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Ted in the snow 170123
Just a smartphone shot using a Samsung Galaxy A51 because I didn’t bring my Fuji out with me yesterday morning when I was walking Ted. He loves the snow, as you can possibly see from the pictures. He runs around in it like a yearling puppy, rolls in it, lies on it and stands staring at it. He doesn’t want to come in when there’s snow about. It’s all right for him with that double coat of fur, but, for me, at 2degC, even with five layers including thermals and heavy walking boots, I start to feel the cold quickly. I think it’s an old age thing.
This is a montage of the public opening of the "Dream" statue in Sutton Manor on 31st May 2009.
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Ted in the snow 170123
Just a smartphone shot using a Samsung Galaxy A51 because I didn’t bring my Fuji out with me yesterday morning when I was walking Ted. He loves the snow, as you can possibly see from the pictures. He runs around in it like a yearling puppy, rolls in it, lies on it and stands staring at it. He doesn’t want to come in when there’s snow about. It’s all right for him with that double coat of fur, but, for me, at 2degC, even with five layers including thermals and heavy walking boots, I start to feel the cold quickly. I think it’s an old age thing.
20-metre high sculpture of a girl’s head on top a spoil heap that pays tribute to the mining community of Sutton Manor near St Helens.
Catalan artist Jaume Plensa designed the piece to be suggestive both of the “dream of light when you are working in darkness” and the old Victorian motto of the town, “ex terra lucem” (out of the earth comes light).
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Dream is 20 metres high and its apex stands just over 100 metres above sea level.
The plinth is over 17 metres in diameter.
The entire sculpture (head and plinth) weighs approximately 373 tonnes.
A further 130 tonnes of concrete have gone into the pile cap and foundations.
The head is approximately 50 times life size
The white stone does something odd to your eyes. Looks like a black outline and gives a really floaty look to the thing.
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Jaume Plensa's Dream at Sutton Manor Colliery, St Helens, due to officially open at the end of May. Part of the Channel 4 Big Art project.
If you're thinking of visiting, check the map link below. It's just a short walk up from the old colliery gates on Jubits Lane.
The spectacular 20-metre-high sculpture, portraying the head of a girl with her eyes closed, is the artist's response to a brief developed through conversations with ex-miners and members of the wider local community. Dream is fabricated in pre-cast concrete, with a white, almost luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, in marked contrast to the black of the coal that still lies below.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
I finally managed to get to see the Dream statue at St.Helens – I’ve been past it on the motorway dozens of times and each time I promise to myself that I’ll go – last weekend I finally did. I was hoping for a nicer day, I’d like to have done some blue sky shots but as it was the weather took a turn for the worse and I’ve had to go down the moody black and white route.
Located on the site of an old colliery, the actual statue itself is very weird – it really messes with your head as you get close up to it as the white concrete surface doesn’t appear to have shape or definition. It’s hard to explain here, it’s best to go and have a look yourself!
Bigger and on black on my blog
Nearly finished
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Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Dream (a sculpture just off the M62 near St.Helens)
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
The Dream Country Park 281123
A walk with Ted, our dog, on a frosty late November morning, around the Dream Country Park in St Helens, Merseyside. The park is built on reclaimed land previously used by the Sutton Manor colliery. The construction of the 66ft high Dream statue was won by the town – one of four public arts projects awarded nationally by a Channel Four television programme, ‘The Big Art Project’, together with The Art Fund and Arts Council England.. The sculptor/designer was Jaume Plensa. The walk was also, probably, my last chance to look across to the cooling towers of the Fidlers Ferry former power station: four of them are due to be demolished on December 3rd.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Daisyfield – wildflowers, berries and blossoms 120723
A couple of evenings ago, Ted and I had a walk around Daisyfield – a local patch of woodland in St Helens, reclaimed from former industries. The light seemed reasonable. So I took my camera and snapped photos of any wildflowers, berries and blossoms I came across. By wildflowers, I don’t mean the pretty poppies and so on that people buy as seeds for their gardens, these were mainly weeds with redeeming features – even including such truly invasive types as Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed. Nevertheless, in bloom they brightened the area beside the path.
Dream is 20 metres high and its apex stands just over 100 metres above sea level.
The plinth is over 17 metres in diameter.
The entire sculpture (head and plinth) weighs approximately 373 tonnes.
A further 130 tonnes of concrete have gone into the pile cap and foundations.
The head is approximately 50 times life size
Dream is 20 metres high and its apex stands just over 100 metres above sea level.
The plinth is over 17 metres in diameter.
The entire sculpture (head and plinth) weighs approximately 373 tonnes.
A further 130 tonnes of concrete have gone into the pile cap and foundations.
The head is approximately 50 times life size