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Throwback Friday #108 Sea Swimming, Whitstable (2013)
This photograph, taken back in the high summer of 2013, represents that high-risk moment when I carried my camera out into the sea with me as I bobbed about. It was one of those silvery,… Read more
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Bird #2 (2022)
In response to the bird-based ‘whirligig’ prompt of The Kick-About #54, I set myself the ambition of photographing the movement of a flapping bird in the confines of my house, in the knowledge that a)… Read more
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Bird #1 (2022)
Developing some ideas first inspired by a previous bird-based Kick-About, I set about thinking about how I might release a bird into the rooms of my home and photograph it by which to respond to… Read more
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The Kick-About #54 ‘Whirligig’
Our last Kick-About together invited us into the spectacle of Toulouse-Lautrec’s circus paintings, and so to spin around for a bit in the company of clowns and acrobats. Thanks to Kick-Abouter, Gary Thorne, we appear… Read more
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Throwback Friday #107 Fanelli Cafe, New York (2014)
Back in late December 2014, my husband took me to New York for the occasion of my 40th birthday. We had a really wonderful time and I’ve recently rediscovered a whole bunch of photographs from… Read more
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Throwback Friday #106 Cherry Blossom 2013
A blast of improbable pink against an improbably blue Spring sky from back in 2013. Read more
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Short Story: Toupie (2022)
You can thank Tod Browning’s notorious 1932 film, Freaks, for what follows, ladies and gents, which is certainly one of the most vivid circus-centric narratives I know. The important thing about Browning’s unfairly maligned movie is… Read more
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The Kick-About #53 ‘At The Circus’
The last edition of The Kick-About marked our second birthday and two year’s of fortnightly creative challenges encouraging artists of all stripes to make new work in a short time. As such, it was something… Read more
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Throwback Friday #105 Spring (2014)
Some impressionist photographic play seeking to capture the Spring froth of our garden back in 2014, when the border was floating with fox gloves, alliums, thalictrums and tellima spires. Read more
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Throwback Friday #104 Eremurus (2003/4)
I can’t tell you exactly when this photograph was taken – a close-up of one of the hundreds of flowers comprising the impressive orange tower of a fox-tail lily – but I can tell you… Read more
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