Red and Yellow

Namur, 24th November 2012.

It's been a long time since I did a "proper" photo session and it has been a fair while since I was out and about in Namur. The trees are a lot barer than they were when I was last in Belgium, some three weeks ago, but there are still some Autumn reds and yellows around; there are some beautiful golden ginkyos at the road sides and flashes of yellow and orange amongst the woods on the citadel. This photoshoot was of some berries and flowers I got from Namur's vast Saturday market. As always, it was the colours- here the rich, warm Autumn colours- that attracted me, but these are very shapely/ "architectural" plants too, so I had some fun playing with that, as well. 

These are some of my favourites from a session of about 200-250 pictures: all taken with the usual Sony alpha 230 camera, using natural daylight from large studio windows, plus some internal (sodium) lighting and a few stone, painted wood and cloth props.

- Posted by Victoria Neblik.

"6-of-the-Best-Russian Vine" (Winter Series 2011/2012)

Thanks for visiting my Art Site.

I don't have an exhibition coming up for a little while and I am somewhat tied-up with editing the photo-books. Largely for these reasons, I am only releasing one new series of images for sale this Winter: the title is "6 of the Best- Russian Vine"

I have experimented with a lot of different themes over the past few months, some have taken days, some longer, but this is the series that resonates the most; it was also one of the quickest series I have completed in a long time. They are all prints of frost melt-water on Russian Vine- fruits of a single early-morning photo-shoot. Prints are very limited edition (10 of each to be sold worldwide), a total of 6 images, all professionally printed at A4 size. Prints are signed on the reverse and the logo is only printed on the reverse, not on the front. All pictures supplied backed and mounted. Price on enquiry. Queries/ Reservations by e mail: contact mail@victorianeblik.com

Russian Vine 1

Russian Vine 2

Russian Vine 3

Russian Vine 4

Russian Vine 5

Russian Vine 6

Thanks for your interest.
Victoria.

Fun with Paint.net effects...

Backlit Narcissus tazetta given the paint.net effects (still using the old- Panasonic DMC-LZ3- camera)

Happy Christmas

Christmas Eve, Emek Rafa'im, Jerusalem

December in the Mediterranean Area- A few quick pictures

Welcome to VictoriaNeblikArt. I am updating this myself today with just a quick post.

After over a year of using primarily my fancy all-singing, all dancing (not quite, but almost) digital camera and taking somewhere betwee 20,000 and 30,000 shots, it has been quite a shock over the past few days to have gone back to my "secondary camera". This is a Lumix Mega OIS with a fixed lens (6x optical zoom and *gasp* a mere 5 million pixels to play with). Shocking, right? Anyway, my trip to Jerusalem not primarily a photographic trip and needs (and airline luggage allowance) must, so this is what the Lumix Mega OIS can do...

These are the fruits of a late-afternoon trip to the Jerusalem Botanic Gardens-specifically, the Mediterranean and Atlas-Mountains section.

There are some more pictures, but I am still trying to work out what will go in the (long overdue) Weirdbeautiful Book, so what I post online here will depend upon what gets earmarked for the book. In the meantime, here are the Mediterranean plants and thanks for following/reading-

Juniper

 

Lupin

Conifers

I love the setting of this sheltered bench- very peaceful- just the distant hum of the city and the breeze in the trees and a view of conifers

Detail of Juniper tree

One of several streams in the gardens

Victoria.
Posted by V. Neblik, Dec 2011.
These images feature in a post on the blog weirdbeautiful, [HERE]

Prints by Victoria Neblik: White Fossil

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