“Days Gone By” is an elegant black and white photograph of a lovely young Clydesdale horse in traditional harness. A selected range of quality products including prints, iPad – iPhone cases, t-shirts, mousepads, notepads and many more gift items featuring “Days Gone By” can be seen below and are now available for purchase.
VIEW ALL PRODUCTS FEATURING “DAYS GONE BY”
I am sure that some of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will already know that I have recently opened a shop on Etsy for selling signed Fine Art prints of my drawings, paintings and photography. I will eventually also add some original artwork (drawings, paintings and ACEO’s) as well as some of my handcrafted sterling silver and gemstone jewellery.
My Etsy shop Art By Michelle is now all set up and I have been busy stocking with new items. Many of the 8″x10″ and 8″x12″ prints listed are in stock ready for immediate shipping, smaller sizes and different papers, canvas, and paper finishes (matt, lustre, gloss, metallic) can be custom ordered. The shipping price applies to the first print only, additional prints in the same or smaller size ship free of charge.
Prices are currently listed in $US as the Etsy market is predominantly North American, but I can change that to $AUD in the future if necessary. Listed fine art and photography prints for sale can also be ordered directly from me via email and payments can be made through Paypal or Direct Deposit/Money Order for Australian customers.
I am adding new art and photography prints for sale on a daily basis, so if there is a painting or artwork that you would particularly like that is not currently listed, please drop me an email and I will add it to the shop for you.
Softly - Fine Art Dressage photography print ©Michelle Wrighton
Sunset Silhouette | Fine Art Landscape Photography print © Michelle Wrighton
Fire and Ice - Siamese cat portrait painting Fine Art print
The Blue Between | Abstract Nature Photography © Michelle Wrighton
My Art and photography prints and gifts are available for sale in the following places;
Art By Michelle Etsy shop – signed and custom prints options for sale
Redbubble Art Shop Gift cards, matted, laminated, canvas and framed art prints for sale
Zazzle Art Shop Posters, ornaments, t-shirts, bags, posters, coffee mugs, canvas prints magnets, shoes, photo cards for sale
I can also be found on:
TWITTER – artistMichelleW
FACEBOOK – My Art Page
FACEBOOK – My Photography Page
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY – my photography website
Thanks for sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
Michelle
Cape Naturaliste Coastal Landscape © South West Photography
Cape Naturaliste Coastal Landscape © South West Photography
Cape Naturaliste Coastal Landscape © South West Photography
Cape Naturaliste Coastal Landscape © South West Photography
Cape Naturaliste Coastal Landscape © South West Photography
Yallingup Waves © South West Photography
Yallingup South West Coast © South West Photography
Limited Christmas Pet Portraits Commissions are still available, but closing dates fro guaranteed Christmas delivery are just around the corner !
Commission your own Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
FACEBOOK: Michelle Wrighton Artist
TWITTER: artistMichelleW
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portraits, Events, Landscapes and Photographic Art
SHOP CUSTOMIZED ART PRINTS, T-SHIRTS & GIFTS: Zazzle
SHOP CARDS, MATTED, LAMINATED AND FRAMED ART PRINTS: Redbubble
The four day Redbubble *Black Friday until Cyber Monday Christmas Sale is now on! 15% savings on all matted, laminated, mounted, canvas and framed prints and a massive 30% saving on Greeting Cards when you purchase 16 or more (they don’t have to be the same image to enjoy this saving!)
"High Five" Baudins Cockatoo framed photographic print by Michelle Wrighton
"Noble" German Shepherd charcoal drawing Postcard print
"William" framed Cat pet portrait print
"Eventer" greeting card equine art by Michelle Wrighton
To ensure delivery of gifts and cards in time for Christmas, Redbubble advises the following:
December is the busiest time of the year for all postal networks, and as Redbubble ships from printers all around the globe, shipping times can vary. Once your order has been manufactured, in most cases it will end up in the hands of your local mail service, which can be at the mercy of severe weather, postal strikes, customs, dogs, and sometimes alien abduction. While we will do our best to make and send your item as soon as possible, we don’t have control over your local postal system. While we can never guarantee that you will receive orders by a certain date, you should aim to place your Christmas orders with Redbubble before these dates to have the best chance of arriving before Christmas:
Limited Christmas Commissions available!
