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Still Life Update

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This month I did manage to do some still life stuff, some of which were left over unedited from September. These are all of vegetables and past their best flowers. As always thank you to Amy for her help.

Still Life Update

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This months Still Life images feature the dried up and dying stills from last months flower pictures. I like the quality and textures of decay. As much as rust can look great colour wise on an old piece of iron, so decay, like Autumn, can throw up beautiful hues.

Still Life Update

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There is a bit of a fruity feeling to this selection of Still Lifes. Amy and I set the camera up to take a snap of one of my fathers big tomatoes. Then giving it a highly saturated look in photoshop..The tomato was taken using only natural light and textured wallpaper as it backdrop.

Here also are snaps of pairs and a vine of tomatoes, once again made to look more in your face with colour and loosely inspired by Andy Warhol's pop art pictures of Marilyn Monroe and the such.

Project – 'Abstract' Update

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Abstracts taken mostly in my parents downstairs toilet, as well as a prop from the Boardroom Studio in Derby. Can you guess what they are?

Project – 'Architectural Metaphor ' Update

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Just a few of the back end of Beckworth Emporium (the place with the spaghetti ice cream to die for) in the garden centre bit with an angry looking sky behind it.

Still Life Update

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In this months Still Life there are a mixture of fruits and vegetables like sweet potatoes and cherry's with satsumas. Most of the images have a distressed overlay given to them to make the impression of an old appearance to them. There is also the Arum lily from Junes flower shoot in a vase, interesting I think because of the kink in its stem. I shall hopefully do some more this next month.

Digital Art – Update

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This months Digital art based picture is an odd one. I made what supposed to be a ghostly face using the bottom of the drinks holder from McDonalds. I normally get a milkshake on a Saturday as a bit of a treat and because we have to carry them, the staff give us a double cardboard holder to put them in. If you turn it upside down and look at it, it can look like something out of a horror movie. So adding 'Monster lighting' from below and a textured overlay in Photoshop, I made the picture..

Its not really scary like a picture of something demonic or a life sized picture of my fat hairy arse, but its a close enough.

Project – 'Abstract'

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Here are a few bits and bobs I photographed around the place in an abstract manner. Most of them should not be too hard to guess. There is one odd one, think Dr. Who and the …. to get it.

Please enjoy.

July Flower Updates

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Highlights of this month in flowers would be the very delicate and extraordinary lovely 'Love in the mist' I was told its proper name, but forgot it in all the excitement. Its almost impossible to take a bad picture of the flower. But it was not the only great flower we were given by our friends at Brambles Florist this month. Check them out !

So its another big thanks then to our friends Chris and the ladies at the Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. For all their help this month As well as a mention also to Amy for her assistance.

That is it for now. Be sure to tune back at the end of August for another update.

Take care of yourselves.

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June Flower Updates

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Got some lovely flowers last month from our friends at the florist, as well as providing me with the rolls of wrapping paper to build the paper dress for the Maryna Sedin Shoot. There is an arum lily which is part of the onion family which has this unusual flower. In most cases the flower is round and looks like a purple daisy, but this is different. It also comes with a really interesting 'kink' in its stem that sets it apart this month. Notice also the white images for the black and white section are a greenish colour? I thought I might try something else out this month, because my new computer still does not have some of the old Photoshop presets on it, I have experimented with one of the pre=loaded ones and got this greenish result. I quite like it, so here for this month is an off white black and whites.

Thanks then to our friends Chris and the ladies at the Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. For all their help this month with everything and a mention also to Amy for her assistance.

So that’s it for this month, be sure to tune back at the end of July for another update.

Take care of yourselves.

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Digital Art – Update

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These four digital art images are of Munira Model taken at our second shoot with her (more below). The original versions were blurred because I screwed up and used the wrong lens on the camera. Still not the end of the world when you can do some digital manage on them and make them look reasonable again. I know I am giving the game away here, but you only learn by your mistakes.

Still Life – Update

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We have been doing a few still life jobs this month, all in different styles of finish.

