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From The Photographers’ Gallery we moved on to Gagosian to see the powerful Tyler Mitchell Chrysalis exhibit. You can faintly see my reflection layered above my classmate in the window in front of the photographs on the gallery wall.

Killip Reflection

Our next stop was the excellent Chris Killip retrospective exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery. I noticed the reflections of the other passersby in this frame and sat a while, waiting for someone to inhabit the right spot in the reflection. Alas, I cut off the upper image unthinkingly.

Windows

Our first stop in London was to see a very moving exhibit at Hammersmith Hospital, from an instructor we’ll have on our course next year, Sunil Gupta. I took a few shots out of some incongruous window vistas. Then we walked to the East Acton tube station to get to our next gallery and I shot the window in the upper right corner through a long perspex (lucite) corridor. Click any image to see them all full size (but not if you’re viewing this in an email – you must click through to obBLOGato.

Displaced Shadow

Basil

I woke early, thinking about a photo project I’ve been returning to, based on Ezra Pound’s famous haiku. I slipped up to the living room attempting not to disturb my sleeping spouse and saw the security light in the street below shining through the frost on the window and silhouetting the basil plant on the sill. I grabbed my tripod and took a few pictures at different distances and heights, this one at 1.3 seconds at f2.8 (and the Fuji base ISO of 160). It looks a little zen, no?

Autumn Shine

I’m not sure this quite conveys the quality of light – the leaves were glowing golden and the shopping carts shining silvery in the late afternoon sun. I stopped quickly and shot a few frames, trying to capture the brightness of the scene.

Autumn Leaf Bouquet

I had already passed by this woman when it registered that the bouquet she was holding was made up not of flowers but of Autumn leaves. I asked her if I could take her picture with the leaves an she agreed. We chatted very briefly about how beautiful they were and I asked her if they were for a project and she said yes. Then I was on my way.

Farnham Sunset

There’s a communal terrace on my block of flats (apartment building) and noticing a beautiful sunset out the window one evening I headed there to capture the sight. The top image was created using in-camera panoramic stitching.

Drawing a Rainbow

Systems

Among the subjects we’re studying in our Critical Perspectives class is something called variously Systems Thinking or Systems Art.

Passing out of the library one day I saw this half-completed jigsaw puzzle on a table and immediately thought, “systems”!

Tree and Wall

Not quite the strength of my tree portraits in the NYC urban setting, but still interesting enough for an ephemeral blog post, I think.

Foggy Morning

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Guess Where?

Autumn Churchyard

This churchyard is particularly lovely in the Autumn and I feel compelled to try and capture it every time I pass.

Weather-vane

Portrait

As part of our photography course we were inducted into the mysteries of studio lighting. My classmate Kota graciously allowed me to use this shot I took testing my flash meter use and ability to trigger the Bowens light from the transmitter atop my camera.

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