Ian Ker
Profile
I’m semi-retired but busier than ever, having spent most of my career working in areas that the mainstream finds difficult to deal with.
Recently regenerated interest in photography sparked by meeting a poet who put some of her poems to my pictures. These are now starting to appear on Near and Far. We hope you’ll take a look. The pictures are available separately, but only at the Near and Far site.
See all my redbubble pictures at A Rhymer’s View of the World
I guess my philosophy is summed up in this quote from Leszek Kolakowski (Winner of Kluge Prize, 2003 – Nobel equivalent for humanities and social sciences): “It may well be that the impossible at any given time can become possible only by being stated at a time when it is impossible.”
About the ‘handle’:
Thomas the Rhymer was a medieval Scot from the border country (between England and Scotland), which is where my family originally comes from.
Thomas the Rhymer was shown three roads by the Elf Queen.
One is beset with thorns and leads to heaven.
One is fair and lovely and goes to hell.
One is green and leads to the faerie lands.
All three roads seem to me to be worth exploring. I suspect that, in the words of Don McLean, “all roads lead to where I stand”! The interest is travelling not in arriving.
Redbubble Home Page Feature, July 2009
Featured Member:
I Love Birds, August 2009.
Odd One Out
Group Icon, Anything Theatrical
Winner, Feature Banner, Escher and Perspective Art
Equal first in Train Tracks Challenge in Art By Bubble Hosts Group, 3 December 2009.
Voted Top Ten in Challenges
Black & White Brighton: A Mini Challenge
Sepia Sity Challenge in Cityscapes and City Skylines, November 2009
Shapes in Cathedrals and Churches in the Shapes and Patterns Group, September 2009.
Patterns in Tiles and Brickwork challenge in the Shapes and Patterns group, September 2009.
Food and Drink , Still Life !!! challenge in the “Retired and Happy”: group, August 2009.
Flower Power challenge in the Shopfronts Group, August 2009.
Reflections and the City Challenge, 31 July 2009.
WA – the ultimate icon challenge in the Australian Landmarks and Icons group, July 31 2009.
Tas – The Ultimate Icon Challenge. July 2009
Features include:
Groups
Ian Ker hosts County Durham and is a member of "All parks", "Old Things - 3 per Day", "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), *A Beautiful Blur, A Night somewhere....., A Place To Call Home, About Time, After Dark, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, All Original Blends, All Things Brighton Beautiful, All Things Pubs - 3 a day, Alphabet Soup (Letter O), Anything Theatrical, Architectural Details, Architectural Photography, Architecture and cityscapes, Art By Bubble Hosts , Art North West, At the edge, Australia! You're Standing In it...., Australian Bush ☼ (aspects of realistic Landscapes - ie N0 Abstracts or Macros please!), Australian Landmarks and Icons, Backyard Photography (NO MACROS, DOGS, CATS, INSECTS, SKYSCAPES), Beach Art, Benches, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Black and White Photography, Blooming Trees - 2 per day, Both Sides Now, Bridges, Capital cities of the World , Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Cityscapes and City Skylines ~ ALL THINGS "CITY" , Cottage Style, COUNTRY ROADS / around the World, Cumbria.....Outside The Park (3 in 24hrs), Dilapidated Buildings, Dimensions, Domestic Art - [2/24, NO PEOPLE, PETS, or FLOWERS. INSIDE shots only.], Dorset, England, Double exposure, Escher and Perspective Art 5/24, Fabulous Flowers, Food for Thought, For the love of Canon - 2 Images per day with type of Canon camera used, Friends of RedBubble, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Heritage in Stone, Heritage Listed and Other Trusts Sites World Wide, Historic Places *2 per day*, Human and Nature, I Love Birds, Industrial landscapes, Iron Horses Old and New, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Leaves , Light and Reflection 1/24, Light up My Life (all about lamps), London Architecture, Masterpiece: Photography, Melbourne & Victoria, Mills & Mines, Minimalism, MIRTH (Members Images Relating To Humour), Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Mysteries of the Common(2 per day), NIGHT or LOW LIGHT Photo's, Night Photography, North East England, Northern landscape, Odd One Out, Old & Rusty, Old farts of redbubble, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Perspectives, Perth, Photography 101, Piers and Jetties, PostCard Style (Describe your image please) Limit 2 per day), Powered by Steam, Proteas, Leucadendron, Leucospermum, Orothamnus & Serruria, Public Art, Queensland, Railway Art and Photography, Reflections in Building Windows 2 per day, Reflectivity, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Rivers and Streams, Room With A View, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Sepia Only, Shadows & Reflections, Shameless Self-Promotion, Shapes & Patterns - Limit of 2 images per day, SHOPFRONTS , Shots in the Fog, Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs!, Silhouette, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, South East UK, Still Life Photography, Streetscapes, Sun Rays.., Sydney Opera House & Harbour Bridge., TABLES AND CHAIRS, The 100 - 499 VIEWINGS GROUP, THE 500 TO 5000 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Ashes - Australia vs England - 2 per day, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The FENCE group, The Lake District - National Park - 3 A Day, The Scavenger Hunt, The Urban Environment, This is England, Timber and Water, Trains, Transport, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, TUNNEL VISION (photography only), UK to Australia and Back, Unwanted , Abandoned & Saved Through Preservation., Urban Art , Wall of the World , Wessex UK - ancient and modern, WESTERN AUSTRALIA (3 per day), Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways, and railways, Who Needs Color For Beauty? - Black & White Art At Its Best and Windows and Doors.
Journal Entries
Equal first in a challenge
Posted 8 days ago.
Three features overnight
Posted 12 days ago, 1 comment so far.
Two More Calendars
Posted about 1 month ago.
First Sale(s)
Posted 2 months ago.
Two overnight features in one group
Posted 2 months ago.
First Calendar
Posted 2 months ago.
Another personal feature
Posted 3 months ago.
And a Personal Feature
Posted 4 months ago.
Three features in one group overnight
Posted 4 months ago.
