Myriad Hoodies

PRIMARY - A set of primary colors is, most tangibly, a set of real colorants or colored lights that can be combined in varying amounts to produce many other colours. The set of red, yellow, blue is popular among artists.

RED BUTTON.... you don't press this, no matter how red or shiny it looks. ...but it is tempting is it not? It may only set our set-top box to record a TV show or start a nuclear event! How would we feel faced with MANY RED BUTTONS? See my image.

To capture a whole NATION in a single IMAGE. This is THE NETHERLANDS

JUST A BIT OF A BAD DAY?

It was a hard life being a mill worker and conditions in Manchester and Leeds were harsh with poor health resulting from industrial pollution. CHILDREN were routinely employed as they were small and nimble. Titus Salt planned and built a new village to demonstrate what could be done to keep skilled and unskilled workers fit and healthy. Before Saltaire new "town"... Salt's 3,500 workers travelled to Saltaire from Bradford. However, during the next few years, 850 houses were built for his workers. Saltaire also had its own park, church, school, hospital, library and a whole range of different shops. The houses in Saltaire were far superior to those available in Bradford and other industrial towns. Fresh water was piped into each home...

Part of my Berlin Wall series. The full set of images seeks to capture the role the wall played in the cold-war politics through art daubed into the wall itself. Graffiti of "Hope" in what for years appeared to be a hopeless situation.

RED LEATHER LABYRINTH

The shade/colour of IRON RUST is a superb strong colour in the buildings and details of Moroccan dwellings.

Donovan had a hit with "MELLOW YELLOW" reaching number 2 in the USA charts in 1966. Yellow is warm colour. Autumn colour. Hints of honeycomb, ripe autumn pears, lemons. Yellow, is strongly linked to these positive aspects:- optimism, happiness, sunshine, enthusiasm, confidence, “emotional strength”, friendliness, uplifting, “good self-esteem”. Not MELLOW at all.

I confess to not fully enjoying the shopping experience. Especially the "just looking for shoes or hand-bag" sort of aimless shopping. There are opportunities for image taking and even image making whilst shopping. These opportunities I salute.

Blue Guitars is the title the twenty-first studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea.

Flowers are amazing in the array or colours they exhibit.

THERE IS SOMETHING WHOLESOME ABOUT THE NUMBER 10. FIRST 2 DIGIT NUMBER, NUMBER OF TOES / FINGERS AND A SPEED LIMIT WE HOPE NOT TO BE TRAPPED INSIDE OF. BEING INSIDE A FIXED CIRCLE CAN BE COMFORTING AND SAFE OR A FEELING OF ENTRAPMENT.

LONE TREE at BEACH-SIDE

From sun into moon.

ALL MY OWN IMAGES and creativity by my heart/brain. Tools/work using Photoshop. The age of steam changed every aspect of life. FRESH Food could be sourced with better health benefits, engineering and production was more efficient and the nation prospered. But at a stroke of a politician's pen, the steam era ended abruptly to make way for "progress" and the diesel age. STEAM was sidelined and forgotten. Coal was a hazard to the Ozone layer so was largely banned and mines closed. But what happens when the oil runs out? hummm... maybe reopen coal mines and re-engineer modern steam transport? I wonder!

Take a quite seat and enjoy the most visited place in all Morocco. The Majorelle Garden is a two and half acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist, Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930's.

The LAST SUPPER Durham, ENGLAND. This is a larger than life sculpture and carving installation using standing trees intricately carved,so that,standing in exactly the correct spot, the 13 individually carved tree for a single tableaux. Sound dull , but when you see it , you are well amazed. It is awesome. The artist was Colin Willbourne then artist in residence at Durham Cathedral.

Part of my Berlin Wall series. The full set of images seeks to capture the role the wall played in the cold-war politics through art daubed into the wall itself. Graffiti of "Hope" in what for years appeared to be a hopeless situation.

Part of my Berlin Wall series. The full set of images seeks to capture the role the wall played in the cold-war politics through art daubed into the wall itself. Graffiti of "Hope" in what for years appeared to be a hopeless situation.

