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The Garden
This is the last installment (for now) of images inspired by Jim Roche’s Substack on John Gossage’s The Pond.
On the side street there’s a gate leading into the abandoned and overgrown garden. Once I went in and took a picture or two. On this occasion I discovered it had been secured with a thin twist of metal ribbon. I considered removing it temporarily, but decided to honour someone’s property rights and instead photographed at various angles and over the wall.
‘Round the Back
I continue to explore the house at the corner, following on from the last two days’ posts. After passing the side, I had a brief view over an ivied wall, of the back of the building, giving on to the garden.
One thing I did before shooting was switch the camera to shoot in Fujifilm ACROS, a rich black and white film stock – I was trying to get a full range of tones (of course, I was shooting raw, so all the colour information was captured but it was helpful to visualise it in B&W right through the viewfinder.
to be continued…
Around the corner
Continuing from yesterday’s post about photographing close to home à la John Gossage, as described in Jim Roche’s post on The Pond, I walked around the corner from the front of the house, shown in yesterday’s post, to this view from the corner. The property is massively overgrown, reminding me of how the Pevensie children first returned to Narnia, only to find that time moved so much more quickly there that familiar places were scarcely recognisable.
Peering through the dense foliage, one can still catch a glimpse of the building.
to be continued…
Still Life
I bought an inexpensive bouquet of flowers at the supermarket several days ago. The buds have opened up and blossomed beautifully, to the point of insisting I photograph them.
Swim
Not sure what attracted me to this scene… perhaps the contrasting colours of the orange (or chrome yellow?) banner and the aqua see behind.
Fringe Elements
Save the Date! The Brighton Photo Fringe is coming from 2nd – 31st October. As a member of the Fringe Elements collective, we’re hoping to display our work on the 6 advertising hoardings shown above and below. I plan to take up 2 of the posters in a single hoarding with work from my project, Neither Here nor There. Watch this space for more details as they become available.
Portrait in Orange
As I passed this couple I couldn’t help notice their bright orange shirts. At the time I was working on a presentation for my photography group about colour and thinking about one type of colour image where a single colour pops out from an image. I walked back, complimented them on their incredibly bright orange shirts and asked if I could take their picture. This is one of 2 shots I quickly snapped before showing it to them and running on to my appointment.
Happy
I was walking along, camera in hand, after a beach walk when the car pulled up and they started shouting at me. What did they want? To have their picture taken. Then they drove off and I continued on my way.
Memento Mori
Dusk
Water Shadow
After the Courtauld we sat in the Somerset House courtyard for a while, enjoying the sun and some sparkling water, shown here, casting interesting shadows.
Hepworth
We went to see Hepworth in Colour a couple of weeks ago at the Courtauld Gallery. I was not truly familiar with her work but these were stunning pieces, abstractly illustrating many of the principles of composition and design that I have been discussing with my u3a photography group. Highly recommended if you’re in or near London. When we were finished we emerged into the Courtauld’s permanent collection and a seriously sumptuous collection of some marvelous and familiar Impressionist works.
Courtauld Staircase
Everyone who visits must take a picture like this but it’s seemingly impossible not to when you havea camera in your hand and are confronted by the sight.
Light Falling, Plastic Chair
More Sunlight
Continuing with another image of sunlight falling and dispersing on the wall, for a series I’ve been building over the last several years.
Sunset at the Pier
The eclipse was totally done by this point but the light was golden.
Eclipse Portrait
Another eclipse viewer we met on the pier, chatting and shooting pictures of it with his digicam. A quick portrait I shot of him after I’d dismantled my camera, tripod, ND filter, and reverted to my 16-55mm walking around lens.
Eclipse’s End
Walking down the pier as the eclipse ended, I grabbed this westward snapshot of the setting sun and West Pier, unencumbered by the moon.
Eclipse
A collage of images I shot from the Brighton Palace Pier, the evening of August 12th. We got 91% of a total solar eclipse. The images were shot through an ND filter, mostly at 1/1000th second at f/7. There was a festive atmosphere on the pier with families and children and the sharing of eclipse sunglasses.