Angel Of the Fallen

ANGEL OF THE FALLEN
digital print: shot and processed iPhone 3GS

Two weeks ago, despite inclement weather, I enjoyed a weekend at the Fairport Convention: an annual music festival held near the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire. Whilst there, I spent time with my cousin Kevin, a fellow genealogist, and together we visited just a few of the many beautiful Oxfordshire churches where our Romany ancestors were hatched, matched and dispatched. In one of them, I took a photograph of a war memorial from which I made the image posted here: I can't recall exactly which one it was, but possibly Tadmarden, where my 3 x great grand parents Moses and Lucrecia Smith buried two of their children. Moses and Lucrecia made baskets, nets and skewers, plying their wares around the villages of Oxfordshire and Northamptionshire. They slept in bender tents. and can't have made much money but, in true Romany tradition, they honored the resting place of their children with a beautiful gravestone.

I have somehow managed to loose all my pairs of distance spectacles and break the ones I use with the computer. Suddenly, the World looks like one of my photos...very disconcerting.

Le Livre D'Automne

Le Livre D'Automne

iPhone collage

We're going away on Thursday and there are one hundred and one things to do, but, of course, I can't focus on any single task.
So here is another collage that I made last night from a photograph taken and processed back in January. I can't recall how many, or which particular Apps were used but I have Renee, of Playing With Brushes, to thank for the inspiration! Thankyou Renee!


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Looking back at January Mourning

JANUARY MORNING

Series taken and processed: iPhone 3GS


These images have been developed from an iPhone photograph that I took during an early morning coach ride to London, back on January.

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Salvaged Fragments

Rispa's Gift





Joy Of Joys

I've had four nights of unbroken sleep, which is a record for me and can possibly be attributed to two things: Slowing right down and giving up coffee. Neither have been easy! Learning to be still and calm is a daily challenge for me and I feared I would not be able to get myself back into a creative routine. Now I'm allowing myself a little time, during the day, to conduct some iPhone experiments and I've returned to my love of all things scratched, mottled and only partially seen.


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Three iPhone Portraits

Three iPhone portraits to share this evening!

1. My nephew, known as H. Photo processed with PictureShow and CameraTan apps
2. My nephew Dan, H's older brother, processed with PhotoGene and CameraBag apps
3. My sister Prill, processed in PhotoFX and CameraBag apps

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The Big Society

Created with iPhone 3GS

Original images from London: A Pilgrimage, by Gustav Doré; and The Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1955

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__YOuU7ARI&feature=youtube_gdata

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Buried Treasure 2010

The Cabbage Field: original digital collage and versions reprocessed With iPhone 3GS

Clumber Street Shrine: panel 1. Original digital collage and versions reprocessed with iPhone 3GS

Clumber Street Shrine: panel 2. Original digital collage and versions reprocessed in iPhone 3GS

Clumber Street Shrine: panel 3. Original digital collage versions reprocessed with IPhone 3GS

The ever-generous Seth Apter has woken me from my blog-slumber by once more inviting fellow creative-bloggers to select and share something from our archives, for inclusion in his marvellous blog: The Altered Page. I've chosen to revisit a series of images that I was working on last year, just before I began my creative love affair with the iPhone. Rather than simply re-post, I've re-worked the collages on my iPhone. There is no definitive version of each photograph, but a series, suggestive of the passage of time.

Last year's Buried Treasure was a huge success and many new creative friendships were forged. Do pay a visit, but be warned: you could be glued to your computer for several days!

Just before you go, like to share the news that recently, I was a runner up in the Eye'Em Mobile Photography Awards. This is a new international contest, promoting the art of photographs taken using mobile devices. There were over 3000 stunning entries and I am thrilled that one if my photographs (posted below) was selected in the final 15. An exhibition showcasing the competition has been staged in Berlin and I understand that there is to be a publication. I'd like to thank the Eye'Em team for all their wonderful work, promoting this new artform.

A Boy's Own Story: digital collage. Runner-up in the Eye'Em Awards 2010

Here's the link to Buried Treasure 2010:

http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com

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