Brent Tor Meadows

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Spotted this interesting pattern in the meadows of Brentor, Dartmoor, as viewed from the top of the rocky outcrop known as Brent Tor.

Enticement!

toke's deli by eric tatham

Toke’s Deli on a wet evening in Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire.

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

The Stables

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I photographed this view of the old stables at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire as it looked so surreal including, as it did, a painting of the same scene.

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.

Canestra di Frutta

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This photograph takes its inspiration from a painting by Caravaggio.

The original, Canestra di Frutta (Basket of Fruit), is one of the first still life paintings. It was painted in about 1599 by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan.

Bodegón

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Photograph in the style of the painter Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560 – 1627).

Cotán’s still lifes are called bodegones, in Spanish art, a bodegón being a still life painting depicting pantry items.

The very dark background is intended to impart a sense of depth with the light enhancing the textures and surfaces but still without illuminating the background. Thus the ‘pantry’ container serves as a kind of stage and the fruit and vegetables the spotlit players.