PENGUINS with Absolute EVERYTHING is a short series of creative images inspired by a visit to cold southern lands. Their distinct tuxedo-like black and white appearance is called countershading, a form of camouflage that helps keep them safe in the water. Penguins are poetic, artistic, and intellectually gifted. Graceful and energetic in water living in hostile sea with equally hostile predators that hunt them mercilessly. They are TRUE SURVIVORS.

The waters of the Greek islands are amazingly clear allowing views deep into the waters. In shallows the sea bed can be seen with hints of life below. The calmness is stirred by the inter-island ferry services that are the life-blood of these islands. Prime viewing position at the stern of the Blue Star Ferry as it leaves Santorini bound for Nexus. No one image can fully capture the movement, colour variations of this brief phase on the sea crossing which changes once deep-water is encountered. The set of 8 shown forms a carefully crafted panel.

Child growing up with NO toys playing where sign points to ADULT games of POOL. Sad but true.

Swiss carnival day in Lucerne where the inhabitants really change from the normal Swiss control and reserved behaviour and go "wild".

Which one will you PRESS? Will the world, as we know it, come to an end? You decide! BTW There really is a RED BUTTON on the desk of the President of the USA and THANKFULLY it is not connected to ICB silos but to summon the butler to bring a "cola". PHEW!

I was inspired by watching PENGUINS.Their distinct tuxedo-like black and white appearance is called countershading, a form of camouflage that helps keep them safe in the water. Penguins are poetic, artistic, and intellectually gifted. Graceful and energetic in water living in hostile sea with equally hostile predators that hunt them mercilessly.

Seemingly BLACK sky at sunset, 2 lone horses and riders and miles and miles of empty beach to enjoy. PERFECT!

Too much relaxation can be harmful. Like EVERYTHING in life... it is a question of BALANCE. (Check out the album by The Moody Blues - A QUESTION OF BALANCE...which poses many questions about life.... Why do we never get an answer When we're knocking at the door With a thousand million questions About hate and death and war? because when we stop and look around us There is nothing that we need In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed...") HUMAN ODYSSEY. Experts research why we are here... unlikely survival and extraordinary emergence of Homo sapiens as the world's only global species.

Based on a huge number of "real" individual images including famous Gaudi chimney sculptures, created into a team; football team. The world knows that Barcelona is a football crazy city. This creative montage seeks to capture the passion, commitment, sheer force that football is in the whole city.

The humanoid mannequins are behind bars whilst the PENGUINS are FREE. PENGUIN fashion sense is perfect. BLACK and WHITE aways.

Swiss carnival day in Lucerne where the inhabitants really change from the normal Swiss control and reserved behaviour and go "wild".

MOROCCAN DESIGN and DETAILS. Marrakech is an amazing place. Inspire by song by Crosby, Stills and Nash 1969 - Marrakesh Express based on their trip of 1966;sounds so exotic, so special, so different. Sounds so relevant today. Not aged, still great music. "Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes Travelling the train through clear Moroccan skies Ducks, and pigs, and chickens call Animal carpet wall to wall ... Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express They're taking me to Marrakesh All aboard the train.All aboard the train. I've been saving all my money just to take you there I smell the garden in your hair Take the train from Casablanca going south Blowing smoke rings from the corners of my ...

You rarely see a 300m running race. It is not included in the Olympic schedule BUT there are world records.Multi-medal winning athlete Michael Johnson said the 300m was a BRUTAL racing distance. Mens record is actually held by Mr Johnson for the 300 meter dash with 30.85 seconds for 17 years until recently bested.

Swiss CARNIVAL - The WAITING. Swiss carnival day in Lucerne where the inhabitants really change from the normal Swiss control and reserved behaviour and go "wild".

When taking this "straight shot" of a male youth sheepishly using a spray can to daub the popular skate board area on the South Bank, London I felt it needed a strong frame as though boxing the image "in". This frame work came from shots taken earlier in the day at the Tate Modern gallery, housed as it is, inside a redundant power-station.

Key verse in the poem by Marriott Edger... So, straightway, the brave little feller, Not showing a morsel of fear, Took his stick with the horse's head handle And shoved it in Wallace's[lion] ear.