• One last look at the vibrant plumage of Boughton Scrub, as the sun lowered and the time came finally to take our leave of this secret garden.

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  • Throwback Friday #13 The Lion & The Ivy (2006)

    In writing about my enthusiasm for the Brothers Quay’s stop-motion animation, Street of Crocodiles, I was prompted to recall memories of my visits to Stoke Newington’s Abney Park cemetery. In turn, I was prompted to disinter some of the photographs I knew I’d taken during these visits, but had otherwise forgotten about completely. I also…

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  • Another crop of images this morning, featuring more of those striking swathes of rumex spires and daubs of purple thistle. Some of these begin to feel like I’m looking at sections of elaborate. luxurious wallpaper and I’m feeling a growing urge to tessellate!

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  • A second visit to Boughton Scrub – a living tapestry of stitches, fine threads and scarlet skeins.

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  • Hey Graeme! Welcome back. I noticed a few exciting updates going out on social media about new progress on your animated short, The Green Glider. How’s it coming along?

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  • Late yesterday afternoon we found an extraordinary place, an improbable paradise of colour, texture and impressionist sensorial pleasure… in spitting distance of a sewage plant! I suspect we might have been engaging in some light trespassing, but the lure of the rust-red veination of the dock leaf flowers against the brushwork of the tall grass…

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  • Your Daily Horoscope

    One of the lovely things about having spent a decade or more working with young early career animators is… I know a lot of young early career animators! A few days back I received an email from Urvashi Lele, who I had the pleasure of supporting and working alongside all the way back in 2014.…

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  • The Uncanny Object (1998)

    The Kick-About #5 prompted me to exhume these images from the archive, specifically Graeme Daly’s recollections of the basement in his father’s house, and particularly the suspicion with which he regarded the dolls who lived down there in the company of spiders.

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  • And finally then, we arrive at the last of the last. You probably feel as if you’ve spent as much time in this barley field as me!

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  • Throwback Friday #12 Eschscholzia californica

    A roar of Summer at the end of the week! In common with lots of my plant photography, I don’t know when these portraits of Eschscholzia californica were taken, but at some point in the early 2000s. I know where they were taken – in the garden of a post office in rural Lincolnshire, and…

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