Contents
Eric Williams - ‘The Pleasure Pier’ Peter Young - ‘Time for Coffee’ Sally-Ann Hathaway-Timms - ‘One Frosty, Foggy Morning’ Dr. Charles Ashton - ‘Unite for Freedom!’ Stewart Bourne - ‘Metamorphosis’ Clive Haynes - ‘A Moment Stilled’ Nigel Reader - ‘Covid Street’ Tessa Mills - ‘Empty’ (continued) Kaz Diller - ‘Eleven Gasoline Stations’ Maddy Pennock - ‘Over The Hills and Far Away, Same Walk – Different Camera and/or Lens’ - continued Lucy Allum - ‘Plant Patterns’ Judy Knights - ‘How Did They Do It!’ Bob Oakley - ‘Orders is Orders’
Eric Williams The Pleasure Pier
I was looking forward to photographing Weymouth Pier during our recent trip to the south coast. And then I discovered it was called the Pleasure Pier - what photographic gems awaited? This set of iPhone images captures the fun and frolics of the Pleasure Pier together with the numerous signs dotted around the pier encouraging people to really enjoy themselves!
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02_Impressive Pier
03_No Going Here
04_Or Here
05_Just Don’t
06_And I Mean No
07_Even The Fort Says No
08_Don’t Even Think About It
09_No Entry
10_Just Don’t Do It
11_You’re Welcome to Weymouth
Peter Young
Time for Coffee
On a cold misty morning in the High Street, what better than to park your dustcart and pop into McDonald’s for a warming drink. But for others who would normally ‘dine in’, they must now brave the winter chill and consume their takeaway coffees out in the street. And maybe chat to other passersby. This is also the time for preparing for the Christmas market, still an unknown quantity, and trying to hold on to a positive outlook.
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Sally-Ann Hathaway-Timms
One Frosty, Foggy Morning
These images were taken in November one frosty, foggy morning. absolute joy to see and capture the magic as it unfolded before me!
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Dr. Charles Ashton
Unite for Freedom!
I continue to explore how the current Covid-19 pandemic has affected various On the backdrop of the Covid 19 pandemic a collection of Alt Right, Libertarians and Anti Vaxxers assembled in Trafalgar square to protest. This is a collection of photo-journalistic style images from the day. I saw aggressive disapproval, dissent, anger and denial of science from disenfranchised minorities, tempered with a stoical and restrained response from the police.
Charles Ashton 01 Civil Liberties
Charles Ashton 02 Freedom Now
Charles Ashton 03 Free Food
Charles Ashton 04 Covid Trobadour
Charles Ashton 05 Wearing the Flag
Charles Ashton 06 Conspiracy
Charles Ashton 07 The Pubs are the Soul of England
Charles Ashton 08 Rage
Charles Ashton 09 Denial of Science
Charles Ashton 10 Confrontation
Charles Ashton 11 The new abnormal
Stewart Bourne Metamorphosis
Current restrictions on movement and necessary risk avoidance have meant that most of my photographic wonderings and gazings have been severely curtailed. This provides an opportunity to re-examine some of my existing images and metaphorically, ‘re-take’ them by grouping them together with some form of new narrative idea, or link. For extra sport I only allow myself 20 minutes or so for this process. This set of images is linked by the idea of metamorphosis from artificial to real in our perceptions of ‘human’ and the human form and all the symbolic associations that this evokes. There is only one real human in the images.
Stewart Bourne 01 Genesis
Stewart Bourne 02 Gestation
Stewart Bourne 03 Birth
Stewart Bourne 04 Childhood
Stewart Bourne 05 Young Adult
Stewart Bourne 06 Uncertain Transitions
Stewart Bourne 07 Metamorphosis Stage 1
Stewart Bourne 08 Metamorphosis Stage 2
Stewart Bourne 09 Metamorphosis Stage 3
Stewart Bourne 10 Metamorphosis Stage 4
Stewart Bourne 11 Incarnation
Clive Haynes A Moment Stilled
Although poppies represent slumber and remembrance, their fragile, colourful bobbing dance is also emblematic of summer. My series of images represents the fleeting beauty of these delicate, paper thin flowers as they curtsy, nod, overlap and flutter upon the air. red bonnets weave and flicker frail origami poppies in the meadow breeze
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Nigel Reader
Covid Street
This series of mostly local images doesn’t lay any claim to originality or special insight but sums up the mood generated by the ubiquitous, unseen presence that is Covid 19. It is sometimes said that a crisis always carries with it an element of opportunity as well as danger, but as we emerge from a second lockdown it is hard to shrug off the air of simple resigned melancholia that seems to pervade.
