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arts, personal, photography

Weekly Photograph

This week I’m going to cheat a bit for my weekly photograph. What I give you is a scan of one of my mother’s watercolours: one painted during the war when she was Warden of Leatherhead YHA. It’s interesting to compare this with her later work, as shown in my earlier post about Dora’s funeral, and see how her technique and style changed over the years.

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Dora Marshall, Bedroom Window, YHA Leatherhead (The Old Rising Sun)
Watercolour, 30×22.5cm, ca. 1944
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Painting © Dora Marshall, 1944

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Weekly Photograph

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Our house is currently awash with orchids in bloom, and in fact many have been in bloom for several weeks. This week’s photograph is of a gorgeous creamy-yellow Dendrobium which is on my study windowsill. While I never seem to be able to get the wonderful display of blooms the plants have when you buy them (well they won’t be getting optimum light, water etc.) orchids are not that hard to get back into flower — so if you have one, don’t throw it out when it finishes flowering.

Dendrobium
Dendrobium
Greenford; June 2015
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natural history, photography

Weekly Photograph

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This week’s photograph is a wild flower, Red Campion, which was growing in the woodland burial site where we interred my mother last week. It is just a small taste of how delightful a place this is.

Red Campion
Red Campion
Colney, Norwich; June 2015
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Weekly Photograph

This week’s photograph is a view which it isn’t so easy to get: the spire of Norwich cathedral from the SW. It was taken from the back window of my mother’s solicitors reception area. What a stunning view to have out of your office window!

Norwich Cathedral
Norwich Cathedral
May 2015
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natural history, photography

Weekly Photograph

Noreen found these two feathers in the garden yesterday afternoon. They are from a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. The top one, a secondary wing feather, is about 8.5cm in total length. The lower is a primary feather. Note the feathers come from different wings, as they curve in opposite directions.

GSW Feather
GSW Feather
Greenford, June 2015
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arts, history, photography

Weekly Photograph

This week’s photograph is one I took on Saturday. It shows the commemorative plaque to General Sikorski who was leader of the exiled Polish forces in WWII. The plaque is on the (astonishingly expensive) Rubens Hotel, right opposite the entrance to Buckingham Palace Mews, which was the Polish forces GHQ for most of the War. This is not just a piece of history for it will resonate with Anthony Powell fans. Powell spent most of his war years as Military Intelligence (Liaison) and for much of that time was the officer responsible for liason with the Polish Allies — so he would have known the Rubens Hotel well.

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Rubens Hotel, Polish Plaque
London, 2 May 2015

I’m sorry the image isn’t brilliant, but the hotel’s display board is at comfortable reading height, so the plaque is a couple of feet above my head height and I’ve had to correct the verticals in the image.

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Weekly Photograph

This week’s photograph was taken as an experiment. Yes, it really is the sun partially obscured by cloud. I took it when I was playing around testing out exposure settings on my small camera so I could photograph the partial solar eclipse of 20 March 2015. (As it turned out there was no chance of seeing the eclipse due to cloud.) This is the best of several shots, taken at varying exposures, I wanted to see how it really would stand up as an actual image. Experimental, but I think quite interesting.

Cloudy Sun
Cloudy Sun
Greenford; March 2015
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amusements, people, photography

Weekly Photograph

So there I was in Uxbridge a few weeks ago, sitting waiting people watching while for Noreen to emerge from M&S, when these three beauties happened along. They seemed to be about to enact Act 1, Scene 1 of Macbeth.

Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1 in Modern Dress
Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1 in Modern Dress
Uxbridge, March 2015
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