Compound
185 creative works found
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A different view of a common garden visitor.
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Yet another oil painting of a steam locomotive. This time we’re in about 1912 or so, and one ofg the (then) new Midland Railway compounds is pulling a train of clerestory stock.
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One morning in our hotel room in Shimoda, my wife went hunting for green tea in the fridge. I noticed her shadow cast against the shoji and asked her to pose. I love shoji for their ability to create privacy whilst giving the illusion of space through light..
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Too sad for apostrophes today… Graffiti near Lovell’s Wharf in Greenwich.
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Layer upon layer of bill-posters torn down from the walls of Bounds Green station.. Leaving a barely legible few letters intact.
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I imagine this shutter door was once navy blue, but time and the elements have taken their toll.
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I’m not a lover of heights, so I felt quite proud of conquering 5 flights of dark and flimsy gantries and stairs… This was my first ever attempt at light painting and I’m rather pleased with how my torch created a contrasting rusty glow to offset the cavernous black and blue abyss.
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inside the Officer’s Mess at RAF Binbrook… Soft lighting courtesy of one our legendary rainy days,- seemed to suit this more than stark sunlight might have done. This vast decaying labyrinth reminded me somewhat of the Tarkovsky film ‘Stalker’, although I didn’t find the room where one’s innermost desires are granted…
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This dead fly, found on window sill, gave me a static subject that allowed getting closer for greater magnification. / The dead fly’s colours were somewhat faded and some dust and cobwebs show up in the photo. / However, I still quite like the detail of the compound eye showing the thousands of ommatidia (tiny independent photoreception units).
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I’d just finished shooting ‘Charnel No.5’, turned around and stopped dead in my tracks - Once I’d remembered how to breathe again I realized this could well be the the shot of the day. Can’t imagine being more pleased with how it turned out. The Flickr Sprites really were on my side this time…
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A Praying Mantis cleans its spiked forelegs after devouring a butterfly. The praying mantis is named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer. The larger group of these insects is more properly called the praying mantids. Mantis refers to the genus mantis, to which only some praying mantids belong. By any name, these fascinating insects are formidable predators. They have triangular heads poised on a long “neck,” or elongated thorax. Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them. Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. They use their front legs to snare their prey with reflexes so quick that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. Their legs are further equipped with spikes for snaring prey and pinning it in place. Moths, crickets, grasshoppers, flies, and other insects are usually the unfortunate recipients of unwanted mantid attention. However, the insects will also eat others of their own kind. Some species have been known to devour snakes, hummingbirds, and small rodents. The most famous example of this is the notorious mating behavior of the adult female, who sometimes eats her mate just after—or even during—mating. Yet this behavior seems not to deter males from reproduction. Females regularly lay hundreds of eggs in a small case, and nymphs hatch looking much like tiny versions of their parents. Kingdom: Animalia / Phylum: Arthropoda / Class: Insecta / Subclass: Pterygota / Infraclass: Neoptera / Superorder: Dictyoptera / Order: Mantodea /
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Looking across the Grand Entrance, from the bar to the lounge, at RAF Manby.
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The ‘grand’ entrance of the Sergeant’s Mess at RAF Manby reminded me somewhat of the house where John McCabe finds Emily’s copy of ‘The Book of Eibon’ in Lucio Fulci’s ‘E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’Aldila’. For this effect I completely removed the red channel and burnt in the remaining image to accentuate the shadows.
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“Well I think it’s gonna be one of those nights, R.Whites…” This [enormous, rather heavy looking] fridge is practically the only thing not looted from the kitchens of the Sergeant’s Mess, I wonder why..?!! For this shot I propped up the Nightsearcher inside to get raking shadows through the shelves.
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The lighting & general arrangement in this corridor had an almost ‘old master’ feel to it… Whilst not the most exciting part of the Sergeant’s Mess, this has never the less ended up being my favourite shot from that outing.
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Powerplants stripped from dozers and excavators piled up at RAF Folkingham, awaiting repair or more likely disembowelment for spare parts. Hunkered down from the bleak wind, and shielding the lens from rain with my glove, I had a feeling it would all be worth while. Without blowing my own trumpet too much, I think this’d look great on a µ-Ziq CD cover…
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Honey bee looking through the flowers
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A nasty critter by nature, this Horsefly paid the ultimate price for his assault on me.
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by compoundeyeAfter battling with the sky to burn in some definition I stepped back, decided that it seemed to be boiling out of the nearest hopper in quite a dramatic fashion and that it was ok by me after all…
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The central section of the 3rd floor at ABM is a maze of low hanging ducts and floor mounted seed drills. There must have been a gantry at some point since it’s unlikely that workers would duck down to reach the far end of the room.
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Having an inordinate amount of complex structure for it’s minute size and mass, this planet reminded it’s finder of atomic particles…
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Digital colour change of my original signature piece ‘Busy Girl’ Having fun experimenting with digital. FEATURED in ‘Layered with Texture’ (July 2009) FEATURED in ‘Paintings Modern & Beyond – PiMT’ (July 2009)
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An old logo that should mean something to anyone of the internal combustion engine persausion…
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