Denis Dalby
Profile
I am primarily a photographer, but I have also worked in ceramics, sculpture, painting and drawing. I am very much involved in the local jazz/improv scene and played alto sax for many years. I enjoy reading and visiting galleries, exhibitions and going to concerts of all kinds of music. I love walking/hiking in the beautiful countryside around Yorkshire. I write occasionally, poetry and short stories. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire. UK.
Groups
Denis Dalby is a member of Bubble Jeopardy, All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, Complex Simplicity of Art, Yellow Gallery, ! Creative Writing & Poetry !, "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), Abstract Macro Urban Art (eg Grungy), Abstract Realism, All Things Brighton Beautiful, All things Coffee, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Anything Theatrical, Architecture and cityscapes, Artistic Motion Blur, Beige is death!, Benches, Black and White Photography, Bridges, Candid Photography, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Classic Cars Worldwide, Colors of Water, Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Contemporary Architecture, DaDa Land, Dilapidated Buildings, Dimensions, Dirty pretty things., Escher and Perspective Art 3/24, Everything Winter, Fabulous Flowers, Food for Thought, Globes, Spheres and Curves - 2 per day, Green!, Haiku - The Art of Japanese Poetry, Hats and Hat Boxes, HDR Photography (3 Photos per 24hr-day), Heritage in Stone, History, Humour Captured, Iberia , in-between, Jazzed Up Art , Just Lines, Landscape Photography, Leeds City, Light and Reflection 1/24, Live Music Photography - 2 per day, Lost in Space [75% Negative Space], Metallic Junktion, Minimalism, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), My Child's Art, Nautical, Object Studies & Concepts, Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, Photo-Zen, Piers and Jetties, Pop Art, Reflectivity, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, SHOPFRONTS , Simple by Design, Something To Say, South East UK, Statues and Such, Street Photography and Photojournalism, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, the love of Eerie and enchanting artwork, The Urban Environment, THE WAIST UP - Portraiture Photography 2 per 24 hour limit, The Word Tree, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, UN!TY , United Kingdom, Urban Art , Vibrant and Vivid Color, Wall of the World , We Rock: Musical Instrument Art, Windows and Doors and Yorkshire Grit.
Journal Entries
An appeal for help.
Posted 12 days ago, 10 comments so far.
Leeds Jazz - Ancient and Modern
Posted 20 days ago, 6 comments so far.
Home page feature!
Posted about 1 month ago, 20 comments so far.
Wellwaddyaknow!
Posted 3 months ago, 3 comments so far.
Benches feature
Posted 4 months ago, 3 comments so far.
In an internet cafe innit!
Posted 4 months ago, 5 comments so far.
Forgive me!
Posted 4 months ago, 7 comments so far.
Urban Art Feature
Posted 5 months ago, 6 comments so far.
I'm back... OK!
Posted 5 months ago, 8 comments so far.
Guess what?
Posted 5 months ago, 9 comments so far.
Art
Writing
Free Improv Style
Baritone clarinet honks and shouts / The drums attack see the band stride out
I'm On The Bus
We are on the number 40 bus travelling out of Leeds town centre. Women 1 / Excuse me driver, am I on the wrong bus? Bus Driver / Don’t know love, what bus do you want to be on? Women…
This Child
After waiting so long / Through a scanner sweetly
New Old Jazz Blues
When Ornette played the blues / He blew with passion not fashion / Freeing jazz from restriction / With conviction
The Decorator
Dragons will die today / On chests and backs. / Love/Hate clenched fists / Will swell the ranks of / Skinhead fighters
Cappucchino
With warm brown fuller flavour / That’s what really perks me up
