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Sweet soul eyes
16 Feb“Those true eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them.”
Owen Meredith 1831-1891
The Outsider
23 Jan‘Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.’ Kurt Vonnegut
Exhibition :: The Soul of the Ebony Rockers
9 Oct
To celebrate black history month, organised in Southampton in part by my good friend Don Jon manager of reggae band Ebony Rockers and race relations consultant, an exhibition of photographs (including some of mine) will be featured until end November at The Soul Cellar Southampton. Go see it or if you can’t? All of the fantastic photographers featured can be found at the wonderful www.johnnytoaster.co.uk
(Nice styling Toaster!)
Fields of Bliss…
16 JulSorry dear blog, it’s been too long, I got lost in the fields of the ‘shire there a while, come see…
Blissfields 2011
Faces ~ A project
20 MarI have started a project for 2011. Last year was macro flowers and nature and I am sure more of the same will follow as the bees buzz but this summer’s concentration will be of faces and portraiture. This man was playing guitar in Southampton City Centre precinct, he was shy initially when faced with the lense and then flashed me this irresistible dimple ridden smile. Flowers like faces have so much to say; a face can take on the nature of a canyon landscape and a flowers petals imitate the soft folds of delicate skin. Watch this space!
Launching the Burlesque Boudoir Photo~booth! ★
2 FebIt is a wild life after all so roll up up! Share your derriere and celebrate your own burlesque beauty with a portrait to die for!
The Burlesque Boudoir is available for your events and festivals, your birthdays, hen nights, pre wedding shoots… whatever you choose, let’s go wild!
Prices start from £60 and include props, ohh la la!
Pulse ~ a festival for the heart
8 Sep
I had such a wonderful response to my recent blog about the Secret Garden Party festival I thought I should treat you to some more festival wild things that are we humble humans in full summer bloom in thanks for your kind words!
Pulse Festival grew from a little idea to raise some cash for Southampton’s Children’s Heart Unit as two fathers shared their concerns over their children’s ill health from congenital heart disease. From little acorns come large oaks and this wonderful family festival encompassed all that is good about colourful festival people, the music scene in Hampshire and and our green countryside. Located at Sunnyfield’s Organic Farm there were pigs to pet, organic produce to nosh on and tractor rides to keep the dads … sorry kids happy!
We got to see our lovely friend singer, songwriter and guitarist Lucy Kitchen sing her blend of folky acoustic sounds including the beautiful ‘Blue Eyes’ and a haunting rendition of Lamb’s ’Gabriel’ one of my personal top 10 ten favourite tunes.
Watching the Pulse people go by in their festival finery was a joy as ever and it was a pleasure to see so many happy families, daft dad dancing and painted faces. We didn’t stay for the evening as my daughter was leaving for three months travels the next day but I did round off my fun with a good jump around to Pronghorn.
One of Hampshire’s finest products of cow punk Pronghorn played Glastonbury this year and got this south coast crowd jumping and one little girl deciding it wasn’t quite her cup of tea…she’ll learn!
As day turned to evening a sunny shower freshened up the revellers and brought with it a rainbow. May it be a good portent for all of the families supported at Southampton General Hospital and may this little acorn of a festival grow into a sturdy oak. I believe the cash raised is still being counted but estimates suggest nearly £10,000 will be winging it’s way to the Heart Unit. A brilliant result, a beautiful event, do let’s have another!
Circles in the corn…
2 SepIt is 10 years now that I have been visiting crop circles. Late spring begins, the rape fields flower and the circles start to arrive in the fields of Hampshire, Wiltshire and slowly over the decades they have spread up country, over the channel, the atlantic, the globe. Beautiful circles, beautiful art work, beautiful messages, beautiful questions…
‘Who’ is usually the dominant question when people see the amazing images created in the crop fields but after dancing that dervish for a decade and finding myself down Alice’s rabbit hole I am now much more interested in the ‘Why’ of them. Why? For fun, for mystery, for art, for communication, for connection, to create wonder and amazement in the viewer and for those that read these glyphs a little deeper: a truly mindboggling array of geometric patterns to decipher and understand.
Like cherries on the top of a fine cake, crop circles enhance and add that little bit of magic and mystery to an already luscious ancient landscape filled with monoliths, stone circles, archaeology and wild nature that are the fields of Merry England…and beyond!
This little photo series show a few of the circles, the croppies (the people) and the surrounding areas that I visited this year and the wonderful Barge public house that provides safe haven for relaxed colourful campers on the banks of the Kennet Canal.
“In this green and pleasant land
We have a dream to understand
In the mountains of the mind
There is a spirit you will find…” © Dreadzone
I don’t think Dreadzone were singing of crop circles when they wrote this but my, doesn’t it fit well!
A fellow photographer, who creates superb calendars, Steve Alexander is the lucky one who gets to fly above the circles and capture these wonderful images. Like flying over the Nazca lines ~ it is only in flight that we can see the full picture. Thanks Steve :)
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