Photography
Photography is very much about what you choose to put inside the frame – but also, every bit about what you choose to leave outside.
And then, how you choose to present that information – raw and unfiltered, or edited to create something quite beyond what the lens saw.
Colouring my day : Underwater Love
Yes, Underwater's not a real colour, but it is evocative of a certain section of the spectrum. And this track is so seductively good, I couldn't go past it. Smoke City : Underwater Love * {Sandra Darling via here} {Sivan Royz via...
Colouring my day : Golden Brown
Continuing on with my short interlude, I've got some more beautiful craft, surface design and photography, themed around songs with colour in the title. I hope you enjoy my selections. Julie x Golden Brown : The Stranglers The Stranglers are...
Colouring my day : All Neon Like
As you might know, I'm taking a kind of mini-break from the blog - but not disappearing completely. For the next little while, instead of full interviews with artists, I will be sharing a bunch of beautiful craft, surface design and photography, themed around...
Colouring my day : Purple Haze
As you might know, I'm taking a kind of mini-break from the blog - but not disappearing completely. For the next little while, instead of full interviews with artists, I will be sharing a bunch of beautiful craft, surface design and photography, themed around...
Colouring my day : Fade to Grey
Hi, I'm taking a kind of mini-break from the blog - but not disappearing completely. For the next two weeks, instead of full interviews with artists, I will be sharing a bunch of beautiful craft, surface design and photography, themed around music (thanks Annaig for...
Photography : Heather Goldy ~ the abandoned {urban exploration}
There's something seductively intriguing about abandoned asylums, abandoned sanitoriums, abandoned hotels; these cavernous halls, empty beds, service desks, things from the everyday workings of collectives of people. What is it? Perhaps it's the mystery - who...
Photography : Liz Reed {GardenCapture}
Liz Reed first studied to be a painter at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Then, it was only after selling her gallery and framing business she had been running for 25 years that she finally took the plunge into serious photography and her other love,...
Photography : VictoriaEnglishCharm
Stormy landscapes, windy days and delicate floral textures. All of these and more feature in Vicky of VictoriaEnglishCharm's eclectic collection of photographs. There are also many beautifully textured images of hair. I asked her about this apparent obsession....
Photography : Vaida Petreikis
Photography : Vaida Petreikis Texture, texture, texture. Rich and dense textures, in moody black and white; soft and delicate textures enriched with sweet and bright pastels. Lithuanian Vaida Petreikis came to photography more or less by chance. She...
Photography : MoonGardenArt {Valentina Ruggiero}
Sensuous and serene, the images of Valentina Ruggiero speak in whispers of other worlds dreamed of. Delicate and velvety, her work is at once seductive, mysterious and remote. MoonGardenArt is a reflection of what may be found in her work - recurring...
Photography: GreenGooseGallery
Atmospheric and serene, the images from GreenGooseGallery are balanced and beautiful. Stripped of extraneous noise, these quiet pictures allow the space to dream and meditate on gentle beauty - colour is kept to a minimum, but is used as a vital detail when...
Photography : Bel Atelier {Tamara Lee}
Photography : Tamara Lee BelAtelier is full of romance and nostalgia, of rosiness and sepia, of golden light and soft breezes. Fragments of beauty remembered and savoured. It's a far cry from the real life of Tamara Lee, who said she worked as a data...
Photography : Heidi Adnum
Stuck in a financial tight spot in London during the GFC in 2009, Heidi Adnum, encouraged by her husband, decided to turn her hobby of photography into a full-time job. "Despite the recession, after a few months and a lot of hard work, I was...
![Photography : Mable Tan [HappeeMonkee]](https://tractorgirl.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/happeemonkee-versailles-rococco.jpg)
Photography : Mable Tan [HappeeMonkee]
In the dead of winter in Sweden with very little else to do, and with the encouragement of her husband, Mable set up a photography shop on Etsy, and she has not looked back. Her images are soft, romantic and evocative, with a fine sense of balance. They are...
