It was through the Frames photography circle that I came across this highly instructive video where Sam Abell talks about composition. In a fascinating frame-by-frame presentation, Abell deconstructs both his well-known and recent images—all with the idea of examining the idea that there is a clear ‘way’ of making finer photographs. In addition, he shows […]
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Decided to head out to Gormire Lake yesterday afternoon. I’d driven past, located as it is at the bottom of Sutton Bank, several times in recent weeks and thought it would be good to revisit. As usual there was a cold wind, despite being sunny, and it was good to start dropping the steep and
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A group excursion today with friends to a local North York Moors dale where we’d been told there was a large rock worth seeing! It was bitingly chilly as we set off and I regretted not bringing a hat – luckily our guide and local history expert Phil had a spare. The first point of
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Yes another, it doesn’t seem to have stopped raining since the New Year. The fields are sodden and walks always involve wading through puddles – the farmers are in despair! So an afternoon inside – chores done (well most …) so I grabbed some lights and fading blooms to have a play. I think the
Another post based on Pat Kay’s Visual Patterns – this time Leading Lines. Here’s his video: I must admit I’m not terribly excited about this one – perhaps because they are a bit obvious. Scrolling Instagram there are so many shadowy figures in narrow beams of light between city buildings – Pat gives this as
Yesterday I took this image of some silage bales. There being two contrasting colours of plastic covering I wondered whether it might work as a black and white. However, when I edited it I stuck with colour, the green feel befitted the moody weather. But I felt there was more to explore from these rather
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Following on from a post I did earlier about framing, after being inspired by Pat Kay’s series on Visual Patterns, the next one to look at is ‘negative space’. Here’s his video: He describes negative space as ’empty as opposed to filled’ space. Quite coincidentally I found myself creating some images with negative space by
Some stuffed birds came into my possession (if only briefly) via my brother-in-law who is helping to sort his Dad’s house. When I heard they were on their way to the local auctioneers I grabbed them thinking they might make a an interesting photo challenge. They’re pretty dusty and tatty but I’ve had a fun
