Throughout May we visited Brighton artists’ open studios at the weekends. At Sarah Shaw‘s studio I was taken by all the collections of old paint tubes, brushes, palettes and other supplies and took several pictures. Sarah held up a window frame used as a palette for one of them.
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My last post under the title Baucus and Philomen simply showed a pair of trees. In the original story the trees were and intertwined oak and linden. Here I’ve managed the intertwining but not the oak or the linden.
Eventually, we got to a very short walking trail at Cap Rock (the light was fading fast) and we could walk around and take pictures at steady speeds.
Before we got to a trail to walk around I was snapping shots out the window of the moving car (I wasn’t driving). Shooting at about 1/250th second I managed to mostly freeze motion in the deep background while still motion-blurring in the near foreground. Some images also show some reflections in the car window. For most of these pictures I opened up the shadows in the foreground and dampened the highlights in the sky. The overall effect is slightly painterly.
Those who have followed this blog for any time know that landscape isn’t my thing but the stark beauty of a place like this could almost convert me.
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