Monthly Archives: September 2024

Shutter Hub: Your Lens Your Truth 2

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Brian

I mentioned Shutter Hub’s call for submissions on this subject on 24th May. I submitted these pictures with associated text. My lens has captured three images that are what has been described as ‘the precise and lucid description of significant … Continue reading →

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Little Pleasures

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Brian

To see Little Pleasures at the ARB, Cambridge, yesterday.  The web site says: Little Pleasures is an exhibition by [eleven] artists from Los Angeles and Cambridge. So often we yearn for large pleasures that are hugely desirable, expensive and often … Continue reading →

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Journey Round My Room

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Brian

Despite the comments made in my post on 11th September, the Journey Round my Room project is now complete and I’ve made it into a photo book.  The introduction sets out some background and what I have tried to achieve. … Continue reading →

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Leckhampton Hill

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Brian
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Only Colour: Leckhampton Yellow

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Brian
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Scuplture

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Brian

2024 Exhibition at the Cotswold Sculpture Park, Summerford Keynes, 21st September 2024.

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Venus of Ostia

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Brian

Venus, AD 1-200, Roman, marble; Royal Academy. ‘A heavy cloak has slipped from the goddess of love’s shoulders and clings precariously to her hips.  Some people think that this sculpture was inspired by statues of Aphrodite by the renowned Athenian … Continue reading →

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What makes a great photograph?

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Brian

This was a question put to Mark Haworth-Booth at his curator talk at the Stapleford Granary last Saturday (see previous post).  He replied that, ‘It works if it affects you’; and used the extremes of work by Ansel Adams and … Continue reading →

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Philip Larkin

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Brian

Would the photographs exhibited at Stapleford Granary from 12th – 24th September get a showing if they were by an unknown Philip Smith of Walsall instead of by Philip Larkin, one of the pre-eminent 20th Century poets?  Almost certainly not.  … Continue reading →

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Balzano’s

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Brian

Friday morning at Balzano’s.

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Mining the Diaries 19a: France 1990

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Brian

Another trip that escaped the initial trawl of my diaries. Maison St Antoine, Marcoussis, Paris, 10th February 1990 Here with David W.  David then taught at The Manor in Wilburton, a residential school catering for children with special educational needs. … Continue reading →

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My Room

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Brian

I’m reading On Instagram – David Hurn (Reel Art Press 2024) – lots of fine photographs and valuable insights.  He writes about a lock-down project to photograph his house.  I’ve just finished my ‘Journey Round My Room’ project, in the … Continue reading →

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Venus of Villetaneuse

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Brian

Venus of Villetaneuse, 1962, Cesar (César Baldaccini), iron; Sainsbury Collection, University of East Anglia.

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Mining the Diaries 19a France 1989

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Brian

Something I missed from my initial digging in the diary mine. 31st March 1989 To Boulogne with David W.  Good day.  Much fog in Channel; sea dead calm. That’s all there is, plus a ticket showing we travelled by P&O … Continue reading →

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Micro-Essays – Kathleen Jamie

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Brian

Now reading Cairn by Kathleen Jamie.  Near the end of ‘Prologue’ she says: ‘I was writing again but in a different way, making short pieces, micro-essays, pages, call them what you will.  Like the local stone here, they fractured easily.  … Continue reading →

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