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The August Break

Go Your Own Way: #Reverb10, Day 7

December 9, 2010 Wholeness

#Reverb 10, Day 7: Community. Where have you discovered community in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? (Author: Cali Harris) This has been a year of withdrawing from most of the communities that I used to engage with. I hesitated there, and almost said “belonged [...]

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Winding Down, The August Break, Day 29

August 29, 2010 Photography
Throop-126

The August Break is nearly over–only 2 more days to go. It’s been the most enjoyable group project I’ve been involved in on the web, and it’s been a wonderful learning curve for me. Now, as I start to wind down, I’m looking through all the unused photos sitting in my hard drive, and realizing [...]

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English Skies, and The August Break, Day 28

August 29, 2010 Photography

When I get out into the countryside, I see Englishness all around me now. It was always there, of course. It was always what made me feel at home in this land. And now I know it’s where I want to be. To not be alienated within, and by, the concrete soulless suburbia of towns. [...]

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Nothing else compares… (thoughts on Sally Mann)

August 27, 2010 Photography
Sally Mann, Deep South Series

I saw these pictures on Tuesday, and ever since, I can’t seem to get them out of my mind. By chance, I read about this exhibition, by an American photographer, called Sally Mann, at The Photographers’ Gallery, and I decided to go along. I didn’t really know who she was, but her name stuck in [...]

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London, and The August Break, Day 25

August 25, 2010 Photography
The V&A Skyline

Some polaroids (real, not fake) taken in London yesterday with my first pack of PX 70 Colour Shade Impossible Project film. I’m reasonably pleased with them. I hadn’t read the small print on some website somewhere that said the PX 70 film will underexpose in a Polaroid 600, which is what I’ve got. And when [...]

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