The Brighton and Hove u3a camera photography group went shooting in the Gardens last month and this is one I shot while we were there.
Gull
Tag: Hove
Pointing
Chairs
More work playing with the macro lens and the sunlight on and through plastic furniture.
Hove Flowers
Walking from one Artist Open House to the next in Hove we passed lots of front garden flowers (gladiolus above, purple Jerusalem sage below).
Growth Chart
An amusing gloss on the artists’ own height chart in the next doorway at Studio 28a on our Hove Artists Open Houses tour last month.
Artists’ Tools
One of the pleasures of touring Brighton’s Artists Open Houses each May is seeing the artists’ tools, paints, and brushes and other craft paraphernalia. At Lara Bowen’s studio we saw a set of colour swatches she created in the depths of lockdown, capturing (and labeling) the emotions of those times.
Receding Balustrade
The Artist
Another stop on our tour of Hove Artist Open Houses was the Paul Houlton Studio – he was displaying a lifetime’s worth of work in a variety of styles, capturing much of the 20th century in Western art. Some remarkable work.
Inkpots
To reach Eunju Lee, a South Korean female luthier (last post), we walked through Inkspot Press and saw the screen, relief, letterpress and etching presses, and other paraphernalia.
The Instrument Maker
First day of visiting Artists’ Open Houses in Hove, we stopped at Industrial House where there were several to see. The above image shot in the studio of instrument maker Eunju Lee at Studio Six.
Still Life
May was the month of the Artists Open Houses in Brighton and Hove and we spent our weekends visiting lots of them – too many to remember where each picture was taken. But here’s a table in one of the houses, laid out interestingly enough that I thought it might make a picture.
We ❤️ Shirt
Sunlight on Perspex Chair
Light and Shadow
Another morning I woke up, noticed the light through the blinds falling on the door, glass table top and iPad and ran for my camera with macro lens attached.
Hove Town Hall
Treetop Turbines
Enjoying the Sun
I was photographing the sea from the railing next to this bench, while he watched me. Eventually I told him how I like his ink and asked if I could take his picture. After I showed it to him we had a quick laugh about our spreading middles.
Still Life
Sailboat
Another image from my recce for “dividing the frame” photographs.
Flight of the Langoustine
I’ve photographed Hove Plinth before, but now from a different angle with more sea and the flight of a seagull. I was scouting the viability of this path for a “dividing the frame” group shoot.