Showing posts with label Pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pictures. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 June 2013

I AM LICHEN ART

Sometimes nature is its own paintbrush. All you have to do is imagine.

THE BEARDED MAN

THE BEAR AND THE WOLF

WHEN A ROCK WEEPS
Thes were all taken at the top of a mountain on the island of Brac, a place called Vidova Gora which means View from the Hill (I believe).

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Saturday, 20 April 2013

SPRING AT LAST

On a day like today, I think of the words of Martin Luther KIng, half-ironically:

Spring at last, spring at last
Thank God Almighty it is spring at last......

 BLUEGRASS


 SPRING AT LAST

ON THE DARK SIDE


Tuesday, 5 March 2013

WHEN DALI MET MARILYN

WHEN DALI MET MARILYN
Granada Spain
Mar 2013



An early morning walk up to the Alhambra. A surreal morning. A piece of grafitti on grafitti.
The result? One of my favourite pictures ever.

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

NOAH AND SANDY

My trip to the States began with a visit to the gargantuan movie set of Noah, whose propmaster is my cousin Sandy (Hamilton) in Williamsburg NY and ended with a 700 mile Southern dash away from NY (where I was supposed to catch a now non-existent plane) from Williamsburg Va. (where I was staying with my best friend Randy) to avoid a flood which was Biblical in dimension also named Sandy. Confused? I was, despite the neat symmetry which only became apparent in retrospect. My cousin's wife Linnae, who gave me a book inscribed Noah, Soho, Moto to chronicle our day out in Manhattan/Brooklyn, inadvertently set the tone for what was a momentous few days of four letter words. Noah, Soho, Moto, Argo ( a good flick by the way), Poco(hantas, as we went to Jamestown), Nana (my mother, who benefited from an unscheduled visit) and UhOh, which described the mammoth storm which caused me to change plans, hire a car, and flee south to Atlanta to catch the only British Airways flight back to London. The impending hurricane, which kept on threatening to turn shoreward right where we were, brought forward scouts of wind and rain for days on either side of its epicenter, and did not deter us from living life to the max: ignoring wind and water to play tennis (indoor and out), golf, biking on the Colonial Parkway (adding dark to the aforementioned wind and rain), that visit to the faux village at Jamestown where we were 3 of 8 tourists, a morning at the original destination of the trip, my friend's farm on the Mobjack, which consisted of putting away the Hobie out of harm's way, and a high school football game (also in the rain).  Life with the volume turned up. When we step outside our houses, who knows what surprises await us?


Here are some random images from a memorable 5 days of mayhem and activity.

 FALLEN HERO
Jamestown Virginia
Oct 2012

 MEAT WITHOUT FEET
Manhattan 
Oct 2012

 PEAR SHAPED
Tryon North Carolina
Oct 2012

 QUEEN OF LOVE
Soho NYC
Oct 2012

 REALLY A PATRIOT
Williamsburg Brooklyn NY
Oct 2012
  TODAY I'M A GOOD WITCH
Landrum South Carolina
Oct 2012
JIMI
Soho NYC
Oct 2012

Monday, 6 August 2012

SARDINIA-ROCKFACES

When you stand in the water for hours on end, gazing at the landscape, sometimes the landscape gazes back. Such was the case recently in Sardinia, when what were inanimate objects, simple rocks, began to well......animate, and little by little, I was surrounded by personalities.

All life is one. In the imagination, that is.


 I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER

 CURIOUS GEORGE

 IL LUPO


 PALS

 SLEEPING CATFISH


 WHISKERED WINNIE


WHY THE GLUM FACE?


All photos were taken in Villasimius, Sardinia, August 2012.

Sunday, 18 December 2011

LIFE IS NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S APP




LIFE IS NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S APP
KEW 
December 2011


In a year when apps became ubiquitous, the theme for our Christmas card......

Merry Christmas to "all those who are flourishing, those who are just getting by, and those who are hanging on for dear life.*

*from a singer whose name I can't remember






Sunday, 30 October 2011

LEAVING-AUTUMN 2011

FIRE IN THE HOLE
Kew October 2011

 MONKEY PUZZLE 1
Kew Gardens October 2011

MONKEY PUZZLE 2
Kew Gardens October 2011

Saturday, 13 August 2011

YOUR HEART IS THE ONLY PLACE I CALL HOME

YOUR HEART IS THE ONLY PLACE I CALL HOME
Arbatax, Sardinia
Aug 2011
CHLOROPHYLL
Arbatax,Sardinia
Aug-2011
PINK AND BLUE
Arbatax,Sardinia
Aug-2011
POOLS
Arbatax,Sardinia
Aug-2011

Monday, 27 June 2011

KEW IN SUMMER

CENTRE COURT
Kew June 2011

BLUE AMPHORA
Kew June 2011
ORANGE SPIKE
Kew June 2011
BLUE STAR
Kew June 2011

Friday, 29 April 2011

ON THE WIDE SCREEN

Okay, so perhaps I am a bit of a reluctant royalist. I am all for good cheer, let's put it this way, and there was plenty of that in abundance this morning. And call it providential, fortunate, or sheer coincidence, but the second that young woman stepped out of her car to enter the church, the sun suddenly and oh-so briefly came out. You couldn't make it up.


This is the first instalment.



ON THE WIDE SCREEN
London
April 2011 

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
Kew 
Mar 2006


Some moments will never happen again. To you, or anyone else. I know that this won't. Over breakfast my wife Christina said: Oh look, and pointed out the window.  I sprinted to catch these contrails. 

The contrails (or their pattern anyway) may contrive to exist again. The tree was cut down the next year.

So this moment, like our lives, will pass forever, captured only in this image.

That, I suppose, is a form of immortality.