Nature-Study...

(1)

The scientific investigator (domestic short-hair, b/w)

... the object of the investigation in more detail (common frog, rufus, least common colouring)

(2)    Is this a slug I see before me????

(look carefully - what do you see?)

(3)

My mouse, hiding beneath the OED?

Paintings...

a photo captures a moment in time, a painting entraps an artist for hours...

Bank Holiday

Distance.... close-up... evening at the beach

Pencils without Barcodes....

Pencils without barcodes are on sale at the art shop today, 8 for £1.00.  This includes the normally expensive, coloured, water-colour variety.  What innocent fun for impecunious artists to select from the big tub of assorted pencils!

If pencils now come with bar codes, without these, they are obviously difficult to sell from the shop's point of view...  

Question is, What's next in line for compulsory bar coding?

Cars?  Holidays?  Maybe, if we're lucky, even houses?  Will there  be a sale of those without?  Where's it going to be held?

Pencils without Barcodes

More later...

I don't hang glide but I do love skies and beaches ... more pictures later...

The Way We Are photo 2

The Way we Are - photos

The Way we Were ...

A couple of family photos from 50 and 100 years ago... note the family in 1907: when I came to really study this photo I could see how carefully the photographer had designed the composition of the figures.  It's a painting done by technology, a portrait.  Each figure plays its part, and note how the children are totally fed-up with posing!

Even the tea party in 1951 are trying to pose - some of them (the aunt with the tea-cup and the wonderful hat) - this was taken with a time-release and the photographer is also in the picture.

Clarestory

Date 20 August 2008

Title "Clarestory" sounds like "clerestory", which is a kind of little high-up window, found in old buildings (esp cathedrals, churches etc) ... and also in old railway carriages!

Make of that what you will.

And a pun on the name, Clare, of the writer, who is a painter & a writer.... 

It's a small window on the world through my eyes.