Photo experiment

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, experience, Experiment, Hubby, Life, Photo, Photographer, Reflection, thoughtful, Youth2 Comments

Hubby did this in the 1980’s. It’s still up on the stairs. I don’t know how he did it. Is it a camera on a bench looking up to a lamp overhead and the hands interposed between the two? Or perhaps it’s a mirror on the wall with a tipped up lamp? I don’t even know if they are his hands, maybe he had someone place them in shot? It could be a bowl of water with a light reflected in it….

Do you know I’ve never asked him. Its just a dusty, fading photo. But it’s part of him, part of his idea of life, it expresses something about a younger person. Someone still in there.

Is it a ship?

Posted on January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fence, Grass, Hidden, Mirrored, Pathway, Photo, Poem, Poetry, railings, Sunset, the CroftLeave a comment

Is it a fence?

Yes it’s a fence…

Sunset scene,

Sky and clouds,

Metal railings

Holds us out.

Grass is green

The weather, clear

A place to walk,

But only accessed

By those that know

The way in,

Where to go?

An alleyway

Or footpath, so

Take a step

And find your way.

Enjoy the ending

Of the day.

Stars

Posted on January 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Antique, Fun, Green, Learning, Pattern, Photo, Repetition, Stars, Stylised, TessellationLeave a comment

Green stars abstract. Using a photo of an illuminated star. Duplicating it then changing the textures. The resulting image is a colourful abstract with an antique feel to it.

Pattern again, I like repeating images and tessellations. Must be the way my mind works… I like to learn and play with things till they look good. X

Fully open

Posted on January 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amaryllis, Flower, Green, Indoor plant, Kitchen, Petals, Photo, Pink, White, winter plantLeave a comment

Fully open amaryllis flowers. They cheer the kitchen up. I don’t think they will last much longer but they are beautiful at the moment. There is a pink blush on the edges of the petals and a green tint in the centre of the flower and running up the middle of the petals.

Tea at the Rabbit Hole Tearoom.

Posted on January 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cake, Fruit, Photo, Scones, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Tasty, Tea, Teapot, Tearoom, the rabbit holeLeave a comment

A good memory from a few years ago. Having tea with friends at the Rabbit Hole Tearoom in Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent.

We had been looking for somewhere different to visit and we had a friend coming down from Yorkshire. I had to book in advance but it was worth it. My memory is of a themed Tearoom around the Alice in Wonderland stories, with the white rabbit, mad hatter, dormouse and Queen of Hearts. The tea was lovely, cakes, scones, sandwiches, fruit. A pot of tea each.

It was a family themed Tearoom and it was very full. No social distancing in those pre covid days. I wish I could go back in time. Remembering those days is getting harder. But seeing old photos like this help to reassure me that things might one day be better. One day. When we can I hope this Tearoom will still be open.

The world turns

Posted on December 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Earth, Fun, Life, Light, Moon, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Space, spin, turn, WorldLeave a comment

It spins

It turns

It twists

It whirls

So fast

If you look up

The heavens

Shine above.

A day

A night

The moon

So bright

Over the world.

Last sunset of 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Colours, Penkhull, Photo, Sky, Stoke-on trent, Sunset, the Croft, Warm, WinterLeave a comment

We went out for a short walk locally as the sun started to set. The sky was very grey but there was a little patch of light in the south west, so I hoped it would possibly turn into a sunset. As you can see it did! I took lots of photos so I decided to do a sort of abstract compilation of some of them. I might try and line them up better later. So yes, this was the last sunset of 2021 here in my bit of the UK. In some places in the world midnight will have already been and gone. In others it’s probably only the morning. May your new year be good and safe. X

Reflected sky

Posted on December 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clouds, Colours, Hill, Layout app, Mirrored, Photo, Reflection, Sky, SunsetLeave a comment

I love doing this, mirroring a sky in layout app so it looks like the sky has been reflected in a calm sea or lake. I should try and draw on it to attempt to make the lower part look like real water. Possibly by adding slight wavelets or sparkling reflections. This was today’s sunset as the hill being our house was silhouetted by the growing dark.

Building up pattern

Posted on December 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bath scrubbing device, Design, Fun, Humour, Iterations, Pattern, Photo, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Layers and layers

Iteration after iteration.

An every day object

Transformation

Into patterns

Light and confusion

Twisted and tumbled

A muddled reunion!

Random

Posted on December 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 3d, Back scrubber, Blue, Colour, Duplicated, Imagined, Mirrored, Photo, Plastic, ThoughtsLeave a comment

Random design using a bath back scrubber as a starting point. I think it looks a bit like sea urchins with little feelers sticking out. Then again, it could be the inside of an alien spacecraft, or a sound deadening surface? Imagine this created in a 3d printer. What material, soft or hard, would it be made of? I could add paint to its surface to create a print, or use it to hold plant roots in… Imagination is fun.

Mallaband-Brown

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