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Tag Archives: inspiration
A Little Inspiration. CB
Although this video of Michael “Nick” Nichols setting up a camera trap for tigers is from a few years ago, I was reminded while watching it of just how much work goes into a shot sometimes and the joy that … Continue reading
Pure inspiration – the work of a master. PHD
Intimate Portraits of the Colorado Plateau by Guy Tal One of the things I do when returning to the UK is make a quick visual survey of a newsagent’s magazine rack in the forlorn hope that there might be something … Continue reading
An Italian Christmas Carol…without too many ghosts. PHD
For all too few years of my life I was on the Christmas list of an incredible human being – a gay, Jewish, atheist New Yorker (clearly, somebody going for all the Boy Scout Badges) who, as an antidote to … Continue reading
Inspiration. NB.
I like to call myself a writer, as well as a photographer. And having now published about half a million words of articles and books, I feel more comfortable making that claim than I did 10 years ago. But, of … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Caledonia project, inspiration, nature writing, Orion, Orion Society, Pete Cairns
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Recurring themes. AP
It is always a benefit when engaged as we are in a creative business, to have honest and occasionally critical feedback of our work. Such critiqueing is for me at least invariably within the (assumed) remit of my wife Claire who … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged appraisal, BBC Wildlife, Claire, feedback, great spotted woodpecker, honesty, inspiration, Niall Benvie, silver birch, wife
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Tales from a honeypot – another one! AP.
In the light of Niall’s recent post on the ‘Vivaldi-isation’ I have, due to its topical nature, brought forward a post from one such honeypot site, Gigrin farm in Mid Wales. For those of you with suspicious minds, no this … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Parkinson, creative, Gigrin, imagination, inspiration, marginal, Mid Wales, Niall Benvie, Photographers, red kites, snow, Vivaldi-isation, winter
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Book Offer – Photographing Plants & Flowers by Paul Harcourt Davies
I’ve just come back from a 300m amble down our track to where our large letter box sits. where I found a letter from Anova books who handle one of my titles. There is an offer of limited surplus stock … Continue reading
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Tagged art, book, flowers, image manipulation, inspiration, Paul Harcourt Davies, photography, techniques, travel
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Inspiration or plagiarism? AP.
As an enthusiastic and passionate wildlife photographer it is often the case that if I am not actually outside taking images, or stuck at my computer processing them, there is a good chance that I will be looking at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Parkinson, coast, creativity, Danny Green, grey seals, ideas, inspiration, Lincolnshire, Pete Cairns, plagiarism, waves
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A foreigner in two lands. PHD
I realised a few days ago that I had not written a blog entry for a while because of the visit to the UK to meet new grand daughter Orlaith and spend time with her 20 month old sister Tallulah…who … Continue reading →