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on my way back from the fuller, i spotted a swan and took a gazillion pictures with the BGC, after patty's excellent instruction. i stopped taking pictures of the swan and switched to the grasses on the other side of the "pond". got to get out and practice more!!
btb, if nothing else my photostream is eclectic!!
Presence, absence. Moments in time. Memories we make and memories we leave behind.
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Intentional camera movement looking up at the Madison building in London’s docklands. The advertising tag line for this structure is ‘iconic design that creates motion’. Designed by Make Architects,
Seen in Tarragona, Spain, recently. The walls of neighbouring properties are sprayed when an adjoining building is demolished to protect the fabric from the weather.
This practical process reminded me of sculptures by Rachel Whiteread.
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San Gregorio, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, Northern California, USA.
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Available Light, Leica D-LUX 4.
Fairfax, Marin County, Northern California, USA.
Details of an exterior wall of an old, but well-preserved half-timbered (FR = à colombages. DE = Fachwerk) home. There is probably some structural or functional reason for this confusing assemblage, but not one that I can see. However, it makes an interesting piece of architectural abstract realism.
Location: Blotzheim, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's Old Architecture.
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Goli mask of Kpiekpie (Female).
20th century, Wood and pigment,
African, Cote d'Ivoire, Baule Culture,
Seattle Art Museum Exhibit, 2018, Washington State, USA.
Goli faces look akin to stop signs that force people to drop what they are doing and pay attention to the arrival of masqueraders who emerge from a forest sanctuary. All-day performances are expected as a means to ease concerns about the social stability of a community at times of crisis. This face was part of the opening act and was worn by a boy who performed erratically to stir up the audience awaiting the excitement of the masquerades to come.
I was asked to show some of my architectural images in a solo exhibition, my first, in a local Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, barber shop that hosts other art exhibitions.
It opened on 13th October 2021 and ran until 26th November 2021.
This triptych consists of 3 of the 14 images that I exhibited in 'Sight Lines'. Their locations all happen to commence with an 'H'", from left to right: Hackney Wick, Halifax and Huddersfield. All three of these photos are elsewhere in my Flickr stream, although I haven't shown the Huddersfield shot in black and white before.
Thank you those people who visited the exhibition.
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Scattata con Polaroid Now +
Pellicola B&W i-Type Film
Lampada a Luce Continua
Digitalizzata, non Manipolata
Manipolata Manualmente
Ascoli Piceno Agosto 2025
Taken with Polaroid Now +
B&W i-Type Film
Continuous lighting
Digitally Manipulated
Not digitally Manipulated
Ascoli Piceno August 202
The main subject in this image is some kind of rusty, minor drainpipe, sticking out of a backstreet wall. I liked the rich, abstract-reality imagery produced by the rust-derived colors, the wall's stucco texture and the shadowed light.
Location: Downtown Mulhouse, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's Miscellany.
Shadows and silhouettes. Looking through the window of a derelict warehouse in West Yorkshire on a sunny day.
The light showing through the space where the roof once was has created an abstract feel to the dilapidated structure behind the window.
‘Reimaginings’ are square-cropped images taken of marks, weathered paint, and rust seen by me in the urban environment which appeal to me as abstract shapes and forms.
Some of these photographs are fragments of faded and much repainted and over-painted graffiti surfaces, paint spills and general weathering.
Here's a link to my 'Reimaginings' images: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAiXfh
My alternative name for this photo is 'Third Rock from the Sun'.
Detail shot of former Midland Bank/HSBC premises in central Liverpool. It is now a restaurant.
Designed in 1967 and built around 1971. It is of concrete and steel frame construction with faceted windows of mirrored glass in stainless-steel frames.
Architects: Thomas Harker of Bradshaw, Rowse & Harker of Liverpool.