Many of them are bulbs with a lot of root search out for water and a home. Others are dried flowers and odd things like past it sell by date vegetables, gone to seed/ Fresh fruit for rotting veg as the punk band The Dead Kennedys once sang about it, but it would be nice to see one day, one of these images hanging from a gallery wall … I would be happy to make do with an outdoor privy … its a start.

Still Life – Update

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Yet again just a few still life images for this month, but something is better than nothing. I photographed some polystyrene hands using only room light which was a bit shitty really but it can give an interesting feel to the pictures if done right. So only three of them this month and very arty farty they are too!.

Digital Art Update

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Only a one off offering this month with a still from Decembers shoot with Mercybongo at The Boardroom Studio in Derby. I used a lot of bokeh in the picture which is what I did many moons ago with some of the old flower shots that can be seen on the website. Its a good way to hide empty spaces?

Still Life – Update

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Just a few still life images for this month. This was a flower given to us by Brambles Florist that had a very interesting stalk. They on there own were worth a set of pictures I thought and have turned out okay I think.

January 2024 Flower Updates

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Start the year as you mean to go on with some great flowers to work with from our friends at . Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours. The quality of their flowers is always tip top and I am very much reliant upon them for their help. So thank you to Chris and the ladies at Brambles and Flowers To Yours. A thank you also to Amy for her help taking the pictures in our home studio (outhouse).

That is it for this month. Thanks for coming back to see us and hope you drop by again at the end of February.

Bye x

Digital Art - Update

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Turn back the clock to Novembers blog when I spoke about a shoot I did in the Boardroom Studio and Zavod Studio on the same day? One was with tattooed model Izzy Holliday a recreation of a panel from a graphic novel called 'Judgement On Gotham' (Judge Dredd vs Batman) where Judge Death is being tormented by his fears (Cuddly toys) With Izzy we also made a pictures with Izzy kicking a vending machine in Death Valley. picture is called 'Shit ! …. and I came all this way …?' Notice the child's tricycle and UFO's above. So who has come all this way?

Check out also pictures of taken of Xenia Model in the Debbie Harry 'Koo Koo' inspired LP, shot in her Zavod Studio in Sheffield/.The pins through her face were created by using knitting needles and added to the portrait in post production (Photoshop) edit As well as a simple portrait that stops and makes you look twice … asking what is wrong with this picture? There is also a one of digital creation featuring Mercybongo. That I will go into in the shoot section below.

Still Life – Update

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A few still life pictures for you all. I was inspired by something I viewed on Instagram of a still life using pears. I could not stop going back to it and studying the way it looked, light, angle, grain and colour. So then I wanted to do one for myself only better if I can? Here is the result thrown in with a few Still Life Daffodils I did also, but will only use one of them in the Still Life gallery (the blurred one)y. Please enjoy.

Still Life Update

Some fresh still life images hot of the press. Featuring some flowers from the Brambles Florist and stuff Amy found in the hedgerow Do not get me wrong, I do not send Amy out to rout through the local hedges in her spare time, but she finds something interesting like a gnarled old stick or some berry's on branches that have fallen. Then bring them home and see if we can put them to good use in still life shots or even at studio photo shoots we have done in the past. So here are the results of this months offering, I hope you enjoy them. They were all taken in natural light and using several filters, some with Vaseline smeared on them so as to add a blurred effect. I am pleased with them and hope to do some more very soon if we can. Thank you Amy x.

November Flower Updates

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Its getting mighty close to Christmas season, the season when Mariah Carey comes out of her cave to warble at us again. But not before we have just had Halloween and Fireworks night. And that is represented in the Brambles flower shop who have once again provided us with some really great flowers to work with. I am especially fond of the three football shaped plants on sticks that I have photographed before on their own and singulary, but never as a set of three. I even added them to the ever growing carousel pictures on the landing page of this web site (its the third picture in!). So a big thanks then goes out to our friends at Brambles Florist and Flowers to yours, Chris and the team for all of their input. Thanks also to Amy for helping with the shoot and organising the preparations to the shoot as she often does.

See you all next month for a festive season offering. X