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on January 18, 2024

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Knowing Where to Stand

The great American landscape photographer Ansel Adams once said that a good photograph is knowing where to stand. How true. I've been taking photos for more years than I care to think about really, an interest that started in an art lesson at school. I had an art teacher who taught me the rudiments of composition, perspective and angles, as well as how to look beyond the obvious. Although I have had no formal training in photography, those early lessons have stayed with me and I have always tried to apply them when I have a camera in my hands. And yes, part of the art of photography is exactly as Adams says: knowing where to stand. But then his pallete was immense, being in most cases the national parks of North America. Most of us are somewhat more constrained, especially if like me you enjoy taking photos of the more urban environment, which is not so easy in our increasingly crowded towns and cities. That said, if you take your time to look, and choose your lighting well (which...

Adding a touch of colour

Well here's a piece I have particularly enjoyed making. I had a small piece of tulip wood in my store and just felt a need to do something with it. I had heard that tulip is quite an easy wood to work with and that it takes a finish very well. Right at the outset I was giving a lot of thought to what I wanted the end result to look like, whereas I mostly just go with the flow and see what my internal creative imp wants to make given the constraints of the material I am working with. I decided in advance that it would be interesting to make a piece that embodied a bit of contrast, so one way of doing this would be to create a slightly exaggerated rim which could hold a colour or pattern that might be echoed elsewhere in the bowl. Once I had finished the actual turning and sanding, I gave the bowl a couple of coats of sanding sealer followed by an acrylic matt lacquer. It still looked like a plain bowl! I have a set of Chestnut Products spirit dyes and decided to see if ...

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