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Deck Twelve

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Guthlac

Over the past few days I sort of lost my nerve when it came to producing likenesses of people. So I decide to take the plunge and just sit in front of the TV and sketch what was on. This was the result and I have to say it turned out a lot better than I feared. In fact it was rather invigorating just producing half a dozen or so quick sketches. Perhaps I’ll do it again.

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Not sure if I have posted this before – another from the archive

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Guthlac

This is an iPhotograph I produced sometime in the early part of last year and looking back at I think it is bit more interesting than I thought at the time. Now I’m not sure if I’ve posted this before.

Simon Marchini

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Reasonable representation

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Guthlac

Not a political statement but rather something you really must try and achieve if you going to make an image of a bird – in this case a Waxwing. This was produced by a mixture of drawing with a pencil and then colour added using Brushes. Not a bad result.

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Bizarre silliness

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Guthlac

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Another from the archive

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Guthlac

Not so far back – just 18 months. The significance of this image is that it one of the last I captured with my old camera gear. For the tech minded this was captured using a Canon 1D mkIII, Canon 300mm f2.8 plus 1.4 converter. I think it may well have been hand held as the exposure was 1/2000 sec at f8.

I picked up a similar set up not too long ago and it weighed a ton – strange how you quickly forget these things!

Simon Marchini

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Calke Abbey

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Guthlac

Another wonderful day at Calke – not too many photo ops – the light was too harsh.

Simon Marchini

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Waxwing

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Guthlac

This morning at Calke I had a slight pang of longing – last year I sold all my photographic gear which I had built up over the years with the purpose of capturing wildlife photographs – especially birds. One of the best ares locally for this was Calke Abbey. So there I was standing with my small Sony, taking some unsuccessful time lapse photos when up above were a flock of Waxwings. Now Waxwings were one of the birds I always wanted capture on camera but never managed and at that moment I just wish. Then reality crashed in a I remembered all the reasons why I moved and I regained a sense of proportion. Still for that moment I just wished.

So now I’m left with drawing the little blighters, a quick sketch attached and the surprising thing is I get as much fulfilment from this as anything I might capture as a photograph. The attached photo is now the best I can do – hay ho.

Simon Marchini

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Lilac Wine – I feel unsteady

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Guthlac

I think I have pulled out as many interesting images as I can from this set of photographs I captured on the 17th of October 2008. Must be something of a record only just over 4 years to process. Better later than never I suppose.

Simon Marchini

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