Commission your own Pet Portrait Painting by Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
FACEBOOK: Michelle Wrighton Artist
TWITTER: artistMichelleW
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portraits, Events, Landscapes and Photographic Art
SHOP CUSTOMIZED ART PRINTS, T-SHIRTS & GIFTS: Zazzle
SHOP CARDS, MATTED, LAMINATED AND FRAMED ART PRINTS: Redbubble
*Edit to add an explanation of what Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all about – being Australian I really had no idea, Black Friday is normally a Friday that falls on the 13th day of the month! Anyway…as explained very well by Amy-Elyse, Black Friday and Cyber monday relate to Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping in the USA.
“In the U.S. people camp out starting the day before thanksgiving to buy cheap stuff friday morning. Friday after Thankgiving to the following monday is the big shopping day for the holidays. Friday is known as Black Friday because it is the day that pulls businesses solidly “Into the Black” (as in bookeeping) A lot of businesses rely on this weekend to make or break their year end quarter, so they offer ridiculous mark downs on limited quantities of select “Hot ticket Items” in the hopes that you will join the crush to try to get there in time for them, and either fail and buy other not so discounted stuff or succeed and also buy other non discounted stuff. Cyber Monday refers to the following monday when people who skipped it friday clog the internet buying stuff online to make sure it arrives in time for gift giving”.
So there you go…Black Friday and Cyber Monday – you learn something new everyday!
I can’t help myself, I take thousands of photographs of everything around me, both for reference material for my artwork and because my camera is just another medium to create art. I don’t always have time to go through all my photos and select my favorites to display, but the other day I realized that my photography galleries were very outdated and thought I had better add some new ones. This is just a few of the new additions, the rest rest can be seen in the Landscape and Animal& Wildlife Photography Galleries. These photos were all taken within a short distance of my home, except the Tawny Frogmouth which was found a little further south. Enjoy!
Harvest Landscape © 2010 Michelle Wrighton | South West Photography
Sunset Silhouette © 2010 Michelle Wrighton | South West Photography
Long Shadows © 2010 Michelle Wrighton | South West Photography
Dark Sky © 2010 Michelle Wrighton | South West Photography
Up Close and Personal - Tawny Frogmouth © 2010 Michelle Wrighton | South West Photography
Thanks for visiting my blog and sharing my art and photography with your family and friends!
x Michelle
Michelle Wrighton: Animal, Wildlife & Landscape Fine Art & Photography
FACEBOOK: Michelle Wrighton Artist
TWITTER: artistMichelleW
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portrait, Event, Landscape and Fine Art Photography Prints
BUY CUSTOMIZED ART POSTERS, ART PRINTS, T-SHIRTS & GIFTS: Zazzle
BUY CARDS, PHOTO PRINTS, CANVAS ART AND FRAMED ART PRINTS: Redbubble
Boyup Brook is the Country Music Capitol of Western Australia, and the annual Country Music Festival and WA Country Music Awards brings visitors not only from around WA and the rest of Australia, but also from around the world. This was my first time attending the Festival and it was a bit of a shock to have so many people in our sleepy little town!
A local icon © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Boyup Brook Country Music Festival © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Boyup Brook Country Music Festival © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Boyup Brook Country Music Festival © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Boyup Brook Country Music Festival © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Country Music Festival ©South West Photography All Rights Reserved
Yes the two following photos were taken at the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival, LOL the last thing I (and everyone else) expected to see was a punk playing non-traditional music on the bagpipes, but this guy was very good and I regret not buying one of his CD’s!
The Bad Piper - Punk 'n' Bagpipes © South West Photography
Punk playing the bagpipes at the Country Music Festival © South West Photography All Rights Reserved
The 2011 Boyup Brook Country Music Festival will be held on 17th – 20th February 2011 and will feature Troy Cassar-Daley, Felicity Urquhart, Peter Denahy s well as the Bush Poet’s Breakfast, Country Music Awards, stalls and markets, free street party and the Ute and Truck Muster.
All images from the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival and the Ute and Truck Muster can be viewed and purchased through the events section of South West Photography website.
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portrait, Event, Landscape and Fine Art Photography Prints
I have just changed over from using Photoshop CS4 to Lightroom 2.4 for processing my photographs – all I can say is I wish I had done this sooner! As much as I resist learning new computer programs (fuzzy mummy brain I think), Lightroom is so quick to use compared to CS4, the time out I have taken to learn how to use it is going to be a huge benefit in improving my workflow, especially for batch processing. Here is a selection of the first images that I have processed through Lightroom from my road trip down south to Boyup Brook.
The only nitpick that I have with Lightroom is the watermarking ability or lack thereof. I have purchased the mogrify preset which allows me to use my standard watermark…but it places them at the same location in every image, which can obscure important elements of the photograph. Plus I need to make additional copies of the watermark for different opacity and colours so that I can select slightly more subtle watermarks to suit individual images better…either that or just continue to use CS4 and apply the watermarks manually for each image.
