I am going to keep this short and sweet here as we are on our third heatwave this year with more to come. I cannot stand the heat in the computer room as it makes the effort of editing and creating, too hard. Also it was far too hot to photograph flowers as we normally do in the small home studio. So nothing to show this month. Apologies then for this and the very lateness of the blog this month. I shall try to do better next month.
Roll on winter.
I noticed near some scrubland borders near a NHS building was a few sad looking plants that were starting to go over, but worth a photo. I am not sure what flowers they are, but they came out alright in the mix and worthy of a place on the website.
Amy and I have been at it with the chiffon scarves, shaking them in front of the lens to get some results. There is a lot of red going on, so I chose four of the best to display with only two going onto the final gallery.
Here are two locations I have been meaning to shoot at for some time. One is a side staircase up to our local ASDA . The pictures of which have turned out quite well. The other is a square Church in the town that I had never realised was no longer in use. Sadly a close inspection of the place show the signs of undebatable with weeds growing on the path, That and a broken pane of glass. Shame it is a nice building.
Just a few abstracts of a kettle, microwave that I have since disposed of because it was crap. The inside of James taxi and the cutty drainer in the kitchen, So a mixed bag of nothings for you.
Model; Maryna Sedin
Music; Remind Me – Patrice Rushen
This month we got back the lovely Maryna Sedin for a fifth time. The themes for this shoot include spoon jewellery in ear rings and necklace with assistance from my Father and his friend Alan for drilling the holes in the spoons. Batman was the final theme with Maryna wearing a mask and her ever so long legs on display. So thanks then to all who were there. To Maryna Sedin and Shadrine at Kavour Beauty. Phil Lynam at The Boardroom Studio in Derby and my dear wife Amy for all their hard work.
Apologies for it being a short one this month, its just the heat is crippling me.
Be sure to come back next month for more I hope …. weather permitting.
Bye x
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This month I am very proud to share with you all a very charming lady's wonderful garden, she and her husband tend to James to me all the way to the outskirts of Derby to see and capture Mary’s Summer Garden, and I am happy to show you the results today.
Miss Ivory Flame came back to the studio this month for her second shoot with the team and I with a David Bowie inspired space woman shoot. Take a look. Due to the hot weather we have been having it has taken me twice as long to edit these and Mary’s Gardens pictures. It was unbearable in the computer room with sweat pouring off me. I took my time and in short doses.
And we still have not moved. Its like an endless game of backwards and forwards between my landlady and the Council. Due to the law changing at the start of May, the landlady has had to grant us another four months grace to move on. So that takes us up to September And I doubt the council will do anything in a hurry as that is the way of things with a country in a housing crisis. Oh well …. Watch this space.
Its Amy and I'thirty eighth wedding anniversary this June. We have been together a long time. She looks after me and I love her. I could not be without her. Leave it at that. Just thank you Amy for all you have put up with.
So enjoy the blog this month and see you again soon
x
Music 'Tremulous' Anthony Phillips
My friend and studio owner Phil Lynam arranged it for me to come and photograph his in-laws house and garden. So on a bright day in mid May we set off the a small village outside of Derby to capture what we find there. We were greeted by a very warm and friendly Mary who was tending the garden as the taxi arrived. She was very welcoming and happy for me to wander around her spacious garden, taking as many shots as I may. It was great. A day well spent and a journey worth the time. I only hope my pictures do the garden justice and would wish to thank Mary and her husband for letting me in to their property. Thanks also to Phil for arranging the shoot and James for taking me there and back so efficiently and in comfort.
This might stir up some controversy. These images are for the other site and will be out on a new page called Porcelain Gods. The pictures are of a polystyrene head with the bag still on it that it came wrapped in. The moody lighting is simply my front room tungsten lights give it an eerie feel. Amy says they look like someone who has committed suicide, but that's not the intention and should never be taken as.
What do you think?
Red apples and a hesyan sack on a wooden top is the view captues here. Edited in Photoshop to hopefully give an antique finish to them.
Ivory Flame returned for a second shoot and it was another off the wall, creative day again. I had long wanted to recreate (in the style of) a closing scene in the Ashes To Ashes music video by David Bowie. To make it work we needed the right model and lots of coiled black conduit which we purchased from Amazon. And it worked. Yes it does not exactly look the same, but it is the style of which is close enough. Also there are some images inspired by a Joker Doll I liked the look of on a Batman comic. In some of the variations you can see kitchen units attach to the pictures.
Why?
The idea is to get the viewer to look twice at the pictures and kitchen units are the opposite to the freaky portraits. A bit of a sublime to the ridicules if you follow.
There is also a stand alone image called Temptation where Ivory Flame is stuck in the middle of a good version of her and a bad version of her. Both whispering into her ear.
I hope you like them.
Thanks then go to model Ivory Flame, to Shadrine at Kavour Beauty. Phil Lynam at The Boardroom Studio in Derby and my dear wife Amy for all their hard work.
Just a few abstracts of some bicycle stands at my local hospital and some taken of a cut out house I made over thirty years ago when it was in a magazine, I have kept it ever since … funny how we get attached to some things and never get rid of,
Amy came home recently and told me about some poppies that had been growing out of the pavement cracks near the RSPCA Charity shop. So the next day we set off down there and took some snaps. I like poppies. I like especially the delicateness of them. It was a windy and sunny day, but with a faster shutter speed and using Amy as a wind shield, I think we got some good stuff.
I have used the pictures here in several sections including I.C.M. , still life, flowers update and a few others.
We obtained some great flowers again from the florist, one of them being this big one whose name I cannot remember, that has a large white, delicate head on it. I like photographing it from below as that is just as interesting than the above view. There are also a few poppy ones thrown in for good measure as I mentioned before thanks as always to Chris and the ladies at he Bramblesrist and Flowers to yours and Amy for her arranging and help.
That is it again for this month, be sure to come back and see something new again soon at the end of this month.
Bye xx
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It is good to be back taking pictures of the flowers again, but tinged with a bit of sadness. At the florists that provide me with the beautiful flowers each month has lost a member of the staff. Her name is Nina and she always managed to greet me with a warm smile and polite, welcoming hello. Sadly Nina passed away a few weeks ago unexpected, leaving behind a husband and family. She will be missed by them and her colleagues at the Brambles Florist. She was good people. Life can often be cruel and arbitrary at times.
Sleep well Nina. X
We still have not moved house yet and last time I checked it was still all up in the air. I wish it would be over as we need to do it and move on with our lives. We have been here over eighteen years, but we are resolved to the fact that we must go. Its just all the waiting that gets me down.
There is a shoot coming up at the studio in May with model Ivory Flame based on a style of weird images I drew suspiration from the David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes. I am really looking forward to this as it pushes the envelope a bit further for me creatively.
Thats it for this month. Short and sweet this time. Please enjoy this monthes blog and come back next Month.
For Nina.
X
I photographed a small porcelain doll with no arms and legs just with available room light. The images were taken in mind for a fashion shoot I have planned in early May time with model Ivory Flame. So more of that next month. I liked the outcome of these snaps and so decided to use them for some off the wall, creepy pictures set for the other site.
In what would have been another quiet month we got around to doing some more I.C.M. Images for the Hush gallery. I love making these abstract pieces of art, but they take a lot of images to find the best ones. I do hope we got this months pictures right?
Model: Yoo Yoo
Music: Soup For One (Remixed) – Chic
