http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk Delicate, yet dramatic, exquisitely coloured photographs Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:38:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is supposed to be a cheer you up picture. In part inspired by Barbara Manzi-Fe I spent a little time this morning thinking about what photographs are for. Of course they have a myriad of uses, but one of their characteristics is that they often reflect the feelings and ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=133   Derry Watkins - Special Plants Catalogue 2002/2003 Cover photograph Michauxia tchihatchewii     Derry Watkins Special Plants Catalogue www.specialplants.net   http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=1 BARBARA WIDENS VIEW OF NATURE Stroud based photographer Barbara Manzi-Fe has gained renown for her exquisite detailed portraits of flora and fauna. Now she switched her lens from micro to wide-angled and taken in the whole scenery, paying attention to the sun rays and rain clouds. Bev Hawes discovers how she ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=91 BODY AND SOUL    The Snapper  with a steadying  hand. Barbara Manzi-Fe's garden in  the Cotswolds is a scene of high drama. It might be a raindrop poised on the cusp of petal, a fly clinging to a pollen encrusted stamen or the lush curve of a velveteen petal. This is the secret ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=99 Barbara branches back into photos with flower show Barbara Manzi-Fe, the Stroud based photographic artist, has an exhibition of her magnified flowers and landscape opening at the Stroud Subsciption Room this weekend. Manzi-Fe studied photography in London but gave it up to become a psychotherapist. She was persuaded to return to photography, ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=105 Heavy Petal Barbara Manzi-Fe's photos of flowers make you feel as if summer is already here. Folio looks through the lens of this local artist. A keen gardener, as well as a photographer, Barbara Manzi-Fe doesn't just see all that hard work that needs to be done in the garden.  Using natural ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=110 Flower Powers Variety is the spice for a psychotherapist who turned photographer, writes Suzanne Savill Life can work out in unexpected ways. Take Barbara Manzi-Fe - she worked in fashion photography, and then became a psychotherapist. But after 17 years working in psychotherapy she has made a fresh impact working as a photographer ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=114 When you look at your flower bed, what do you see? Masses of colour? Contrasts ­ heights, forms, shades? Or do you, like most gardeners, seeweeds and jobs to be done? I¹m certain that few of us see what Countryside member Barbara Manzi Fe sees. Her photographer¹s eye takes in the ... http://www.barbaramanzi-fe.co.uk/?p=117