Category: Photography

Life imitating art

Photography

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Based on a photograph taken during a recent visit to the National Gallery in London.

Awarded First Place in The Gerry Coyle Memorial Trophy competition for best colour print held at Dunchurch Photographic Society on 25th October 2017.

Awarded Second Place in the Badby Challenge Competition between 9 clubs held in Badby on 15th November 2017.

Accepted for exhibition as a print at Midland Counties Photographic Federation PhotoFolio 2018.

Accepted for exhibition as a print at Midland Counties Photographic Federation MidPhot 2018. Awarded an MCPF Ribbon.

Broken chairs

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Broken chairs in the scullery at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

l liked the vividly coloured yet grungy abandoned state of this room preserved from the beginning of the last century.

The Last Boat In

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RS Feva sailing dinghies coming in after a training session at Draycote Water near Dunchurch, Warwickshire.

One straggler lags behind the others as the boats are brought ashore.

Snowdonia

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Looking along the length of Llyn Padarn on a rainy day towards Mount Snowdon in North Wales. The mountain peak itself (just to the left of image centre) is shrouded in cloud.

I liked the texture of the rain drops in the lake and the patches of sunlight finding a way through the rain clouds to highlight parts of the water surface and the foreground grasses.

Criccieth Castle

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Photograph of Criccieth Castle in North Wales taken on a windy day as Storm Doris hit the UK on 23 February 2017.

Criccieth Castle was famously painted by J. M. W. Turner in about 1835 as part of his series depicting shipwrecked  mariners; see Tate.

Criccieth Castle circa 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

It looks much stormier in Turner’s picture and he has also turned the castle around to improve the composition.

Hellfire Caves

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A modern garden table and a stone face at the window photographed inside the Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

The caves are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns, excavated between 1748 and 1752, extending 500 metres underground. They were owned by Sir Francis Dashwood and came to be used for meetings of his club which later became known as the Hellfire Club.

The caves are now a tourist attraction.

Hambleden Cottages

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Row of Cottages in the village of Hambleden, Buckinghamshire.

Hambleden has often been used as a location for films, for example; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Witches, 101 Dalmatians and Sleepy Hollow. It also features in several episodes of the television series Midsomer Murders. More recently it has been a main location for the ITV television series Endeavour, Series 4, Episode 4, Harvest.