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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Stripping Away
It’s frustrating half-remembering things. I read recently (in a book, in a magazine?) of the idea that paintings create a world by building up from nothing on a blank canvas, while photographs start with the real world then strip things … Continue reading
Posted in Land Sea Sky, Travels
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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 6
So, why do people sit about in public spaces? Variously: chatting, eating, reading, sleeping, watching, waiting, working on a laptop, attending to the demands of a mobile phone. Or maybe lost in moments of inner calm and reverie, time off … Continue reading
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North Norfolk Days
Sunday 14th April A10 north to King’s Lynn – fields of rape glowing in the sun against an ashen sky. A149 to the NN coast and through Holm, Thornham and Titchwell. Down to the beach at Brancaster in a chilly … Continue reading
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Blakeney Angels
Panel from a south window in St Nicholas, Blakeney. Gregory’s quote is conveniently shortened, if Wikipedia is to be believed: ‘Non Angli, sed angeli, si forent Christiani.– “They are not Angles, but angels, if they were Christian”. Aphorism, summarizing words … Continue reading
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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 5
Another book of moments (see post 21st March 2019) is People Kissing by Levine and Ramey (Princetown Architectural Press 2019). More active that quiet moments, the sub-title is ‘A Century of Photographs’ and it reveals the shifts in social and … Continue reading
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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 4
Alasdair and I are planning a session for the U3AC Photography Forum loosely titled ‘Alternative Photography’. The aim is to get people to play, experiment and have photographic fun, by using film, for example. So, I loaded an Olympus Trip … Continue reading
Everything I Ever Learnt
DaveH got to see Everything I Ever Learnt before I did. He commented: ‘Was rather disappointed. Maybe that because I am a Philistine! The quality of printing did not help but I rebel against out of focus images and poor … Continue reading
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Take a Seat – Take a Moment 3
Black+White Photography magazine runs a regular feature, ‘Smart Guide to Photography’. It concentrates on still lives and other static subjects and rarely ventures out onto the street. The helpful advice at expertphotography.com/smartphone-street-photography-tips/ shows that B+W is missing something. I don’t … Continue reading
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