Rachel and I are currently on a short holiday in a rural part of Nottinghamshire and near the artist’s studio, mentioned in the last post, is a house in slight disrepair and an overgrown garden. I struck up conversation with the elderly owner who was outside with his gorgeous golden retriever dogs. After 20 mins […]
We’ve taken a mini break and thanks to a fellow IG photographer we’ve come to the Pump House Art Studio in Misterton. Kerry had taken some lovely pictures of the studio from the outside whilst on a walk and we decided to check it out. We found it was on Sykes Cottages and it looked
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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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