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Nature, saturated : Robert Middleton photography [CradleMountain]
I first contacted photographer Robert Middleton about featuring his work because I loved his saturated colours, rich textures and beautifully balanced, quiet compositions. They have a wonderful sense of simplicity and show a deep admiration for the gentleness of...
Photography : 9th Cycle Studios
9th Cycle Studios was named for Christine Weimers' fascination with the number 9 and the cyclical nature of the world - the seasons, fashions or even just the notion of something with neither beginning nor end. Originally from Toowoomba in...
Beach yourself : Seabirds
We've scoured the beaches, we've laughed and squabbled over chips. It's been fun, but it's time to fly home. I wish I could take a little bit of you with me. See you back in the real world on Monday. Julie x {As always, images are linked to their...
Beach yourself : Under the sea
Under the sea. It's entirely another world, and it has captured artists' imaginations for centuries. Hope you enjoy these picks from around the interwebs. Julie x {All images are linked to their sources.} I know I'm not the only one fascinated with these...
Beach yourself : Fish
I'm on holidays at the beach with my family, camping in a beautiful spot, surrounded by lakes, bush, sand dunes, and sea. So while I'm away, here's a selection of works themed around some of my favourite beachy things. One thing we love to do is go fishing. My...
Beach yourself : Sand
You know it. When you're at the beach, sand gets everywhere. On your skin, in your hair, in your towel, on your sunglasses, in your water bottle. But somehow, it's still fun - I rediscovered the joys of sandcastle-building after we took our young daughter to the...
Beach yourself : Water
Water. It's the core reason we go the beach, isn't it? To look at, to swim in, to cool our heels. To let its lusciousness lap over us. Perhaps it's something primeval, or perhaps it's just that I live in a dry part of the world. Whatever the reason, dive on in,...
Photography : Erin Tyner
Like stills from a movie I have never seen, Erin Tyner's small dioramas are disconnected narratives - a fragment of a story, if only I knew what was going on. I am quite captivated by them. Little scenes of real possibilities, surreal for their pretence - in...
Photography : Elle Moss
Elle Moss is mysterious and elusive, much like her images. And she's not actually Elle at all, but is really an invention of Lisa Sieczka, a photographer from the small town of Saline, Michigan, where she lives with her husband, two kids and two cats, in a two...
From here to there and a best of 2012
It's been a big year for me folks! And that's for several reasons - first and foremost is that my youngest children, my twin boys, started school this year - which left me with a few hours spare during the day to pursue tractorgirl stuff with a bit more focus....
The poetry of stars
It's almost christmas, and I know from experience it can be a bit frantic. Enjoy your loved ones. Take the time to breathe, and contemplate the peace of stars. * The Peace of Wild Things BY WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the...
Photography : Kari Herer
Kari Herer's Dad was a biology teacher, and she credits him with her love of nature. She said she grew up surrounded by animals - at one point they had a baby pool in their kitchen with African frogs in it, and another time they kept a rescued bird in the spare...
Photography : Jetty Kolobaric
Self-taught photographer Jetty Kolobaric is a person of few words. Living in Helmond in the south of the Netherlands, she has travelled the world, and finds being restricted by borders "not my thing at all." Winter is her favourite season; mist is her favourite...
Photography : Augenblick
Rebeccah Dean is a photographer, collector of vintage images, and a maker of jewellery and objects. She sells various combinations of these things in her shop, Augenblick, which literally translates from the German as 'in the blink of an eye'. Her work is...
Photography : Molly’s Muses
Molly O'Bryon-Welpott lives in the rural town of DuBois, Pennsylvania, in a house that was built in 1915. Many of her neighbours have lived in the same home for 50 years. "My office is upstairs and I can see the elementary school. The small room has lots of...
Photography : Ortal Shaya
Ortal Shaya is an architect at heart, and her photography is fuelled by it. When she was small, she was always drawing plans for what she thought would be the perfect home for her family to live in. It was then in her late teens and early 20s that she started...