Recovering from my bruises I’ve had time to think. All my life I said I wanted to be somebody. I can see now I should have been more sp…
Recovering from my bruises I’ve had time to think. All my life I said I wanted to be somebody. I can see now I should have been more specific. / When I was eight I had a teacher who I thought was wonderful, mainly because she believed there was more to early education than the repetitive chanting of numbers. She was also the art teacher and I glowed in that area. How I ended up in a high school for engineers and tech drawing buffs I have no idea but that’s when it all went pear shaped. I hated my time at school from then on. I seemed to attract school bullies. I was too ‘arty’ for them and at one point felt I was put on earth for no other reason than for kids to beat up. The only thing I took up at school was space. My parents had the impossible task of getting me there and short of setting about me with a sock full of billiard balls or using a chloroformed towel ……. no way! I ended up in the “naughty class” and the teacher was useless, no idea how to control creative kids. We must have picked up on that and had him marked down as the injured wildebeest limping on the edge of the herd. / My best mate at school was a guy called Jonnie Stick, which was odd because he was so thin he looked like he was made out of pipe cleaners. Jonnie had a Kodak Brownie 127 very popular camera in it’s day, made out of bakelite by the million. We would bunk off school together and ride the underground sharing the Brownie and taking shots of the passengers all day long. / His father worked in a chemist shop so we never had a source problem for film and he developed it for free. Jonnie had a wonderful knack of capturing people in morning mode and I always felt his photo essay of ‘Men in the smoking compartment’ was world class. / The years passed by and we lost contact after Johnnie and his family moved to Tasmania. I’ve often wondered what happened to him and his gift and always look out for something that suggests his work but you can’t watch everyone can you? Or maybe you can. / I get a great buzz when I find out that someone is watching me and feel quite special but my red bubble bursts when I find out they are also watching 756 other people. It takes the edge off if somehow. I know…………. fragile egos. / It reminds me of the gravestone that says “gone but not forgotten” but you have to pull all the grass away to read it.
Sleep is but a distant memory so I decided to look through some of the thousands of photos in my computer. I stumbled across the “phot…
Sleep is but a distant memory so I decided to look through some of the thousands of photos in my computer. I stumbled across the photo shoot that I did with my girls in the October school holidays. I had set up a studio in my loungeroom at home and the girls dressed up and posed for the camera. We had a ball as Axel would keep running into the shot or taking off with the tripod. These are a couple of the images from that day. There are tears streaming down my face as I remember this day with laughter and smiles…
Much thanks to Larry Varley for featuring “Smile”, “Passion” and “Vixen”! !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetai…
Much thanks to Larry Varley for featuring “Smile”, “Passion” and “Vixen”!
Thanks so much Red Addiction for buying I’m Happy...
Thanks so much Red Addiction for buying I’m Happy !!! You made my day!!! I am now making that happy face myself ;D ;D lol / I hope you and your sister will enjoy this card!! Here is some of RED ADDICTION’S Awesome artwork!!: Thanks so much!!!! :D
Peace was just featured in LIVING CHRISTIANITY and BITS AND PIECES groups, and “Make Me Smile” in the LIVE LOVE DREAM group..Thank you fr…
Peace was just featured in LIVING CHRISTIANITY and BITS AND PIECES groups, and “Make Me Smile” in the LIVE LOVE DREAM group..Thank you from my heart!
Foiled” was featured in E…
Foiled” was featured in Escher and Perspective … “Merry Christmas: “Here’s The Gobbler!”” was featured in Out of the Past More choices from Zazzle: Wear My Art – Check out Female Contemporary Art on Apparel here: THIS MONTH’S FEATURES
First day of October and I am delighted to say that I have been once again featured at the Paws n Claws group, this time with my image ‘S…
First day of October and I am delighted to say that I have been once again featured at the Paws n Claws group, this time with my image ‘Smiling Springer’. The shot was taken just outside the tiny village of Norham in north-Northumberland with my Panasonic Lumix G1, 45-200mm lens (1/800, f/4.1). The springer in question is Pippet, the daughter of Teal (who has also been featured) and sister of Tia. Herself and Tia are extremely competitive in all walks of life, whether it be who can catch the stick the quickest, who can hold on to the toy the longest and so forth… little did I know it would spill over into my photography! I will have to try and compose a worthy image of Tia to equalise the bragging rights :) Thanks again Paws n Claws If I am luck enough to have any more features this month I will include them under this journal heading rather than create a new entry each and every time. Cheers ;) UPDATE (October 16th, 2009) Well, I was starting to sweat a little in thinking that in writing the title of this journal that I may have typed too soon. However, the good people at Tone it Down (a group dedicated to good black and white images) decided to feature my image, ‘Tweed Woods’, this week. Thank you very much guys, I am amongst some really great images so I am very pleased. Cheers ;)
Put a smile on someones face =D !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/clothing/backgroundcolor:fafafa/bodycolor:white/size:large/style:me…
Put a smile on someones face =D This is my new panda tee Hope you like it =) / (you can also get it as a card!!) ~ Bekyyx
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