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Throwback Friday #87 Harbour Street, Whitstable (2021)
Two alternate views of Harbour Street here in Whitstable, in all its glittery splendour. These photographs were taken on the night of December 3rd, as we did our quick circuit around the quiet, windswept town. Read more
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Seasalter Beach, December #1 (2021)
On a whim one drab December afternoon, we drove out to the nicely forlorn stretch of beach at Seasalter just as the last of the meagre light was leaving the sky. I was after a… Read more
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Short Story: The Night Before (2021)
On Christmas Eve in our house, there was always a tradition of telling ghost stories just before bed, often with a flickering candle for a bit of Dickensian ambience. Read more
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The Kick-About #43 ‘The Night Before Christmas’
Our last Andy Goldsworthy-themed Kick-About together inspired some winter wonderlands (and some much less wintry offerings too, courtesy of Brisbane-based artist, James Randall). For this, our last creative runaround of 2021, we’re keeping things seasonal,… Read more
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Throwback Friday #86 Katowice (2017)
An unlikely subject for a photograph perhaps: a couple of drain covers and a thin covering of snow, but this graphical little composition must have caught by eye back in January 2017, when I was… Read more
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Verglas #7 (2021)
A final set of studies produced in response to The Kick-About No.42 – more Clematic tangutica seed heads entombed in a hemisphere of ice, but producing some pleasingly painterly impressions and lots and lots of… Read more
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Verglas #6 (2021)
The seed heads of Clematis tangutica ‘My Angel’ are extraordinary silvered whirligigs. The plant itself is a bit of a thug, quite at odds with its name, scrambling greedily for many metres in our small… Read more
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Verglas #5 (2021)
There is a rambling rose in our garden, which produces untidy confetti-style blooms in a tremendous deep pink with golden centres. It’s still flowering even now, though surely not for much longer. As part of… Read more
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Verglas #4 (2021)
An allium seed head saved from the summer gets the cryogenic suspension treatment, as I tried a bunch of different things in pursuit of producing something arresting for The Kick-About No. 42. In the space… Read more
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Verglas #3 (2021)
Some deep-frozen foliage today, inspired by the prompt for The Kick-About No. 42: a caramel-coloured leaf-tip from an Osmunda regalis, and the reddish plum tones of the Parthenocissus henryana. In its almost jellied-way, the topmost… Read more
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