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Daisies in Hyde Park

It’s the start of a new month in the One Four photo edit challenge, and time to choose a new image.  After much deliberation, I’ve gone for something a bit different […]

Dragonfly Bench

This unpresumptuous bench looks quite ordinary at first glance, but the dragonfly detail is delicately engraved.  It celebrates the hard work of the Dragonfly Project, which is now based at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. […]

Drinks on the Serpentine

There can’t be many better places to while away an evening with friends – weather permitting, of course- than sitting beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Linked to Local Watering […]

Bicycles and Doorways

The beautiful architecture of Cambridge and the popularity of cycling in this busy university city, have resulted in a small series of photographs of doorways and bicycles combined. Copyright Debbie Smyth, […]

Bird’s Eye View in Hyde Park

It is summer at last! And in London, the glorious weather brought everyone out, humans and wildlife alike, to enjoy a balmy evening in the parks.  On the Serpentine in Hyde Park, the […]

Rules

Linked to Which Way? and Water World wednesday. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 1 July 2015

Manchester Bench

For the final week in Jude’s art effects bench challenge, I have modified a photo of a brand new, curvy bench in Manchester, using the emergence effect in FotoSketcher.  I am very […]

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

As far back as Ancient Greece, Aristotle had his scale of seven colours. Later, Isaac Newton constructed a colour circle, originally divided into five, but he later added orange and indigo to match the number of […]