Cold weather photography

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

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This is my dream..a song for the asking

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Mixed media

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

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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

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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

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Lady in the black hat

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End of Day 2

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So the end of the second day working on the portrait.  I didn’t spend as long on this today but I feel it is moving forward and I am also trying not to rush things.  Also I have just completed my third video which took just over a day to edit – not bad for a 3:57 long video or should that be video art?  I have no idea where video art ends and film making begins and frankly I’m not that interested – unless I got nominated for the Turner then  that would be totally different.  This is not going to happen.

Simon Marchini 

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Geotagged iPhone Photograph Leads to Fugitive Software Tycoon’s Downfall

Geotagged iPhone Photograph Leads to Fugitive Software Tycoon’s Downfall
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/07/geotagged-iphone-photograph-leads-to-fugitive-software-tycoons-downfall/

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