9,000 Hours – 90% Review
9,000 – touchingly close to the 10,000 hours of deliberate practice theoretically required to master the art of photography – review to date Please post any comments below To Read more click on the link (more…)
Summer 2024
8,758 to 9,017 of 10,000 hours mastering photography through structured deliberate practice To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)
Five Hours at the Pompidou Centre
I am generally a man with a short attention span, half an hour at a gallery or exhibition is generally enough, an hour or more is exceptional. The Pompidou Centre maintained my rapt attention for over 5 hours with only the briefest stops for rehydration (the above image is not my photo) (more…)
“Female British Artist”
On the 15th April of this year Sotheby’s New York sold Leonora Carrington’s 1945 “Les Distractions de Dagobert” for $28.5m setting a new record for a female British artist. However, if we remove the words “female” and “British”, she doesn’t make Wikipedia’s list of the top 89 most expensive paintings. In fact, no women artists…
Revised: Top 10 Painters
This is both a post in its own right (an update to the list I wrote at hour zero of this project) and an accompaniment to the “Female British Artist” post being written at the same time (more…)
Spring 2024
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Tate Modern Review: Yoko Ono
February to 1st September 2024 – Floor 2, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, SE1 9TG (more…)
Tate Modern Review: Capturing the Moment
One of the many apocryphal tales of Picasso holds that he conceived cubism following an opium induced dream in which the role of the painter was relentlessly belittled by the unstoppable rise of photography. Certainly, for portraiture and similar images, photography is a cheaper and more convenient means of creating a record. However, the Tate…
Winter 2023/ 24
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Horror Effect – Adding Blood from the Eye in Photoshop
Creating the classic horror effect of blood from the eye in photoshop. Or in the case above perhaps the biblical blood from a stone. (more…)
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Autumn 2023
Seasonal review of 10,000 hours deliberate practice mastering photography Summer 2023. To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)
After 8,000 Hours – 80% Review
Nearly 6 years into this project and after 8,000 hours of deliberate practice learning photography, I am 80% of the way through this project, and perhaps should be 80% of an expert. This makes me feel pressured with regard to how little has been achieved in the 80% and how far there is to go…
Most Influential Photographers and Other Artists
A quick run through of some of my most significant influences. (more…)
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Road to an RPS Associateship in Landscape Photography
Successful Panel: “Trees of Stoke Common” On 11th October 2023 I was awarded an Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in Landscape Photography for the above panel. This post documents the nearly 3 year journey from early ideas in January 2021 and first creating a panel of 15 images, to being able to put ARPS…
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Summer 2023
Seasonal review of 10,000 hours deliberate practice mastering photography Summer 2023. To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)
Setting Up the Sony a1
It is now a year since I became the proud, and slightly intimidated, owner of the Sony a1, above. (See “My Kit – Cameras and Lenses”). This is a powerful camera designed to be customised to suit the individual workflow of the photographer. Initially this flexibility seems overwhelming, but this post describes how I have…
Revised Thoughts on Art
The purpose of this post is to update, and entirely contradict, my first post on “What is Art?” written at hour zero of this project, in November 2017. (more…)
Spring 2023
Seasonal review: 10,000 hours deliberate practice photography spring 2023. To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)