In the middle of Eaton Park is a colonnaded pavilion with a domed bandstand at its centre. Surrounding the bandstand are circular rows of seating. I photographed one section, and as you can see, I repositioned a section of it. I was interested in swirling the seating to go off and beyond, creating a sympathetic composition. On a whim I put the engineer who was fixing a CCTV on Barn Rd., into the middle of the arena. Why?.. he just looked good being there, and gives the picture a focus. And a title. I think it’s beautiful!
Subject: Coastal
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Untitled No.28
Brisbane. What a wonderful city. There is a river taxi that zigzags up the Brisbane River, but I can’t remember how far it goes. Anyway, this is one of the many luxury apartments on the river front, I took the photograph at this angle from the boat, as you do… The blue water piping was laying in a field near East Dereham (ref. Abstract No.6). It took a very long time to isolate the pipe from its background, i.e. the muddy embankment. Once again the two items were married after a lot of experimenting. I filtered the buildings and sky, to blend in with the pipe.
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Evening Stars
The composition started with the paper illuminated stars hanging in the Reindeer public house. I liked them, so photographed them. I liked the candles arranged on the mantlepiece of a blocked off fireplace, in the back bar of the Plough P.H. I rearranged and added to, the stars, but kept the candles as they were presented. I used the line candles as a base for the image. The wonderful sunset was witnessed by some members of my family when we were in Australia. We had just buried my brother Barrie who had passed away, September 2018. We had a little picnic and a drink to watch the sun going down. Of course my brother was a STAR…I miss you X
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Time And Tide
More pictures from the triathlon event. These guys were in the water before the start of the race. I thought it would be unusual to place them on a beach in Queensland, in a small estuary, with the tide out. The alarm clock sits on my bedside locker. The title was obvious.
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Head Start
Two sets of rowers on the same river, in Norwich, and a beach near Yarmouth, the rest, as they say, is academic. Of course I put the lone oarsman on the support of a groyne and its red metal marker. I created his shadow accordingly. I laugh at the preposterous image presented, but I am surprised, how, I come about such pictures.
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Stop Rocking The Chair
The stunning landscape is in the north west of Tasmania. The chair was in the grounds of a motel in Lusaka, Zambia. The arm belongs to a girl called Kate (from Canada), who I haven’t seen since I met her, the once, in a Norwich pub! The guy playing the guitar, was busking on Gentlemans Walk, Norwich.
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Time Running Out
I thought of the idea last thing one night, and did it the next day. It is the landscape that makes the image. Once again somewhere in Tasmania. The clock is on my wall, but I changed the surround, because it is chrome and was reflecting me and the room. The reflection on the the glass is a beach scene, just west of Cromer. I wrote tempus fugit on the clockface.
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Props And Trails.
There is a wind farm just off the Great Yarmouth beach, called Scroby Sands. I have concentrated five or six seperate shots to realise the vista. The beach is at Cromer, and the vapour trails were drawn with a Wacom tablet pen. If you notice the sky, it’s gradated from right to left, to accentuate the light direction.