Flower Sprite Calendar 2009

For the past few months I have been working with Rose Moxon one of the worlds top 3D artists. We've been collaborating and producing a number of images to be published in a calender for 2009. The December image (Sylph) is shown below:

All images can be seen in more detail in the Collaborations album in the gallery on my web site.

Helianthus

Today's post is of an image titled "Helianthus" and is one of the most viewed images I have on redbubble. It's a photograph of a sunflower with texture overlays. The image has also been used in a collaboration with one of the world's top 100 3D artists, Rose Moxon.

Rose's version of the image is shown below. To see more of her fantastic 3D art click here.

The Red Dahlia

A bit of a departure from my 'normal' posts. The Red Dahlia is a digitally created flower that was crafted in Apophysis. This was a featured image at Redbubble.com a couple of weeks ago.

Enchanted-Light

After some enquiries regarding purchasing prints in the USA I have now opened a new website, in partnership with SmugMug, to offer prints and merchandise.

SmugMug were chosen for their excellent guarantee, quality and service. They not only ship within the US but will also ship to most countries in the world.

The link to the new site is here.

Some more news...

A picture library I use contacted me last week to tell me they are starting a new venture selling framed botanical prints and some of my images will be included in the range. I'm not sure yet what images they'll use but the image below may be one of those included. I'll post more information when it's available.

White campion (Silene alba)

I have also added some of my images to RedBubble for sale as cards, prints and posters. They can be seen at the following link: Portfolio

Published again....

Two of my images have been published in the gallery section of Amateur Photographer in their November 3rd edition.

For anyone thinking of submitting to the magazine it is not a quick process. I submitted a portfolio of 10 images to AP in February 2006. In June 2006 I received an email notifying me that the portfolio had been accepted for publication but that it would not appear in print for 9+ months. In all it has taken 20 months from submission to publication. During this time the format of the magazine has changed and they no longer publish reader's portfolios they now publish a selection of images over five pages. Whereas they used to pay £50 for a published portfolio they now only send the photographer a mug and only the editor's choice of the week receives the £50 (I'm waiting for the postman to deliver my mug).

The images featured in Amateur Photographer as shown below with their original titles.

Remix-Yellow

Blue Satin

Soft light...and a bit of news....

First some news: I've just been contacted by Amateur Photographer who have told me they are publishing one or more of my images in their Gallery section in the November 3 rd edition. I submitted a portfolio of 10 images to them in February 2006 so it's only taken 20 months to get to print :)

The image below is a close up of an Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum) in which I've tried to soften the light hitting the petals by using tissue paper as a diffuser. It has also had some post processing in photoshop to enhance the effect (zoom blur on a background layer and the petals faded into that.