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As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn
We settle down to cut ourselves apart.
Cough and twitch from the news on your face
And some foreign candle burning in your eyes
Held to the past too aware of the pending
Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale.
Enter the fog another low road descending
Away from the cold lust, you house and summertime.
Blind to the last cursed affair pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed till the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.
The Shins
I decided to do a reworking of a photo that I'd uploaded a few weeks ago. Mainly because even though it's definetly one of my favourites I don't think I did it justice when tonemapping or editing. There were a couple of details that I hadnt noticed at all and they are very hard to see unless you look at the large version. (even then they're very small)
Firstly there is a bird off to the far right but even further away on the left there is a helicopter which I hadnt even noticed the first time which shows how little effort I'd put into post processing.
I'm now much happier with this version. This one if most definetly better viewed on a large black background.
Much Much Better Viewed On Black
-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite.
A little jaunt out with some of the Parkwood crew. Jim Paul Billy Dave and Justin
Ive been to this place before. This is the first one I've looked at from all the photos I took so I'm optimistic of finding some more I like as I look over them in the next few days.
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Another shot from our Day trip to the South Coast with Parkwood on the Cesar Challenge.
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It looks better viewed large but slightly back from your screen. Seriously... try it....
Another shot from my Vintage Parliament Collection. I was trying to get a shot of parliament but by getting the trees in the foreground make it not immediately obvious what you are looking at.
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Taking a sneaky walk onto the track between Gravesend and Higham. The dangers we undertake for our art. Dont tell me off Andy. Actually there is a public walkway here but there was a sign saying it was closed. I took it anyway!
In Explore # 84
Maximo Park @ Shepherds Bush Empire, Friday 11th May with support from Art Brut and Wild . More photos can be found @ www.shortsharpshot.com
I left my home in georgia,
headed for the 'frisco bay.
'Cos I've had nothing to live for,
and looks like nothin's gonna come my way.
So, I'm jus' gonna sit on the dock of the bay,
watching the tide roll away.
I'm jus' sittin' on the dock of the bay...
Wastin' time.
Look like, nothin's gonna change.
Everything still remain the same.
I can't do what ten people tell me to do,
so I guess I'll remain the same.
lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by,
And I waited in my fleeting house
Before he came I felt him drawing near;
As he neared I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer,
And I waited in my fleeting house
Tim Buckley
Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand
Lovely and chaste like smooth white sand.
A veil of wonder laced in light
Falling Gently on a winters night.
Graceful beauty raining down
Giving magic to the lifeless ground.
Each snowflake like a falling star
Smiling beauty that's spun afar.
Till earth is dressed in a robe of white
Unspoken poem the hush of night.
Linda A. Copp
A train within the dream may represent segmenting, compartmentalizing or reviewing various phases, cycles or areas of your life
Paolo Nutini @ Stubbs, Austin, Texas for SXSW on Saturday 170307 More photos can be found @ www.shortsharpshot.com
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Woodchurch Windmill taken today on a little drive through Kent and East Sussex.
In Explore # 193. Thanks for everyone's comments.
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I took the little one to the Aquarium today. Perhaps she's still a little young for it. The clouds did look awesome breaking over The Houses of Parliament.
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Everything is wrong with this photo in the true photographic sense. The eye line to the left leads in and out of the photo and on the right side the London eye faces out of the shot, in the foreground the cab is in shot but driving out of it with no movement space in front. Then there is a middle void which is only filled with a lamppost. Why do I always seem to enjoy the "wrong" shots so much more than the correct, and clinical ones? I was having this conversation with my friend Iain today and I decided that correct clinical shots are soulless so I'm happy keeping my wrong ones!
Storm clouds building over Tower Bridge. One of my favourites for a while, and taken on my little old noise friendly canon 350.
Having spent 2 days this week in hospital today was my first time out of the house. I was pretty exhausted after about 2 hours so didnt shoot too much but I was pretty pleased with this one.
In both the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450, the rebels camped on the Heath (a convenient high point overlooking London). The Cornish rebellion of 1497 was defeated in a battle on Blackheath.
The Heath was a lonely place where travellers along the London to Dover road (now the A2) were in danger from highwaymen.
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The French Street Performance of Compagnie Off in Greenwich last summer. Reworked using multiple generated exposures to produce a fake hdr.
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Severndroog Castle on Shooters Hill, Greenwich in south-east London is one of the properties entered in the BBC's Restoration 2004 TV programme. This listed Grade II* gothic tower was built in 1784 as a monument to the brave seafarer, Sir William James (1720–73), by his heartbroken widow, Lady James of Eltham. It commemorates the taking of Suvarnadurg island fort, a pirate stronghold on India's west coast, in 1755.
James's adoring and grief-striken wife built the castle. It was designed by the English architect, Richard Jupp (1728–99) of the East India Company. The brick-built gothic tower is triangular with hexagonal turrets at each corner. Built on three storeys, it stands over 18 metres (60 feet) tall. The roof is higher than the cross on St Paul's Cathedral, offering views across London made famous on postcards. On a clear day, seven counties can be seen from this vantage point. In fact, there was a beacon for shipping coming up the Thames on this hill from the 16th century.
This was a different angle. I tried to get as much of the bridge in as possible whilst keeping as much of parliament as well and creating the effect of Parliament being on the actual bridge. Trying to set up your tripod down this part of the Thames in the rain with a million tourists behind you isn't easy either. I'm not sure on the composition so comments are welcome.
