Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts

How Many?

How Many

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Photo Number: 270-365
Date Taken: Sunday 27 September 2009

As you know signs are one of my pet photo subjects and therefore an enthusiast such as myself gets uncontrollably excited when I turn a corner and see this in front of me. In fact there are even more signs than can be seen in the picture, if I change my angle you can see the ones obscured behind but it’s a double edge sword because achieving that means some of these are obscured. I spent a little time to give you the best representation.
 
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Artist Talk

Artist Talk at Solihull Arts Complex

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Photo Number: 267-365
Date Taken: Thursday 24 September 2009

Mark Tilley was delivering his Artist Talk for his show Green Water at he Solihull Arts Complex this evening. This piece was made for his father in laws 90th birthday present, it’s a sort of time/date dial strategically positioned when the sun shines between two spokes(?) its his birthday. Clever.

 
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I Don’t Know What To Make Of This

I Don’t Know What To Make Of This

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Photo Number: 266-365
Date Taken: Wednesday 24 September 2009
This billboard has caught my eye for a few weeks now. A little background Birmingham City Football Club is changing ownership any time now and speaking as an impartial onlooker I don’t know if the out going owners have been good or bad for the club and when I speak to fans they too are divided. Perhaps I can sum the situation up with this offer, Bolton are not exactly a top attraction anyway and an ideal game to drop prices to get the attendance and atmosphere up.
 
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Monday Night at Ravenshill Chippy

Monday Night at Ravenshill Chippy

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Photo Number: 264-365
Date Taken: Monday 21 September 2009

Driving back from my dads tonight I noticed that the roads are very quiet and as I came to the small row of shops they too were in darkness apart from the chip shop, bright and welcoming for those on the last bus from town. Jump off and grab some fish and chips and eat them on the walk home.
 
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Mark Tilleys Exhibition at the Solihull Gallery

Mark Tilleys Exhibition at the Solihull Gallery

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Photo Number: 261-365
Date Taken: Thursday 17 September 2009

Mark is a Solihull based sculptor who has a show at The Solihull Art Complex, the private view was this evening I have been looking forward to taking this photograph for a few months I was there in April when Mark fired the kiln

http://johngarghan.blogspot.com/2009/04/sculpture-mark-tilley-fires-his-kiln.html

so I’m at the start of the process and at the end. The show was well supported with Marks friends from the Solihull Artist Forum http://solihullartists.co.uk/
 
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Freddie Watches Over The Kids

Freddie Watches Over The Kids

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Photo Number: 249-365
Date Taken: Sunday 6 September 2009

It was the final home game of the first class cricket season today, I went with my grandsons and my camera, I was particularly interested in some photographs of the ground before the bulldozers move in for a major redevelopment. During the break we went to get food and drink and I found lots of impromptu games taking place under the grandstands, a mixture of rules, abilities and ages, all using huge rubbish bins for wickets. Nothing has changed from when I used to take part as a schoolboy when rain stopped play although we didn’t have our heros protecting us.

 
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Contrasts

Contrasts

Photo Number: 241-365
Date Taken: Saturday 29 August 2009
Looking at my previous 365 photographs I realised that I rarely visit the city centre of Birmingham, let’s put it another way when I have gone to the city I’m in a hurry so there are very few pictures from there. I pass these buildings often on the Bristol Road but because of the amount of traffic I cant pull over to take the shot, today I took advantage of a quiet weekend road.
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Jeremy Has Sketched the Great and The Very Good

Jeremy Has Sketched The Great and The Very Good

Photo Number: 240-365
Date Taken: Friday 28 August 2009

Jeremy doesn’t live near me so only visits our park occasionally (come to think of it I never visit his park – must do) He is a classical musician and used to play with the City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and in the orchestra at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon. He is a compulsive artist always with his sketch book and pencil in hand and generally he wears a beret which adds to the scene. He told me he would always be sketching from the orchestra pit while there was a brake in the music; he captured all the musicians, soloists and great actors over many years. Can you imagine the content of his many sketch books? I have been talking to him about exhibiting this work and it would certainly make a very interesting Artist Talk as part of the show.

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Not Enough Goal Celebrations

Not Enough Goal Celebrations

Photo Number: 239-365
Date Taken: Thursday 27 August 2009

I went down the Villa tonight for the first home game in the inaugural Europa League 1-0 down from the away leg we won 2-1 on the night but failed to progress in the competition because Rapid Vienna scored that all important away goal (which is worth double if the tie is drawn)

Villa Park Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna

Another photograph from tonight's game
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