Monthly Archives: November 2013

DPReview Recommends: Best Compact Cameras for Travel: Digital Photography Review

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Guthlac

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7118583476/dpreview-recommends-best-compact-cameras-for-travel?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=generic This is a fascinating article but I feel totally misses the point. If you are travelling the best camera that you need is you phone camera…little hassle, always with you etc. if this is the case then in my … Continue reading →

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Welcome back brushes

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Guthlac

I’ve just checked and it is nearly two months since I made a painting using Brushes…what have I been doing with my time? Anyway I quite like jovial cove – almost a bit Falstaffesque. I also think that the looser … Continue reading →

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Giraffe

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Guthlac

Having just watched the Imagine programme about the remarkable Judith Kerr I felt compelled to make a drawing of a giraffe…not sure why a giraffe but that doesn’t matter right now. Anyway, my first giraffe was from memory and had … Continue reading →

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We’re ashes on the ground…don’t say I’ll walk away

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Guthlac

I guess it was only matter of time before I came around to one of the best photo’s ever taken – Neil Leifer’s Clay v Liston – comic book chic…  

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Making believe this is what you’ve conceived

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Guthlac

Oh Yeah… so the song goes.   Some of the drawings I made just for the heck of it.  The only rule I had was that there was not going to be any rubbing out – each mark had to … Continue reading →

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Through these fields of destruction… I’ve witnessed all your suffering

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Guthlac

In life’s great game some days you on top and other days life steam rolls you.  Yesterday was one of the later days – nothing like as bad as I’ve had but bad enough to make me an exhibition opening … Continue reading →

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Make sure you shoot the messenger

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Guthlac

Last night just before I went to bed I switched on Sky Sports and saw the banner headline that the Heineken Cup had been saved as the national Rugby Union’s had signed a deal. I thought I would have to … Continue reading →

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Kodachrome, You give us those nice bright colors, You give us the greens of summers – Paul Simons

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Guthlac

You just have to love the iPhone Pano function.  However, now that I’ve got home and are able to start to examine some of the details and one thing struck me.   The ISO is really low – this one … Continue reading →

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Sunrise over Hartlepool

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Guthlac

At least it has stopped raining ! Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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More examples of the IPhoneography from Middlesborough and Redcar

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Guthlac

Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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