2025: Top 10 Painters
This is an update to the “Revised: Top 10 Painters” post that I wrote about this time last year, partly as an accompaniment to “Female British Artist” written at the same time. This might get tweaked slightly but is likely to reflect my views at hour 10,000 of this project (more…)
Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
At hour 9,783, of this 10,000 hour project to master the art of photography, I was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. This is the highest accolade the society has, and as good an acknowledgement of mastery as there is To see the images, and Statement of Intent, on my Flickr site, click…
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Setting Up the Sony a1 – Safari Update
This post is an update to the “Setting Up the Sony a1” post published on 12th August 2023, builds on the experience of using the camera on an almost daily basis since that time, and was prompted by the issues I experienced during an intensive 10 day safari in Botswana and potential improvements in camera…
Progress Milestones by Hour
My favourite image before starting this 10,000 hour project. I think it captures the dynamic nature of Dubrovnik in the early evening, lots of movement and a limited set of colours (due in some way to over-processing) works well. It was/ still is loved my me, but no one else This post cross references the…
Surrealism 100 Years on
Introduction A simple history of Surrealism might state that it was: conceived from the trauma of the 1st World War born (1924) in the depression between the wars developed through the 2nd World War, and died in the relative peace and economic prosperity of the late 1960s … leaving an enduring legacy Above right, Joan…
Winter 2024/ 25
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Autumn 2024
Most of the top images are progressing the “Updating Magritte” project or are creative street photography. This is a departure from previous years where autumn has focused on landscapes To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me…
9,000 Hours – 90% Review
9,000 – touchingly close to the 10,000 hours of deliberate practice theoretically required to master the art of photography – review to date Please post any comments below To Read more click on the link (more…)
Summer 2024
8,758 to 9,017 of 10,000 hours mastering photography through structured deliberate practice To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)
Five Hours at the Pompidou Centre
I am generally a man with a short attention span, half an hour at a gallery or exhibition is generally enough, an hour or more is exceptional. The Pompidou Centre maintained my rapt attention for over 5 hours with only the briefest stops for rehydration (the above image is not my photo) (more…)
“Female British Artist”
On the 15th April of this year Sotheby’s New York sold Leonora Carrington’s 1945 “Les Distractions de Dagobert” for $28.5m setting a new record for a female British artist. However, if we remove the words “female” and “British”, she doesn’t make Wikipedia’s list of the top 89 most expensive paintings. In fact, no women artists…
Revised: Top 10 Painters
This is both a post in its own right (an update to the list I wrote at hour zero of this project) and an accompaniment to the “Female British Artist” post being written at the same time (more…)
Spring 2024
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Tate Modern Review: Yoko Ono
February to 1st September 2024 – Floor 2, Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London, SE1 9TG (more…)
Tate Modern Review: Capturing the Moment
One of the many apocryphal tales of Picasso holds that he conceived cubism following an opium induced dream in which the role of the painter was relentlessly belittled by the unstoppable rise of photography. Certainly, for portraiture and similar images, photography is a cheaper and more convenient means of creating a record. However, the Tate…
Winter 2023/ 24
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Horror Effect – Adding Blood from the Eye in Photoshop
Creating the classic horror effect of blood from the eye in photoshop. Or in the case above perhaps the biblical blood from a stone. (more…)
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Autumn 2023
Seasonal review of 10,000 hours deliberate practice mastering photography Summer 2023. To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)