I tried to get as vintage a shot as possible while encompassing all the modern aspects of this part of London. What I did find was the one thing more prevalent down this road than London Taxis was tourist coaches.
The Thames Barrier in Woolwich, London.
The Thames Barrier is a flood control structure on the River Thames, constructed between 1974 and 1984 at Woolwich Reach, and first used defensively in 1983.
It has been used over 100 times defensively, the last of which was on March 19th, 2008.
It is the world's second largest movable flood barrier (the largest is the Maeslantkering in The Netherlands).
A reworking of an earlier shot. I actually managed to upload the not quite finished one but I'll be selling the final copy soon and I'll stick details up here.
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An abandoned boat in North Greenwich overlooks Canary Wharf. As you approach the Blackwall Tunnel Northbound there's a slip road that takes you into an industrial wasteland that hardly anyone ever sees. The land that the O2 didnt want. Forgotten and abandoned homes and a cafe/hotel that is no longer used. Literally a stones throw from some of the South Easts busiest locations yet a place that most people who go there will never see.
Coming into work today as I was walking across London Bridge, Tower Bridge started to come up. It was a very foggy morning which meant blown highlights everywhere so I played around with the photo and tried to make something different from it.
I work just on the edge of the river at Northern Shell but I never get to see anything other than the buildings on the other side of the road at the front of the building. Hardly inspiring.
Its funny though. Tourists travel the world to see places like this. I however go past it about 500 times a year and whilst I always have a look you tend to take such things for granted.
So as part of this 365 Im going to take photos of things that I've started to take for granted as well.
A closer version of Parliament. Its quite difficult to get shots without thousands of tourists bumping into you. I took this shortly before a security scare closed the London Eye and I had to move.
Rye's history can be traced back to before the Norman Conquest, when, as a small fishing community, it was almost surrounded by water and lay within the Manor of Rameslie. The sea has retreated and now lies two miles from the town and sheep graze where the waves once broke on the beach.
The Manor of Rameslie was promised to the Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy by Ethelred the Unready, who - true to his name - had been caught off guard and forced to flee from the Danes in 1014. Luckily it was the Abbey that gave him shelter. Although Ethelred died before he could bestow his gift, his widow, Queen Emma married King Canute and made him confirm the transfer of Rye and the surrounding area, to Fecamp.
It was Henry III who finally restored order and in 1247 the area was returned to the English Crown from the Abbey of Fécamp, except for a small area some way inland, still known to this day as Rye Foreign. It was not taken back under English control until the Reformation.
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Like something from Victorian Britain. Dirty smog. mud and pollution. Oh and Docklands and The Dome.
Finally got round to processing some shots I took on a night out with the silver fox a couple of Mondays back.
The Church of the Ascension in Cadenabbia, is a masterpiece of Giuseppe Brentano, a young Italian architect and was completed and consecrated on Michelmas Day in 1891 with over 350 people subscribing to the cost.
I've been experimenting with multiples exposures on portraits and on people using single files and manipulating them.
I decided to work on this shot of M.I.A. Firstly because the original still gets viewed about 10 times a day so I would get traffic that wasnt just to see my photos and also because it was a colourful image despite being quite dark at the time and therefore I had a pretty high ISO setting. I'd be interested to get any feedback either way!
The original is here. Personally I think I prefer the original :)
Fairfield Church in...... well the middle of nowhere really!
Fairfield lies between Brookland and Brenzett on a minor road in a deserted part of the Walland Marsh .
The area was won from the sea (inned) sometime between 1200 and 1270. The monks from Canterbury built dykes to the western edge of the Rhee Wall (the sea defenses built by the Romans) and enclosed the land so reclaiming the rich and fertile soil from the sea.
1287 saw the great storm in which Broomhill was swept away and New Romney barely survived. The Rother changed its course to the sea, and exited the marshes at Rye, whereas before the storm the river found its way to the sea near to modern day Greatstone and Littlestone .
Fayrefelde existed before 1595 as a map of the time shows the village approximately where the church now sits. It is likely that as the land became more reclaimed so the village sprung up.
Nowadays all that can be seen is the church lying down from the road embankment which is probably the original inning wall. The church was built as a temporary structure of timber lath and plaster in the 1200's to support the local farming community. The exterior has been strengthened with brick, and in 1913 the whole building was reconstructed and encased to preserve it.
Originally built (AD 135-39) by Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his successors, it was later decorated and fortified as a place of refuge for the popes.
Although outside of the Vatican city itself it was connected to the Vatican by a secret passage for their escape route in times of danger.
It was used as a fortress and prison until 1870 and is now a museum - the Museo Nazionale Militare and of Art.
It seems my extended family has more than a couple of photographers in it. This was originally an image that my Aunt's Partner took while on a coach going through Rome. I saw and loved the shot and asked if I could have a little play with it. The original photographers name is John Goss.
The lifting of the bridge. I checked in advance and took a prime spot in front of city hall. Unfortunately the boat is a little lost in the background which was unavoidable but I still like it.
Along with Ray and Chris from Parkwood I have a stall at Leadenhall Market on the 21st May. This is a rework of an older shot which Im selling limited edition. I have a whole lot of uploading to do to get ready for next week so going out shooting today is out of the question hence the old upload.
This is the one photo that above all others I have spent the most time working on. I'm talking hours and hours. It all started from one jpeg.
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