This is musician Anna Neale at work, composing and recording using a very clever Alesis iO Dock with the GarageBand app on her iPod!
And I’m at work, photographing Anna for her marketing material! I really enjoy working with Anna and a several other musical friends. The whole creative process is great fun when you can bounce ideas around with other like-minded artists! There’s often tea and cake too 🙂
Here are a few other examples of Anna and I working together!
Wordless Wednesday: A Spring In His Step
Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
A Three Picture Story: The Setting Of Sculptures
One of the things that I love most about Henry Moore sculptures is that they were made to work in concert with the outdoors.
The original design for King and Queen was made in 1952 and several sculptures were cast between 1952 and 53. One is now on display outside the RHS Wisley Laboratory, overlooking the Canal. The sculpture will be in the garden until the end of September 2014.
“Whilst manipulating a piece of this wax, it began to look like a horned, Pan-like, bearded head. Then it grew a crown and I recognised it immediately as the head of a king. I added a second figure to it and it became a ‘King and Queen’. I realise now that it was because I was reading stories to Mary, my six year old daughter, every night, and most of them were about kings and queens and princesses . . . ” Henry Moore
The setting for any sculpture brings added meaning to the piece, it influences the way we experience it. Set here in these beautiful grounds they have become, for me, an Oberon and Titania. I imagine them coming alive when all visitors have gone and dancing through their garden realm, rejoicing in the fauna and flora, hastening on the arrival of Spring.
“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place”
Titania – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
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Wordless Wednesday: Snowflake (Leucojum vernum AGM)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
There are many things in life that I treasure but my heart truly belongs to Simon. He is precious beyond measure to me!
We both thoroughly treasure the time we get to spend together, each year, on the beautiful Greek island of Kos.
Kos itself is full of treasures, historical and natural. I thought I’d use this week’s challenge to show you just a few of these from our 2012 holiday!
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Confession time!!! In 2012, on our first holiday to Kos, Simon took me for a wonderfully romantic, moonlit dinner on the harbour front in Kardamena.
However, the photographer in me interrupted our meal before it was half-way through, grabbed her kit and tripod and dashed over the road deserting her long-suffering partner!
So, shamed as I am, I did get this rather lovely shot of the golden moon rising above the bay, it’s reflections mingling with those of a night-fishing boat.
I dedicate this one to you, my darling Simon. Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂
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I thought it would make a nice change to share a photo of a British butterfly! This is a Yellow Brimstone that I photographed at RHS Wisley Gardens last Summer.
They’re fabulous little butterflies with petal shaped wings and ruby-red eyes. It’s nice to think of Summer and warmer days during this long, wet winter!
Here are some more butterflies and yellow flowers from that Summer’s day to warm everyone’s spirits!
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie
This week’s challenge theme prompted me to revisit a piece I started working on a couple of years ago. I had put it aside about a year ago as I felt I was starting to overwork it.
When I opened it up again in Photoshop I could clearly see that I’d overcomplicated the composition with far too many unnecessary elements. Sometimes less is more! I wanted to leave an air of mystery to the piece.
I really enjoy creating portrait montages with a surreal/fantasy undertone. I have a series of self portraits that I call Dreamscapes and this is number five in the series “Moonstruck”.
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Modern headshots and creative portraits for business and the performing arts.
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Photographic diary of flora and fauna in the United Kingdom. Written by paulfarnfield.com
NATUR - HIGHLIGHTS - SÃœDSTEIERMARK - KUNST trifft NATUR
Birds, Animals, the Occasional Dash of Whimsy and lots of Pictures.
by Sam Allen
Taking One Day At A Time 