We went back in to Bristol yesterday to meet up with my daughter, Zoe, and three of our grandchildren, Ewan, Barney and Toby, with the intention of visiting a few more Gromit Unleashed 3 Sculptures. We decided to go in to the Clifton area of the city and pick off the five figurines located there.
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Gromit Unleashed 3 came to the streets of Bristol, UK at the end of June and runs through until 31st August 2025. Its the third time the characters, created by Aardman Animation, have popped up on the city streets to help raise money for The Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity.
Continue readingI thought I’d use Wordless Wednesday to post this image of a sculpture I saw in Bristol today. It’s a teddy on a swing hanging from a bridge.
I’m pretty wordless because I have no idea what this is all about other than it’s the work of French artist James Colomina. It’s located underneath Gaol Ferry Bridge, Southville, Bristol
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Upfest is a Street Art Festival that started in 2008 and up until recently ran once a year in the Bedminster area of Bristol. Here’s what it’s all about taken from the Upfest About Page on their website:
Continue readingThis week our Lens Artists Challenge host is Egidio.
“Complementary colours are those that sit opposite each other on a colour wheel.”
Reviewing our first wedding photography year
Having shot our last wedding of 2012 it was time to look back and assess how it had gone and where I wanted to go with my wedding photography. We’d gone into the year with about 50% of the weddings we worked on booked, the other 50% were late or short notice bookings. Going into 2013 I hadn’t advertised anywhere other than the work intranet. I was still getting regular enquiries, via word of mouth or being booked on recommendations by my clients from 2012. That was really nice, and encouraging.
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I had a bit of a shock earlier this week when I logged into the blog and saw the last article I’d posted was back in 2011, thirteen years ago! It was that long ago I’d forgotten I had a WordPress account and rediscovered my old blog whilst trying to set up a new blog….
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Having attended the Lovegrove studio workshop three weeks ago I set up a photo shoot of my own last weekend to see if I could put into practice all that Damien had shown us on the course.
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