I know, I know! What I should really be trying to do is getting the perfect picture straight out of camera. But I’m just not that good. Occasionally I surprise myself, but for every other time, there’s PhotoShop. Sometimes, a photo only needs a small tweak and sometimes it needs… erm… a little more help....
Category Archives: Photo Challenges
Mon Cherry Amour
I’m going through a bit of a creative slump… I don’t have much energy to pick up the camera and even less enthusiasm for editing. But these cherries just looked so delicious… I couldn’t resist. That is, I couldn’t resist quickly taking a few pictures before eating them all. I think I ate the whole...
Spring this is not
Spring refuses to come to Belgium. Absolutely refuses. It might peek out from behind the clouds during the week (when I’m cooped up in an office) but come the weekend, without fail, down comes the rain, chilly gusts of wind start blowing and the sky turns a steely grey. It’s driving me crazy. I want...
Uninvited Guest
I was sitting in the bathroom when I noticed this scene and kinda fell in love with it. It looks like he’s just emerged from the bath and is on his way over to the mirror to check that his spikes are all pointing in the right direction. I’d love to think that we had...
First Shoot(s) of Spring
This morning I woke up with the distinct impression there was sun behind the curtains. And sure enough, there it was. Unfortunately, this led me to the fool-hardy decision to go outside with bare feet and nothing but my pajamas on. Here is what I learnt: sun (even when plentiful) does not equal warmth. In...
Ode to an Egg
If you’ve never had a Cadbury Creme Egg, your life is not complete.
THIS is what macro lenses were made for. Clearly. I am now going to stare at myself in the mirror with disgust.
Brazilian Archive
I had an urge today to do something a bit different… An urban landscape or maybe even an industrial landscape… Something I could have fun aging and adding texture to… And then I remembered some of the pictures I took in Brazil a year and a half ago. I don’t know why I never did...
First Day of Spring?
The face-paint obsession continues. This time we did flowers in honor of the sun that finally peeked out from behind the persistent blanket of grey sky that has been with us for the last few months. And I do mean “peeked”: it was there on Saturday but gone again today. It’s teasing us. Come on...
Challenging
Most of my pictures tend to be of Amélie. And who can blame me? Sometimes though I need a bit of a kick up the bum. I need to try something different that pushes me to learn a new technique or a new processing method. So yesterday, Han suggested we go for a quick evening...