Yellow a stimulating and brilliant colour.

Yellow a stimulating and brilliant colour.

Yellow the brightest colour in the spectrum. Fun, stimulating and picturesque, not really the colour one would paint a whole house in. But touches here and there add a vibrant and happy feel to a home. In my earlier days of photography I was fascinated by the seasonal...

Light blue, is good for your soul.

Light blue, is good for your soul.

With this blog I am begining a series on colour.  Colour lightens our life and adds such a beautiful dimension to all we see. How clever is our God to come up with a concept like colour. Through our eyes we absorb the beauty of creation in an array of colours. Each...

Black and white images of our coastline

Black and white images of our coastline

  Black and white images stand out as being simple and yet bold. Two basic colours at the end of the spectrum provide room for our imaginations. Two extremes of light and dark with many shades of grey in between. It's perhaps the shades of grey that provide the...

Locating Yorke Peninsula’s lone apostle.

Locating Yorke Peninsula’s lone apostle.

Embarking on a walk over the towering cliffs of the south end of Yorke Peninsula, we made a journey to try and discover the one lone apostle. A lonely fisherman had reported seeing this legendary rock from his boat in the ocean. But no land living creature, that we...

Painting with your soul, the distant lighthouse

Painting with your soul, the distant lighthouse

  If you could photograph with your soul, what would your photos look like? Art is what you see in your soul. Art is a dream you have inside your heart. I photograph what I consider to be some of the most beautiful elements of our earth. Then I add my own...

A strange and eerie place to visit

A strange and eerie place to visit

Whilst out fishing one day, we discovered at the back of Althorpe Island, a tiny inlet. (called Salmon Inlet.) As we drove the boat in closer the water colour turned from sea blue into a magnificent deep oceanic green. Very beautiful, very majestical, and quite...

Why slow living could be good for you.

Why slow living could be good for you.

This is all the new trend….but I do tend to like this idea of slow living. For I often find I am in a rush. I have this anxious feeling of rushing through all my daily tasks, to bring them to completion asap.This anxious, rushing, feeling, I can trace back to my...

Tips on keeping safe at our South Australian beaches.

Tips on keeping safe at our South Australian beaches.

In the Australian summer on the south coast we can be bothered by many things, flies, mosquitoes, snakes, march flies, a hot sun, ants, jelly fish, sting rays, pounding waves and vicious under tows……you would think that a sunny day at the beach would be the worst...

Does your interior draw ideas from the ocean?

Does your interior draw ideas from the ocean?

The influence the ocean has on our homes is subtle but nearly always evident.Take a look around your home, do you have a shell or two, a blue and white pillow, a potted palm, a framed pic of a boat or yacht, a sea shell necklace, the list goes on?The ocean, vast and...

Progress on the beach house

Progress on the beach house

Progress has been slow over the winter. Heaps of rain so the water tanks are over flowing. However we have been able to work on the inside as most of the outside is finished. I have made a tiny garden of local plants. All the same type of grasses for a unified,...