Other than that one issue, I can highly recommend Lightroom to any photographer looking to speed up their workflow.
I hope you enjoy these images, some of them will be available for purchase as prints http://southwestphotography.com.au in the near future.
Cheers
Michelle
Orange Flower © 2009 South West Photography
Boyup Brook Farmland © 2009 South West Photography
Boyup Brook Farmland © 2009 South West Photography
Blackwood River, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
Blackwood River, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
Rustic Relics, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
Border Collie, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
Border Collie, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
SOUTH WEST PHOTOGRAPHY: Portrait, Event, Landscape and Fine Art Photography Prints
Sometimes life just gets a little bit too stressful, and the best way to deal with it is a few hours in the country re-connecting with nature and the beautiful land that we live in. Yesterday was one of those days, and what a joy to just take a few hours and enjoy the sunshine and the beauty of our South West. I rarely go anywhere interesting without my camera in hand, so I do have a few of my favourite shots to share with you all:)
I’m very happy with these for several reasons, firstly every single shot was taken in full manual, and while I have always been pleased with the 50D’s output in the other creative settings that I normally use with changing light/movement situations, I can honestly say that nothing beats pure manual for getting the best images! Secondly, and this is a biggie for me, I was shooting with the beast (70-200mm 2.8L), but every shot was hand held – the monopod didn’t go on the camera once! This is truly amazing (to me anyway) as after my first attempt at shooting handheld with the beast when I first got the 50D was a disaster, it was so heavy it made my wrists hurt and every photo had severe camera shake and I never thought I would be able to use it handheld.
Purple Flowers at Harvey ©2009 South West Photography
Rustic Farm Building ©2009 South West Photography
One Tree Hill Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
"panoRAMa" Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
Boyup Brook Farmland in July ©2009 South West Photography
Scarlet Breasted Robin Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
"Bird on a Wire" Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
Donnybrook to Boyup Brook Landscape © 2009 South West Photography
Scarlet Robin, Boyup Brook © 2009 South West Photography
"Flight" Birdwatching in Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
Blackwood River, Boyup Brook ©2009 South West Photography
Boyup Brook at Dusk © South West Photography
Little Lamb backlit by the Sun ©2009 South West Photography
The Golden Hour ©South West Photography
I have to say that I was really pleased with the last two – the little lamb was shot through a ringlock fence and I wasn’t sure if my settings where correct for the lens to blur out the wire strands, but obviously they were (yay for me). I had to jump out of the car, over a muddy ditch and up a hill to say hi to three very friendly horses that came over to the fence when I called them. It was the golden hour and the light from the sinking sun behind them was just magnificent while this big bay gelding happily posed for me to practice my silhouette shots:) In the full size, his chin whiskers look like threads of pure gold.
Ok, I think thats more than a few photos (I know, I just can’t help myself)…although I do have heaps more that I will add at some stage when I get time to process them. I’d love to know which of the photos is your favourite and why, so please feel free to leave me a comment:)
Cheers
Michelle
Yesterday I had a session with very cute 71/2 month old Jack. What a cutie-pie, but oh-so serious when it came time to take his photos:) Thanks to his very sweet mum, K for letting me come to your home and photograph your gorgeous boy! I hope you enjoy this sneak peak at some of his photographs!
Baby Portrait Photography ©South West Photography
Baby Portrait Photography ©South West Photography
Baby Portrait Photography ©South West Photography
Baby Portrait Photography ©South West Photography
Portrait photography session information is available on the portraits section of my South West Photography website.
Yesterday was such a beautiful day, so we took the kids down to Fremantle for a few hours (of course so did half of the metropolitan area;). Normally if I take my camera when we go out, I lug the heavy 70-200mm 2.8L around with me (gotta love L zoom:) but the down side is that its pretty heavy to carry when you just want to wander around for a few hours. So I popped the nifty fifty on my camera and apart from a few portrait shots of the kids, decided to step way outside of my normal subject matter and try to get some interesting shots of some of the old buildings. Considering I’m not into architecture photography, I am quite pleased with how these turned out!
Hotel Cleopatra Fremantle ©2009 South West Photography
Fremantle Architecture Photography ©2009 South West Photography
Fremantle Architecture Photography ©2009 South West Photography
Fremantle Architecture Photography ©2009 South West Photography
Fremantle Architecture Photography ©2009 South West Photography
Fremantle Markets ©2009 South West Photography
Additional images are available on my photography website South West Photography
