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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Creative flux. Erwin Christis
All photos in this post © Erwin Christis 2010 As a photographer, as a creative being in general, it is sometimes good – even necessary – to poke the Muses so they don’t fall asleep. A good method for this … Continue reading
Posted in Guest photographers
Tagged blur, definition, Erwin Christis, impression, motion, personal interpretation, Ted Leeming, William Neill
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Blackbirds again. AP
It never ceases to amaze and surprise me just how much the play of light can affect how we perceive things. On Sunday I awakened again to the delightful site of a landscape covered in snow, most pleasing because it … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged behaviour, Blackbirds, different, fresh, house sparrow, light, new, re-visiting, re-working, repetition, robin, snow, song thrush, varied, winter
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Seeing a way through (2005) NB
Sometimes we need to move back a little from the screen to see the picture more clearly.
That’s not an otter! AP
Another week and I’m still scratching around in the ‘cold spell’ drawer, this time it is a friendly neighbourhood song thrush (with a limp!), that dropped in for a bit of free food. My excuse however for this barely topical … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged Andrew Parkinson, blizzard, campervan, cold, discomfort, great northern diver, grey heron, Isle of Mull, limp, otters, Scotland, song thrush, swine flu, winter
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The Joy of discoveries: trying not to grow up. PHD
Tradition has it that on Saint Valentine’s day birds cavort and form their trysts for the coming season. The morning of February 14th I awoke to songs of robin, blackcap and irascible wren with a flurry of goldfinches and bramblings … Continue reading
Originality and courtesy. NB.
I think all of us wish for our photographs to be admired and the ability to get ourselves into the right place praised. This is perhaps why time after time I see pictures in print from well-known locations where the … Continue reading
Living in the past. NB.
No, not Jethro Tull’s 1972 “Living in the Past“ but rather my own growing tendency to shift the look of my pictures from the here and now to somewhere at a distance from the actual experience. And it may be an … Continue reading
Nature’s curves. AP.
There are so many inspiring shapes and patterns in nature but one that I am frequently drawn back to again and again is the occasionally curvaceous sweep of a swan’s neck. Though I had tried diligently to frame this accurately out … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged Andrew Parkinson, blizzard, cold spell, composition, curvaceous, mute swan, post processing, snow fall, sweep
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Biodiversity begins at home: a call for field studio photographers. NB
I’m excited to announce the launch of a new project I’m running in conjunction with American conservation photographer and designer, Clay Bolt, called Meet Your Neighbours. Please read on as you might become part of it too! Common neighbourhood plants … Continue reading
To everything turn, turn, turn, PHD
As a teenager in the sixties, for whom rock was a religion, I was astonished to discover that the words to the Byrd’s song “Turn, Turn, Turn” were neither theirs nor Bob Dylan’s. “To every thing (turn, turn, turn) there … Continue reading →