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After the Auction?
Category: Still life
No Irony Zone
“Health and Wellness for All” who can afford to LOOK their Best. Be Best.
Democracy or Else
Sunlight
The very last images from my time in Farnham, more views of the bright sunlight streaming into our apartment.
Sunlight on Mesh Bags
I’ve photographed these bags in the bright sun several times now. Not sure I’ve quite captured their luminescent glow.
Morning Frost
Light and Shadow
A couple more of the images I collected in Farnham of the bright sunlight flooding our apartment. The one above, shot on Ilford HP5 at 6 x 4.5 cm and the one below shot digitally.
Shaping Glass
As part of October Craft Month (Farnham is a World Craft Town) UCA hosted the Shaping Glass exhibition in the James Hockey Gallery in October, which I was lucky enough to see a little before it opened. Below are some quick snaps I took in the gallery.
Light and Shadow
One of the things I miss most about Farnham is living in a bright, sunny apartment. A couple of the last (digital) light play images I shot there.
Home Sense
Golden Age
Light Play
The play of sunlight on the walls in the mornings is fantastic. I took to photographing them on film but haven’t yet gotten the processed film scans, so I started taking them with a digital camera as well. Here are the digital ones.
Spider Web
You might think from all the Welsh posts that we were there for some time, but it was actually only 3 days. Then back home to Farnham where we took a walk in the park and saw several spiders in their webs.
Millennium Centre
Our final cold, rainy day in Wales we took a long walk around the bay, starting at the Wales Millennium Centre and William Pye’s reflective Water Tower, below.
Caerleon
One day we took the train from Cardiff up to Newport where we caught a bus to Caerleon, home to several ancient Roman ruins and one of the primary claimants to be the site of Camelot. We first visited the Roman baths, which were fascinating, though I came away with few useful photographs, then made our way to a small museum, outside of which we visited the “Roman-inspired” garden where these pictures were taken.
Hotel Room View, Welsh Time
Wrestler
The painting above, with embedded video was from an exhibition about a local man who escaped the mines by becoming a flamboyant wrestler. I can’t find any trace of it on the museum’s web site.
We also saw an interesting exhibition called The Valleys, with work by over 60 artists including Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne, photographer Robert Frank, Josef Herman, photographer Bruce Davidson, and Ernest Zobole as well as introducing the work of collier artists and makers including Nicholas Evans, Harry Rodgers and Illtyd David.
Wings
But we also saw live birds here. I was stuck by the white gull in the dark lamppost shadow:
Inequality
The gap between the wealthiest and the poorest has grown to levels not seen in a century.
Perfectly Clear
Alternately, in black and white:
