In the great scheme of things the hill isn’t that high but as with most things context if king. From the top of the hill you can see for miles around and on a late summer afternoon, with a gentle wind blowing, it can really be an enjoyable experience.
As I have bitched about in the past few weeks I have been trying to sort out my aging iMac to try and ring just a bit more life out of it before I have to bite the bullet and say goodbye. This has meant a lot of techy stuff and and even greater amount of housekeeping. By the end of yesterday I had had enough of all this so Imade these two little drawings to relieve the boredom/stress of it all.
For a series of complicated interconnected reasons I have been wading through my back catalogue over the past few days. As I did that I have found a few images that I thought worth giving a breath of freash air. Enjoy.
I have an ancient iMac that helps me produce all my digital output and just recently it has started to run out of puff when working with some of the very large files and new software. In a very real way my creative efforts mirror this problem and I don’t seem to be able to create images with pencil and camera at the same time: One users up all of my creative juices to the detriment of the other. This leaves me feeling I have neglecting the other. So I made the painting of Jessica as a direct result of my photographic work – the image had been started a couple of weeks ago and then I abandoned it. yesterday I came back to it and managed to finish it off.
In the meantime I visited the ever rewarding Hidcote Manor. Life is hard.
Jessie’s Girl?
I’m afraid I’ve become a particular kind of bore – an Apple Fanboy. I can’t help myself when I see the quality of the images that the latest iPhone helps create. These were taken yesterday at the Pia Camil exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary. To say that the light was challenging is an understatement yet the camera came through with flying colours.
Now I’m sure that the latest Samsung can produce images just as good – but I don’t use a Samsung and so all I can write about is the iPhone. It is coming up to 10 years since I bought my first iPhone and much of that journey has been documented on this blog. I suspect I may well get around to making a book to celebrate this decade.
I never really understood just how much Ernst Haas has influenced my photography until really quite recently.
For reasons I have no intention of going into here I have just bought myself a new camera and lens – not an entirely unheard of pattern of behaviour on my part. However at the same time my rather ancient copy of Adobe Lightroom stopped working – I don’t think the two are connected but you never know (Is that just a little bit too much InfoWars?). The upshot of this is that over the past few days I have been trying to master upgrades to my technology. Now this isn’t a problem it is just that I wasn’t expecting to have to do this all at once. Oh and there were problems with the Adobe licensing which meant having contact with the aforementioned software support system (They were actually very helpful but nonetheless added to complexity of the situation yesterday).
Feeling much better today…still had time make a painting – 3/4 finish I think?
Getting old is really shit! I am told that my body is no older than 7 years as cells are constantly being replaced – its my DNA is just screwed up as over the years it picks all sort of crap. Well let me tell you it can keep all that crap!
To top all this I just can’t believe what the President of the USA has just done – sided with a foreign country over the one he is supposed to be leading. Hasn’t helped my mood but then again I always thought he was an idiot so I guess we are getting exactly what I expected. Doesn’t make it any easier.
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