A brief intermission for some ‘objects’ from Lily’s early life

Lily

Just rearranging a few things on the hard disk and came across these things that I’d put on an early version of this website but were’nt there any more. I think they’re worth having albeit in the archive.

Varying from some pencil drawings of Lily and her cousins Matthew and Angus, to some early artwork by Lily and her very first sporting certificate !!

Lily’s artwork

Click Here I’ll keep posting things here from time to time when I remember. The first lot is a cake, a tiger and a drum.
     

I saw you in a crowd

Oxford Circus - a photo from the set A new set of six photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr. “I saw you in a crowd” is a mini, virtual show of some photos from my recent work trip to London. I was lucky enough to not be in a rush wherever I travelled, so i ended up walking to all the meetings. The temptation to take shots of all the landmarks was avoided and I got this idea into my head about isolating colours. I’ve done this a few times before and it’s fairly easy in Photoshop, but it’s a challenge to pick the right images to do it to. I think they’ll work better printed up than on the screen – they need a bit of space around them.

A clampdown on the freedom of artistic expression

Birmingham New StreetYes – I’m afraid all my paranoid fears are coming true. I was filling in time whilst changing trains at Birmingham New Street station by taking some photos of peoplle moving around the station, when I was ‘picked up’ by two undercover police officers interested in what on earth I was doing documenting a potential terrorist target like Birmingham New Street station. They took down my credentials and had a look at some of the photos. I didn’t even have time to edit the images and apply all the necessary filtering and cropping to make them look good – so slightly embarrassing on that score. I was a bit upset that they didn’t find my photos suitably controversial to censor them. Thast would have made me a more robust and convincing artist, but at least it means I’ve formally struggled to defend my art in the eyes of the law. Sort of.

Frozen barbed wire


Frozen barbed wire
Originally uploaded by Dave Haygarth.

Strange things afoot in Helmshore today. Ice winds and driving sleet and snow combined with a temperature above melting point – all the trees and fences had this layer of ice on them and thre trees made a crackling sound in the wind. Chilly. Background is our house in the distance.