Category: close-up

And… I’m back

Blog Note

So progress continues on the projects and I hope to have some work to show here soon. In the meantime, there’s no harm in continuing to document my peregrinations around Farnham and the occasional foray further afield. But I think we’ll start up with just 1 post a day, rather than the 3 I’ve been managing for the last 10 years or so…

Farnham, Surrey, UK

I was struck by the light shining through my recycling bin-liner.

Binocular Vision

Camberwell, London

While we waited to go into the studio, I couldn’t help but notice the stunning reflective sunglasses of my classmate, who kindly agreed to be photographed. My camera, reflected separately in each lens, came out looking like I was focusing a particularly large pair of binoculars on her.

Petals on a wet, black bough

I continue to work on my haiku project. Finding ‘petals on wet, black boughs’ is proving difficult. Above, this week’s selection of ‘leaves on dark backgrounds.’ It is, after all, not necessary to be literal. I can call on poetic license, can I not? Click any image to see them all enlarged.

Here is Pound’s original haiku:

One and Three Ceramics*

*with apologies to Joseph Kossuth

Seine, Paris

Came upon this interesting, fabric-textured ceramic, so I took a shot of it; then pulled back for some context so one could see the wall of the bridge support it was on, then pulled back even more so one can see where that bridge is. I couldn’t find any information on what it was, who its creator was or anything. Beautiful. Click any of the images to see them all enlarged to full size.

Life Forms

Some more of the amazing sea creatures and flora at the Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Click any image to enlarge them all (if you’re seeing this in an email, you’ll need to click through to https://islerweb.com first).

Kylemore Abbey

Victorian Walled Garden
Path to the Gothic Church
Path to the Gothic Church
Kylemore Abbey, Ireland

Click any image to see them all enlarged (but not if you’re seeing this in an email – you have to click through to open in your browser).

Image and Icon

  • Karel Martens
  • Art Institute of Chicago

When viewed at a distance, unfortunately difficult to do in the long hallway where this was displayed – but the long view below will give some idea, this image by Karel Martens gives an impression of a skyscape with fluffy cumulus clouds, but it is made up of these little glyphs, like in a half-tone printed image.