micklyn

Description: Still life in red and white of a pepper with a heart cut out. Taken using a Canon 400D using natural light.

Description: Still life photograph of chocolate surrounded by coffee beans...can you smell that? Taken with a Canon 400D using natural light. Featured in the group "Domestic Art - home is where the art is" - Feb 2009 - thank you! Featured in Still Life Fine Art and Food Photography - August 09 - Thank you so much!! Placed 3rd in the 'Things We Like to Eat' challenge in the group Photography Fun

Description: Placed in the Top Ten in a challenge in the First Things Group - June 2009 - thanks to those who voted! Portrait of my 5 year old taken in natural light, outside in the garden in the evening. Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: My 13 year old daughter. - came in the top 10 for the challenge "Teens in Black and White" in the group "Children - the power of raw emotion." Taken using natural light. Canon 400D

Description: Purple buds after the rain. Taken with a Canon EOS 400D.

Description: My daughter, Perrin (13) was lying back on the sofa, chatting with me while I worked. I took this shot and carried on with what I was doing. Canon EOS 400D, natural light, shot in raw, converted with zoombrowser, finished with photoshop cs2.

Description: An outside blue lightbulb glows without electricity after a rain storm. Taken using a Canon eos 400D

Description: A purple still-life. Finished in the top ten in the challenge 'In the Kitchen' in the Mood and Ambience Group Finished in the top ten in the challenge 'All Things Purple' in the First Things group - June 09 - Thank you for voting! Thank you to the person who bought a print of this!! Shot with my Canon EOS 400D

Description: Shot with my Canon 400D. Placed in the top ten in a challenge in The Collector's Corner - July 09 A coiled tape-measure on a pink background - we spend so much time measuring ourselves, measuring others, comparing and competing. Featured in the group "Domestic Art - home is where the art is" - Feb 2009

Description: My three year old son. Taken in natural light using a Canon 400D.

Description: I was playing around, trying to maximise the distortion offered by the wide-angle capabilities of my lens. Grace's latest pet snail! ( :

Description: Two of my sons kept me company one morning in the early hours of the day. I took this image of their feet. Taken with a canon 400D. Featured in the group "Canon versus Nikon" - Feb 2009

Description: A friend's 4 year old daughter poses for me in my 'studio'. Taken with a Canon 400D using natural light. Featured in the group "Childhood" - Feb 2009.

Description: My son, Johnny, resting on the trampoline at twilight. Taken with a Canon 400D. Placed in the Top Ten in the First Things Group challenge: Il bel far niente... - July 09. Featured in THE WAIST UP - Portrait Photography Group - April 2009 - thank you! Featured in Family Unlimited - October 2009 - thank you very much!

Description: Shot after a thunderstorm in the cool of the evening. Canon 400D.

Description: Taken using natural light, Canon 400D, pp in photoshop.

Description: Placed in the Top Ten in the group the Woman Photographer in the Cow challenge - July 09 - thank you for the votes!! ( : A different take on a newborn - my first attempt at cow portraiture! ( : Taken with my Canon 400D using natural light.

Description: My siamese cat, Hartford, resting on a white towel in the garden. Canon 400D.

Description: Low key image of onions and spinach taken with natural back lighting. Canon 400D.

Description: Been messing around with different shaped cut-outs over my lens to create shaped bokeh - this was the star one... obviously! Taken with a Canon 400D.

Description: A tiny purple flower shot in front of a pile of Christmas tinsel, with a paper-flower cut out on my lens.

Description: This gruesome murder occurred one Sunday morning in my bathroom... (that's the bug's version - the spider claims she was just hungry...) Taken using a Canon 400D, 100mm macro lens.

Description: One of my beautiful daughters dancing... taken using a Canon 400D, using natural light. This image was also taken further by my friend, wonderful artist "Karen Scrimes

Description: A fantasy portrait of my second daughter, Tane (8) - Taken with a Canon 400D using natural light, pp in photoshop.

Description: My 14 year old son cradles my 3 month old son in his hands - I couldn't resist. Taken using a Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: Finished in the Top Ten in a challenge 'Eyes of a child' in the Eye Macros group - September 09 One of my sons, John, with surprise in his eyes... Taken using my Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: Featured on RB Low Key themed Homepage 23 November 09 - woohoo!! These seed pods have such beautiful colour and texture... think I'd like to do some more shots once the pod opens, I think the seeds are pretty cool, too. PIty I only have a couple of canna plants in my garden... ( :

Description: Created with a Canon 400D, pp in photoshop.

Description: Featured in Strictly Human Faces - March 09 - Thank you so much! Featured in The Eyes Have It - May 09 - Thank you to the hosts!! Taken using a Canon 400D, natural light. Just out the pool, blue with cold but not lacking in attitude... ( :

Description: Featured in the group Freedom To Shine - June 09 - Thank you so much! Was out in the garden when I saw this box of fallen bougainvillea blossoms someone had swept up. Couldn't resist popping the baby in there. Taken using my Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: This is my youngest daughter. The light from the window behind her was bouncing off the floor up into her face. Canon 400D, natural light. Featured in Family Unlimited - October 2009 - thank you!

Description: A portrait of my 13 year old daughter, Perrin. Canon 400D, natural light. pp in photoshop.

Description: Featured in the Simply White Artwork Gallery - September 09 - thank you so much! Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: This is my son, Josh, 14. Well, part of him, anyway. Canon 400D.

Description: One of my favourite things - my Wusthof knife - expertly wielded by the amazing cook, my talented daughter Perrin. Canon 400D, natural light.

Description: Two crab spiders prepare to mate while a fly performs her morning ablutions, completely oblivious to their presence. Luckily for her, they had other things on their minds... Taken with a Canon 400D, 100mm macro lens, natural light. Featured in the Arachnids Group, March / April 2009