London M.A. Uni trip 5.11.2013 (Pt 2)

As I am fascinated with  old phone boxes, I was pleased to find this one especially as it was painted black and not the traditional red. In this image I tried to Incorporate the red of the buses in the background.

The cast iron piece of artwork shown above, I thought  the pattern inside  looked like hidden letters.This was in was  in the Portrait Gallery.

This great building was just opposite the tube station

I was disappointed that I couldn't capture this image closer as I liked the interaction between what seemed to be Granddad and grandchild.

I was drawn to the architecture style of this building and wanted to capture the scale and grandness of it. 

 At first glance I had thought that on the left and right of the window were decoration of dogs (greyhounds) that had their necks stretched with head and noses pointed to the sky.

The trip wouldn't have been completed if I had missed taking these images of what appeared to me as 1900's chimneys.

London M.A. Uni trip 5.11.2013 (pt 1)

The Portrait Gallery, London

http://www.npg.org.uk/

This was the first place I went to their were many Exhibitions but not all was available to photograph. 

By Alessandro Raho

I like this image because it shows Dame Judi Dench as a "down to Earth" character  and it is how I imagine her to be in real life! I have never met her but I have seen her acting in many roles where she has always played the straight comedienne delivering the laughter lines. The image above seems to highlight this ability of hers to be both ordinary and charismatic at the same time. I like the way that he has taken her into the studio and taken her out of the actor's comfort zone of having props to help her create a character. She is standing in a quite open stance but possibly a softened pose with one leg behind the other - if she had been standing with both legs equally distant from the painter she might have appeared totally different! Possibly a little uncomfortable? Her clothes are quite casual compared with some of the stage costumes she has worn - such as when she was M in 007 and Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown. To me she is being shown in a plain, realistic interpretation of how she actually is - possibly Judy "in the raw"?

Norman Foster 

By John Davies 

Michael G. Wilson on Sky fall movie set

By Anderson & Low

David Stephan Mach 

By Iain Clark

Stephen Conroy

Self portrait

Camila Batmanghelidjh

By Dean Marsh 

Jonathan Yea Portraits

Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke 

By Carlo Pellegrini

The Lobby of the house of commons,1886

By Liberio Prosperi

Albert Ball

By Henry Poole

French Master Chefs In the 1930s

stars with Vivien Leigh 

Emmeline Pankhurst 

By Georgina Brackenbury

Statue of the Amitabha Budha

These busts were in the gift shop I particually liked the Charles Dickens and Brunele

The British Museum 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/

'Rama with the axe'

18th 19th century AD

Seated Buddha 

From late 5th centuary

Rearing horse and warrior

17th century AD 

Glyndwr "Light Show at Wrexham Museum 19.12.2013

I hadn't realised until further research that this event was in conjunction with  Glyndwr and was organised by students collaborating with Wrexham Museum. I was looking forward to viewing this event as the evening was covering visual history about the surrounding areas such as Brymbo and Wrexham Lager.   

The way in which the visuals were introduced onto the front of the building, showed that it had been well thought out. This was apparent by how we were first introduced to the opening scene. The words "Wrexham Museum" came together very slowly with each letter of the alphabet forming the word.  

I  liked the colour visuals of the map of Wales which had the Welsh dragon incorporated onto it. This had made me feel very patriotic.

I normally get motion sickness with images moving but was delighted at the way the images were slowly introduced as the view of the image above spun around.

The show was a well thought out and used new visual  technology to bring the past and the present together. It had a short narration accompanied with historical facts that explained how they shaped the Wrexham of today.

There was even the nice finishing touch - wishing everyone a "Happy Christmas"!

The link below shows a short film with the students at work on the show

http://bignightoflight.info/