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A picture of one of many much loved beach huts in West Wittering, near where our family recently spent a long weekend with friends on the Selsey peninsula near Chichester.
Selsey is one of many coastal towns that is beginning to renegotiate its [...]
Dutch artist Teun Hocks doesn’t cut corners. His striking images are carefully created using brushes and camera. No digital montage tricks: Hocks hand paints backdrops on which he then photographs himself in bizarre poses. His work exhibits a delightful sense of silliness. (Click to make bigger).
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His work has a whiff of Réné Magritte, but [...]
Hocks does all his own stunts, of course.:
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Miniature farming folk gather for a cool refreshing drink of Fenge at the end of a long working day.
Photos of a hitherto undocumented community of midget farmers have been discovered by a researcher in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
The researcher said that she was stunned that these tiny people had been overlooked for nearly a [...]
Last Sunday found our family in London’s Chinatown, celebrating Chinese New Year. The new camera was put through its paces in the brilliant low angle sunshine; quite challenging conditions for this small but versatile camera.
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This shot is a bit extreme in its contrasts. The little Panasonic has [...]
From the “Adršpach” Mountains 1999
Winter Graphics 1983
Hoarfrost in the “Jizerské” Mountains 2004
Some thumbnails of his photographic work here, but the enlargements have disappeared from that auction site now. If you click the thumbnails above, they will reveal the enlargements, however.
If you google his name, you come across an amazing story of a man with [...]
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been collecting images from my hard drive and cropping them to exactly 770 x 140 pixels. The reason for this is it’s the size of the header image on the portal style blog I set up for the students I teach at Ravensbourne College.
I’ve started with a [...]
But to be fair, the photographer was a bit tired. He’d walked 42 kilometres through the high mountains, taking four whole days to reach the ideal viewpoint for this shot.
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And he wasn’t using flimsy lightweight kit, either. Ten kilogrammes of camera gear can weigh awful heavy after a 42K [...]
There’s something truly inspired in Myoung Ho Lee’s work.
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He painstakingly erects gigantic white backdrops behind specimen trees and then photographs them, so as to disassociate the subjects from their contexts.
Erecting the backdrop using cherry pickers.
This image contains some intricate layers of meaning, especially when you figure that the tree must [...]
In a last ditch attempt to rescue the family upholstery business from ruin with his new and groundbreaking marketing concept that will “Make the parachute history”, young Gaston de la Vaulx (22) poses in front of his flying machine before the inaugural test flight. (June 1908. Agence France Presse)
Before climbing into the [...]