Posted on November 28, 2025
My guess is that the greater part of flower photography is principally concerned with colours. However, a monochrome conversion of an image of a colourful flower can reveal otherwise hidden textural complexities.

Category: Flowers Tagged: Berries, Black & White, leaves, Monochrome, Monochrome-Madness, Texture
Posted on October 6, 2025
Well, it’s definitely that time of year again, and apart from the chillier mornings perhaps the most immediately noticeable sign that autumn is upon us is nature’s changing colour palette as the predominant greens steadily turn to reds and browns.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Autumn Colours
Category: Flowers Tagged: Autumn, autumn colours, autumn leaves, Berries, Bokeh, Lens-Artists, Red
Posted on December 16, 2020
Round here, if you want some holly for a seasonal decoration, you just have to go and collect some from the hedgerows.

Posted on December 21, 2016
Don’t ask me what plant these berries are from. All I know is that this photograph was taken a few years ago in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney.

Nikon D300 with 18-55mm kit lens at 55mm, 1/100 at f5.6 ISO 200. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments Challenge Week 23
Category: Macro Tagged: Berries, Botanical Gardens, Macro, Macro Moments, Purple, Sydney
Posted on November 2, 2016
Early morning raindrops add interest to this bunch of bright red berries.

D800 with 24-70mm f2.8 lens at 70mm. 1/90 at f4, ISO 140. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Posted on December 29, 2013
It’s been pleasantly, if unseasonably, warm and sunny lately here at Tranquility Base: perfect weather for a walk along the quiet local roads.
The hedgerows are full of both life and death:
Some more images: