This is a great challenge from 52Frames. I had lots of idea for Silhouette but settled on some photos I took a few years ago of the houses on the other side of the street as the moon was coming up. It works well in the format of my book and is another image...
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52Frames Everything in Focus Week 22
The challenge set for this week is Everything in Focus! For photographers this is an excercise in depth of field. If you create a drawn image you already select how much of your image is in focus. I was not sure how to tackle this, then my friend suggested...
52Frames Inspired by an Artist Week 21
This week's 52Frames challenge is Inspired by an Artist!... well actually a photographer but I did Artist. All week I have been carrying a book around about Artist Dahlov Ipcar (https://www.dahlovipcarart.com/gallery). I came across her work a few years ago and...
52Frames Flat Lay Week 18 Final Image
Eventually finished this image and here is the final for Flat Lay. I cut out a stencil and then sprayed paint with a toothbrush. I have aslo put some metallic paint over so some are shiny. They are painted onto a technical document of my dads' with some details...
52Frames Emotion Week 13
The challenge for 52Frames this week is to show emotion in your image. I looked at ways of displaying emotion; colour is important and in portraits you are advised to concentrate on the eyes. A lot of images showing emotion seemed to concentrate on sadness or...
52Frames An Activity Week 11
The challenge set for 52Frames this week is An Activity. I had a couple of choices for reference, but love this picture I took in Procida, Italy. The little boys were sitting in the sun fishing. We were quite a long way above them. The photo has been cropped...
52Frames Hello From..! Week 2
This week 52Frames is titled Hello From..! I travelled up to Scotland on Tuesday and stopped at Tebay Services for coffee and a slice of very good chocolate and stout cake. The cafe was very quiet so I sat at a window table, and this was the view over...
52Frames Self-Portrait Week 1
52Frames (https://52frames.com/) is a free community photography project, where a challenge is set every week and responses posted on their website My friend completed this last year producing some interesting images and most importantly doing something every...
Before Lockdown – Spanners
It seems a lifetime ago but, before lockdown, a friend and I were working on a joint project about our dads. I had started thinking about making some books to display, each one related to a different apect of my memory of him and my first thought had been his garage...
Trees
Been doing trees in different media on the evening class. Has been a good opportunity to revisit something old and try something new. Did the Scots Pine in pencil and was inspired by having done some machine embroidery so trying to get my marks to look a bit like...