Category Archives: Flowers

Spring Attika Mainland Greece

March-April-May 2017 Wild poppies sprout all over mainland Greece early in the Spring season. They’re known as ‘paparoūnes’ here. It’s the very first time we’ve visited Greece during this delightful time of year when days are sunny and the air … Continue reading

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How Beautiful is my Lilly? Part II

My Lilly gets prettier the more I look upon her…    

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How Beautiful is my Lilly? Part I

My beautiful Lilly…        

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An Australian Backyard Garden

I’ve got a secret garden. Its tucked deep in the Australian countryside, close enough to the sea to hear crashing waves in the dead of night, and near enough to National Parks for bilbies to consider my lawn their turf. … Continue reading

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30 Days of Gratefulness-Ramadan Part 12: Hide & Seek

Look at modern Dubai’s shimmering skyline and imposing architecture. Oops. Wrong article. Get back to nature, Alice; you really should get out of that office, and into the light. Well my own advice I certainly took, and along with it came … Continue reading

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Wedding Cake

…and the crowd yelled “we want CAKE!” Ah, the hungry wedding guests shall be subdued only, and finally, with a piece of your delicious and prettily decorated wedding cake. Its true! Family and friends wish only to gush over its style, colour, tiers … Continue reading

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Flowers Up A Wall

How exquisite is A Flower! What miracle is serves when lifting downtrodden spirits or sullen moods. Where does its well of endless beauty stem? How is it that my eyes never tire to fix upon a flower, whether sprouting in … Continue reading

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The Shop Front

Being the polo-watching, horse-adoring, jodhpur-wearing lassie that I am, inevitability stated that today my camera was to shoot that bastion of retail aesthetic, La Martina. It is at La Martina that my obsession with the hand-crafted riding boot becomes my quarry, a … Continue reading

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

There was once a king and three of his friends who promised each other to give up drinking, feasting and female company for three years, and devote themselves to the pure pursuits. The King was infatuated with the self-denying discipline of … Continue reading

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You Out of Focus? Yes! And on Purpose!

It was a “eureka” moment for me – when I learned how to stay sharply focused on what I wanted eyes to cast upon in my images…and keep the background nice and soft. What I had discovered was how to leave my … Continue reading

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