Love Shack – just get down

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Guthlac

Simon Marchini 

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These foolish things

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Guthlac
It is amazing what a few years can do when think about the image you want to create from the RAW files.   It also helps when you are no longer worrying about image integrity, not that I have added or taken away anything these image other than the odd blemish which is allowed in the rules for the use of  wild life photography.  No all I have been interested in creating an images that are, well, interesting – no other motivation.  Of course what I find interesting now is somewhat different to what I might find interesting four years ago – such has been my creative journey.  This is really an interesting piece of art therapy and recommend it to anyone.

Never forget where your coming from as a well known popular poet said. 

Simon Marchini 

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Cold weather photography

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Guthlac
The other day I was reading about some place in Siberia where it is winter for over 200 days a year and the temperature can drop to – 50c.  Luckily the winters where I live aren’t nothing like that, in fact by international standards the winters in Britain, even the far North of Scotland, are really quite mild compared to what the should be – thank you gulf stream.  Anyway that doesn’t stop me from feeling the cold, especially when I’m out in the fading gloom of a another frozen day.   Seems that the frosts are to be replaced by nullifying fog – it seems it is true we Brits really are world champions when it comes to grumbling about the weather! 

Simon Marchini 

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The last temptations

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Guthlac
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This is my dream..a song for the asking

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Guthlac
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Mixed media

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Guthlac

I’m starting to see what happens when you mix digital with actual drawing. I suppose I’ve been doing this in some small way for some time but now it is a deliberate act. The images are a lot more interesting than in their original form so it will fascinating to see how this turns out. One word of caution – I could just as easily get bored with the whole thing in a day or so – one of the joys of having a butterfly approach to much of what I do.

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Art History

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Guthlac
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Some time ago I created a chronological list of artist from the medieval period to the present day – its aim was to help me to understand when which artists were active.  I’m now trying to recreate this as a computer document. It is not as easy as I thought!

Simon Marchini 

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Flooding

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Guthlac
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I’ve been through the archives today and found this image from January 2008 of flooding near to where I live.  Now this looks really bad until you realise that this is a flood plain and is actually part of the flood defences for Leicester some 5 miles down stream.  The reason why I mention it is that this was the last time we had any meaningful flooding and that the latest flooding has been as serve as this.  Now I don’t really know what this means – apart from the fact that it does not disprove in anyway global warming – I just thought it was an interesting observation.

Simon Marchini 

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Red lady

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Guthlac
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Lady in the black hat

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Guthlac
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