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Throwback Friday #82 Horse Chestnut (2011)
I’m slightly torturing myself with this image, taken in some dusty French town in the late summer of 2011. I can almost feel the stored heat coming off that chalky white wall… Read more
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Hanabi (2021)
The fun thing about participating in The Kick-About is the way it produces these intense bouts of creative exploration, sending me off in different directions every two weeks and often exerting a tight grip on… Read more
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Short Film: Whizz Bang Ooh Aah (2021)
Thanks to The Kick-About No.40, I went shooting off on another short-lived, if intense, trajectory inspired by these beautiful and poetic illustrations of fireworks. I’ve been sharing images resulting from my photography of soap bubbles,… Read more
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After Flowers Of Fire #5 (2021)
A few last squibs from my photographic mission to ‘blow things up’ in response to the firework theme of The Kick-About No.40, only the only ‘blowing up’ taking place in the production of these images… Read more
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After Flowers Of Fire #4 (2021)
Another set of soap bubble-derived scintillas produced in a Kick-About-inspired quest to simulate the pyrotechnics of a firework display in the environs of my house. Read more
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After Flowers Of Fire #3 (2021)
A third collection of images produced for The Kick-About No.40, with some of these not giving out an explosive vibe at all, but something much more autumnal and becalmed; leaves on the surface of a… Read more
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Throwback Friday #81 Allium Seedhead (2021)
So not ‘throwing back’ very far this Friday, only as far as a few weeks ago, when I started thinking about all-things ‘firework-y’. Our house is full of dried allium heads, great big starbursts sitting… Read more
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After Flowers Of Fire #2 (2021)
A second assortment of ‘bubble-originated’ photographs forming part of my attempts to emulate scintillas of firework-inspired sparks for the purposes of exploring The Kick-About No.40. It does look as if I’ve been photographing handfuls of… Read more
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After Flowers Of Fire #1 (2021)
The Kick-About No.40 inevitably got me thinking about ways I might make fireworks my photographic subject without burning down the house in the process! I settled upon an equivalent phenomena that shared both the ‘rainbows’… Read more
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The Kick-About #40 ‘Flowers Of Fire’
After the gothic shadows of our last Kick-About together, how about a bit of flash, dazzle and colour? Inspired by the delightful illustrations from various collections of Japanese firework catalogues, the Kick-Abouters are lighting things… Read more
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