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Photo Tour Gallery: Still Life on the Run |
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Art from the Ordinary |
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Amateur Photographer weekly
photography
magazine
September, 1982 |
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While
living in Wales I joined the Deudraeth Camera Club at roughly the
same time as one Roland Watkins a former Daily Mirror night editor.
This was in 1978. Then one day Roland threw three Mackerel onto an
ornate plate, pointed a camera at them, and Still Life on the Run
was born.
At the
time I was a school and commercial photographer working in Wales, and classrooms
provided much of my early Still Life on the Run subject matter. This
was especially so in junior and infants schools, i.e. the equivalent
of kindergarten in the United States. Later on I had kids just so
I'd have more colorful subjects around me on a daily basis. ;o)
I frequently presented
multi-mage slide programs with music, words, and dreamy dissolves at
various camera clubs, and Still Life on the Run was added to
the list of subjects. The movie rights are still open for
negotiation by the way. ;o)
On September 25th,
1982, my Still Life on the Run photo essay was published in
London's mighty photo weekly, Amateur Photographer, at left,
and my photography life would never be the same after that.
There aren't any rules for creating
Still Life on the Run images, i.e. Art from the ordinary, but
if there were I'd suggest that color, shape, form, shadow and
symmetry et cetera would be among my guidelines. Generally, day-to-day
man-made inanimate objects are able to meet most of these criteria -
don't forget symmetry in nature too - but the main ingredient is
really yourself and how you see the image. Please note that still
life set-ups such as a fruit bowl and an oil lamp, are not true
Still Life on the Run subjects, though one can 'assist' for a
better effect.
I'm immensely grateful to Roland for
his influence on my photography career and 'seeing eye', and very
pleased that Roland's creative legacy lives on via Still Life on
the Run. I can do no better than suggest it as a theme for one
of your camera club or society's annual competitions.
As you will see with the selection
below - many of which were taken on my photography tours - the
subject matter is far ranging and is purely
Art from the Ordinary. |
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Chains at St. Just harbour, Cornwall, England. |
Colored paper clips. |
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Door handle, England. |
Red clogs, Murren, Switzerland |
Door details, Provence, France. |
Ladder and green door, Murren, Switzerland |
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Knitted sandals for sale, San Telmo market, Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Shuttered window, Brittany, France. |
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A straight shot of colored buttons, Boise, Idaho |
Then some deliberate blur, i.e. zooming, induces this spectacle. |
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Red and blue, Cinque Terre, Italy |
Boots in a row, Wengen, Switzerland.
Colorful Ecuadorian fabrics. |
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Ski fence, and Hydrant. Glacier, Mt. Baker National Forest, Washington. |
Colorful washing and clothes pegs, Cinque Terre, Italy. |
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Empty bottles. Bodie, California. |
Adirondack chairs, Jasper, Alberta, Canada. |
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Leaf in captivity, Zoo Boise, Boise, Idaho. |
Raindrops on a freshly painted red bench, Switzerland. |
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Umbrellas in a stand, Cinque Terre, Italy |
Mail boxes in Madrid, New Mexico. |
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A 'Do it yourself' post box in Kilcar,
County Donegal, Ireland. |
Umbrellas, Cinque Terre, Italy. |
Red door, County Donegal, Ireland. |
Doorbell, Cinque Terre, Italy |
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Reflection of flags in a lake, St. Moritz, Switzerland. |
Produce for sale in an Ecuadorian market. |
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Potpourri of pots. Burgundy, France. |
An Irish farmer's sheep marking apparatus, i.e. two brushes and paint.
How else do you get red or blue wool sweaters then?
Shot in County Kerry, Ireland. |
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Pennan, Scotland. |
Padlock and chain, County Kerry, Ireland. |
Polperro Harbour, England. |
Rust in captivity. England. |
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Clothes pegs, Cinque Terre, Italy. |
Kid's colored blocks, Boise, Idaho. |
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Step symmetry, Murren, Switzerland. |
Farm gate padlock, Wales, UK. |
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Fire buckets on Pickering Station, North Yorkshire, England. |
Fire buckets, Vale of Rheidol Railway, Wales |
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Flower stall, Paris, France. |
Art gallery umbrella stand, Yangon, Myanmar [Burma] |
Wrangler's rope. Ennis, Montana. |
Attached to a Smithy's barn door, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
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Watering cans morph into flower pots, England. |
Palm symmetry. The Everglades, Florida. |
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Harbour ropes, Iceland. |
A boat moored in Newcastle harbour, County Down, Northern Ireland. |
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String instrument maker's window Loire Valley, France. |
Pennan, Scotland. |
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Amateur Photographer weekly
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September, 1982 |
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on the Run: The Straw Section
At right is a shot I set up at home with straws purchased specifically for the shot.
Below are the original 'granddaddies' shot in a Welsh school in the early 1980's. One of the set made it into the 'School Days' gallery in
*Amateur Photographer.
* Please see the
Still Life on the Run introduction at the top
of the page |
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Ranch, Ennis, Montana. |
Grains, Ecuador market. |
Rusty padlock, Garn Dolbenmaen, Wales |
Navajo art, Monument Valley, Arizona. |
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Paint brushes, Boise, Idaho. |
Aspen leaf falls on the oats, The Palouse, Idaho. |
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Colored pencils, San Telmo Market, Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Bubbles in a glass, Boise, Idaho. |
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Marbles in a box. Virginia City, Montana. |
Jetty boat ring. Isle of Iona, Scotland. |
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Color in El Caminito, La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Shuttered window, Provence, France. |
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Color harmony, Sargans, Switzerland. |
'Paint pots', Burgundy, France. |
Heron and
shadow, Florida. |
Rustic door, Provence, France. |
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Car park, Mont San Michel, Normandy, France. |
Lemons in a basket, Corniglia, Cinque Terre, Italy |
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Wool, Amarapura,
Myanmar [Burma] |
Wool, County Donegal, Ireland |
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Colored chalk in boxes, Wales. |
Rustic art in a castle grounds, Loire valley, France. |
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Washing drying in Austria. |
Geraniums in unison, Loire Valley, France. |
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Red roof, Tuscany, Italy |
Signage, County
Clare, Ireland. |
Colorful cart, England. |
Cowboy boots, Wyoming. |
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Church windows, Switzerland |
Wood pile, Switzerland. When stacking wood a box was placed in the middle of the stack,
and a plant inside that.
A very nice idea indeed. |
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Objet d'art, Burgundy, France |
Switzerland once more. I believe these posts are used in the winter to mark the edges
of the sidewalk/path/road in the village. |
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Colored pots. Burgundy, France. |
Plates displayed in an Ecuadorian market. |
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Frost on brushes, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |
Buoys, Tasmania, Australia. |
Building blocks, Boise, Idaho. |
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