Project LV One – Day 94 – The Centre is Open

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Guthlac

Minnie Mouse

One of the unintended consequences of having an creative burst is that I have so much material to choose from I sometimes get myself into a bit of a mess.  I was intended to use a photo of Leicester Cathedral for todays post – to celebrate the opening of the Richard 3rd visitors centre in Leicester.  However, when I was about to post this I realise that I had used this image a few days ago – so clearly I couldn’t reuse an image.

One of the reasons why I was going to use this image was because it would have fitted nicely into the next book in the Project LV One series which raises an interesting paradoxical question.  Am I choosing the image just for the book or for the strength of the image to reflect what I produced for that day?  I will never know.

So this is the final image for book book three of the twelve I intend to produce and it was a difficult choice as I already have the next four days already sitting waiting to be chosen and that is before I go to London tomorrow so goodness only knows what I will create as a result of that?

Madness… a supermassive black hole.

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I just can’t stop drawing

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Guthlac

Eilean Donan Castle Lion - Trafalgar Square

 

Some times, just sometimes I can’t stop myself – I just keep drawing.  Over the past few days I’ve really started to think about making drawings that are not people but rather landscape.  This has always been a bit of a no go area for me as I always thought that was the dominion of the camera – a by product of making photographs for over 40 years.

I seemed to be having real problems with perspective when I tried to sketch/draw the real world. (Of course a landscape doesn’t necessary need to have a perspective but I feel it does – dam all those photographs!) However, the other day I was looking through some of my earliest sketch books and I realised that for so long I struggled with making the human face to look like a human face, let alone a likeness.  I didn’t give up and slowly things started to fall into place.   This is the approach I have started to take with landscapes and it appears to  have some results.  Of course the other thing I have started to do is really look – always important when trying to make a drawing!

So where all this will take me I don’t know.  I can’t see me becoming interested in making large scale landscape drawings as this will be entering the relm of my photographic practice.  However, if my other drawing practice is anything to go by who knows where this will take me?

Don’t stop Movin’ ….

 

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Project LV One – Day 93 – Who the hell Care?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Guthlac

Jennifer Connolly

Dance I’ll take you there…I’m quite pleased with this.

 

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Project LV One – Day 92 – Can’t stop drawing

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Guthlac

rembrandt

Not sure if this has anything to do with the Moleskine sketchbook but just at the moment I can’t stop drawing.  The drawings also seem to be changing – however only time will tell if this is permanent or just an effect of the summer heat – I’m not a great lover of things getting too hot.

Jai Ho

 

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Project LV One – Day 91 – A bit of an iPhone thing at the moment

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Guthlac

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This iPhone thing keeps starching at the back of my brain and so I have revisited the vaults again to find yet another image I just haven’t got around to work on – today it is Whitby in North Yorkshire which I visited back in late autumn last year.  This time all the post production has been undertaken in Photoshop CC rather than in camera.  One of the advantages of the later iPhone is that the JPEG quality is such that it does allow significant port production without too many artefacts starting to appear – however this still doesn’t have a patch on RAW files for their flexibilities.

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Project LV One – Day 90 – Hole in my arm

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Guthlac

Lebron James

It is true – the vampires have taken my blood – where is the garlic when you need it?   Of course this is doing a total disservice to hard working health professionals who are only doing their job with great humanity and dedication – I feel sorry and I will now hold me head in shame.

Away from the mock hyperbole it was that time of year for a check to make sure that my slowly disintegrating  body is still in something like working order.  I should get the result next week when I have a meeting with another nurse.  So back to image making and to continue the iPhoneography theme I have stopped using the iPhone to capture the drawings I have made – the quality just wasn’t there compared to my Canon G1x.

 

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Catching Up

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Guthlac

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Over the past few days I’ve been taking stock of my iPhoneography practice – beyond what I wrote this morning.  One of the things I have discovered is that there is a certain amount of animosity about the whole name iPhoneography and it depends which blog site you were following it was either iPhoneography or iPhotography.  Either way the iPhone appears to have had a profound impact on photography as a whole since it was launched. It certainly has had on my photographic practice.

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 89 – Revisiting the Past

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Guthlac

iPhoneography -IMG_0106 - People on Boat - London

The memory plays tricks on you – especially when you are not as young as you once were.  This morning I’ve been undertaking some research on image captured by an iPhone and I thought that I had been making these images from almost the date that I bought my first iPhone – March 2009.  However, it turns out that I didn’t really start until 2010.  The first blog entry with the tag iPhoneography also dates back to May 2010.

Now this is interesting because this is also the year that I started to realise that I wanted to draw and paint.  I have no idea whether at some unconscious level ( well der of course you won’t) this was me rejecting my previous photographic life and embracing the new or is it just the clarity that 20/20 hindsight give you?

Whatever the case may be this is one of the first images I captured with an iPhone and bothered to keep. I reprocessed it this morning which once again raises the question just when was a photograph made?

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Project LV One – Day 88 – Ink Sketch

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Guthlac

Nude Male Ink Sketch 01

 

 

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Project LV One – Day 87 – Woman

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Guthlac

Young Asian Woman

 

 

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