Nigel Reader 01 Is There Anybody There_
Nigel Reader 02 New Rules
Nigel Reader 03 Giving Up
Nigel Reader 04 Bored Board
Nigel Reader 05 Town Square
Nigel Reader 06 Fenced Off
Nigel Reader 07 Alcohol Free
Nigel Reader 08 White Out
Nigel Reader 09 A Better Future
Nigel Reader 10 Art
Nigel Reader 11 Black and White
Tessa Mills Empty
This set is a development from my ongoing 'Empty' series. Lockdown has a quality of emptiness, loneliness and futility.
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Kaz Diller
Eleven Gasoline Stations
Landscape photographers generally search out pristine, uninhabited, aestheticised, carefully framed compositions. However, I do not live in this idealised world. My reality is unstructured, fragmented and chaotic. The world I inhabit most of the time comprises buildings, roads, cars and petrol filling stations. I have photographed these scenes that I encounter daily, democratically.
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02 Hellesyit, Norway, 2019
03 Maizuru, Japan, 2019
04 Puglia, Italy, 2019
05 Namibia, 2015
06 Karatsu, Japan, 2019
07 Kagoshima, Japan, 2019
08 Busan, South Korea, 2019
09 Maizuru, Japan, 2019
Maddy Pennock
From the series; Over The Hills and Far Away Same walk – different Camera and/or Lens
This is a continuation of images taken on the same walk over different days during the Covid-19 pandemic. I bought a new lens! This time a Lensbaby Composer Pro with Edge 80 Optic that gives a slither of subject matter in focus and the rest is left like a dreamy landscape. Images 1 – 3 are with this lens. Images 4 – 11 were taken with my 70 – 200 lens on a recent foggy morning, as the fog began to lift. Both were with my Canon 5D MK IV. .
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Lucy Allum
Plant Patterns
Patterns are everywhere, but it's very easy not to notice them. I get great enjoyment out of seeing patterns in nature. I remember when a friend of mine was studying textiles at art college many years ago, her lecturer saying, “look to nature for inspiration�. All these images were taken either in my garden or on one of my local walks.
Lucy Allum 01 Poppy
Lucy Allum 02 Air Bubbles in Ice
Lucy Allum 03 Broken Tree
Lucy Allum 04 Cotinus Patterns
Lucy Allum 05 Ice Patterns
Lucy Allum 06 Log
Lucy Allum 07 Leaves on water
Lucy Allum 08 Ground stripes
Lucy Allum 09 Rose petals
Lucy Allum 10 Tree tops
Lucy Allum 11 Water Drop
Judy Knights
How Did They Do It?!!
A month or so ago, looking for somewhere new to visit we went to Much Wenlock Priory. The ruins of this once massive building are very impressive. For me when visiting these sites I never cease to marvel over how they were built so many centuries ago and that what is left continues to remain standing. These Priory buidings were started around 1200 but built on the site of a much earlier monastery. The standing columns are massive and and the decorative stonework intricate , truly amazing when you consider the limited tools that were available at the time. How will our modern buildings stand the test of time?
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Bob Oakley
Orders is Orders
As we go about our daily lives we are increasingly assaulted by signs that attempt to tell us what to do, what not to do and how we should conform to their rules and suggestions. In some cases the force of the law is behind the sign but in others it is at the whim of the person or company who put up the sign. Will we obey?
Bob Oakley_01-West Midlands Safari Park
Bob Oakley_02_Tyre Depot in Kidderminster
Bob Oakley_03_Plea from light sleeper
Bob Oakley_04_Birmingham
Bob Oakley_05_Danger of Death Keep Out
Bob Oakley_06_No Swimming
Bob Oakley_07_Report to Reception
Bob Oakley_08_Notice in Hereford Shop window
Bob Oakley_09_Rostock Germany - No Nazis
Bob Oakley_10_Symbols of exclusion
Bob Oakley_11_Ordered to Smile
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