Autumn Leaf
Tag: still life
Poppies
Stair
Glasses
I went, with a number of my classmates, to a private view at the new Michaell Hoppen gallery opening in Holland Park a couple of weeks ago, for one of our most interesting lecturers, Ori Gersht. I was struck by the collection of shiny objects at the drinks table.
Bubble
A man was accepting donations in a hat for the large strings of bubbles he was producing.
Nature Morte
Art Imbricated
These planters with sculptural plastic flowers in among the real flowers surrounded the base of one of Chicago’s iconic skyscrapers, the Hancock Building, if I rightly remember.
Barroom Reflections
Glasses
Our last day for roaming the archives, this shot is from September 2009.
Trees and Chairs
In this waltz through the archive of September pictures we’ve now arrived at 2009, a mere 14 years ago. In the course of this archival stroll we’ve advanced from a 5MP digicam to a 6MP DSLR (Konica Minolta 7D) and now to the 12MP Nikon D300. At the time, each one felt an important step, now I find it hard to pay attention to each new year’s technical refinements.
Netting
From September 2008. I just finished reading Teju Cole’s Blind Spot a week or so ago. This feels like the kind of picture that might have been found in that book, though it lacks his mordant, poetic observations.
Overboard
Vesper
Another image from the September archive – this one from September 2006.
Liberty Head, Severed
A symbol for our times? This one’s from September 2006.
Rising Sea Levels?
Not on our walk, it wasn’t
After a tough 7-mile walk we made it back to Guildford and the train station.
Arum
Duplex
This is a slightly disorienting view but it’s no more than the view from the top of a staircase, showing 2 stories of this local gallery.
Chair
Nothing much going on here. I was struck by the sharp shadows and the combination of modernist shapes and lines with the wood grain and plant shadows so, of course, I had to see what it would look like in a photograph.
Flowerbox
A nice thing about Farnham is there are lots of flower boxes all over. I’m no sure who maintains them, I guess the council, but there’s always a profusion of colour everywhere you go. This box is on a little bridge over the River Wey about a block or two from my flat.