deep blue glass against the whited-out light of the lamp. And how the spritzer and its tubing---whatever the term is (atomizer and tubing?)---sweep around and break into the lamp's bright light. I love how the tassels at the end of the spritzer-bulb face in our direction (musical movement), and how you have a chunk of white light at the bottom of the bottle. And the touch of red in the wooden something-or-other in the far left. A terrific still life. And there's a lot going on inside that bottle-glass too. Every bit worthy of a shot, and you did a great job. (when I was a kid, my mom would tell me "that's an atomizer"---and, being the 1950's when nuclear bombs were built, I thought, "holy s--t! I'm not touching THAT thing!" I thought, if you didn't squeeze it right, you could get radiation sickness or even die. Why would someone spend a ton of money for a fragrance which, if squeezed wrong, could lead to major skin diseases or even death, I pondered. I consequently never went near perfume bottles till I was an adult.)