The Imperial War Museum at Duxford hosted the Battle of Britain Airshow on Saturday and Sunday 21st/22nd September. On Saturday thousands of people attended. The sky was clear and bright, the weather was hot and the views were really good. The displays of WW1 and WW2 planes were really interesting. See the three photographs. See more photographs from the event on our website. https://www.compassphotography.co.uk/battle-of-britain-airshow-2019/
Mike’s images are on display as part of Rochford Arts Festival. An Art trail has been created around Rochford and there are guided tours to meet the artists. St Mary’s charity shop, 7 North Street, Rochford is where the images are on display for 12 days. St Mary’s run a Horse Sanctuary. If you like looking at art have a wander round the centre of Rochford in the next few days and look at what is on display.
Mike’s display for Rochford Arts Festival
These three images were captured with my phone just after the installation. They are not brilliant picture because of the reflections and the fact I did not want to get run over.
Display at St Mary’s shop
Mike’s images at St Mary’s shop
Mike’s display at St Mary’s shop
A light installation at the launch event
People listening to the mayor
Busy organisers
Launch event
Images are also shown of the launch event last night. Use this link to look at the Arts festival website and follow in on Facebook
See more of our images by visiting our website using this link
It was delightful to see the sunflower, passion flower and spot the birds nest hidden in the undergrowth.
Sunflower with a bee
Out in the garden on a sunny Sunday afternoon the sunflower and the passionfruit flower attracted me. The sunflower is about four feet tall, it should have been higher, but I didn’t encourage it to grow enough. Still, it is a lovely gold colour in the teatime sun.
Passion flower, passion fruit and a birds nest
Over by the fence the passion flowers are still growing and opening up. Behind them is the orange fruit of the plant and just visible is a birds nest too.
Had an interesting assignment last week. The museum at Rayleigh asked me to join them on location at the Rayleigh Council Chamber. Together with the town council, they wanted a record the council chamber and the photographs that it contains. Created 250 images, which will need processing. Here are two of them.
Some people say don’t go to Paris in August! They say this because all of the Parisians have left for their month on the beaches of France. For me, looking round Paris in the warmth of August with less Parisians is an advantage. I captured 595 images in three days and am loading some of them onto our website in four separate galleries.
Two galleries, “Classic Paris” and “Paris off the beaten track” are already there to view. Paris by night and Panoramic Paris are work in Progress. Four images are attached. One image from each gallery. Click here to view straight to the Parisian Galleries
Graffiti at Basin de la Villette
Eiffel Tower from Tour Montparnass
The Quai des Orfèvres
Panoramic Paris from the Basilica of Le Sacré-Cœur
The image selected from the “Off the beaten track” gallery shows some graffiti on a building visible from the basin de la Villette, shot from Quai de la Marne. I actually think it looks like one of our Politicians. Does it remind you of anyone?
The “Classic Paris” gallery shows the image of the Eiffel Tower captured from the top of the Tour Montparnasse. It allows you to view the spans of both the Palais de Chaillot and the Ecole Militaire, with the Eiffel Tower between them. The height of the Tour Montparnasse allows the viewer to appreciate the scale of these monuments.
The Quai des Orfèvres is the image selected from the “Night time Paris” gallery. Captured from the Pont Saint Michel, this is the Quai that featured in the Maigret stories. It is police headquartersin Paris! Nice picture though!
“Paris Panoramas” provides a view of the city from outside the Basilica of Le Sacré-Cœur, one of the highest points in Paris
I used my Sony SLT A65 with the Tamron 16-300 lens to capture these images
The 2020 Essex Landscapes calendar from Compass Photography is now available. Attached to this post is a copy of the front page of the calendar. Below the main image for each month is an appointments matrix . Normally, this matrix would have blank squares. This calendar has placed more images in those blank squares in each month’s appointments grid.
To have a look at the images included in the calendar access the Compass Photography website by using this link. Our website includes a slideshow of the pages.
Calendars cost £7.00 each. Postage and packing within the UK costs £1.50 each. Postage beyond the UK is charged at cost. You can pay by PayPal or bank transfer, cash or cheque (UK only)
Please contact Mike by email (compassmike@btinternet.com) or phone on 07973-294820 to get your copy of the 2020 Essex Landscapes Calendar
Golden sunflowers, purple petunias and flaming red impatiens. Delightful summer gardens. “Little Dorrit” is the variety of the dwarf sunflowers, grown from seed and placed in pots. What is unique with one of the sunflowers is the additional flowers growing through the centre of the head!
Both the petunias and impatiens (busy lizzies) were bought as tiny “plug” plants from a local nursery and grown on in flower pouches. The impatiens have done better than the petunias this year.
That darned cat! Ernie where he
shouldn’t really be sitting, on the newel post half way up the stairs. Setting
up properly for this shot was not an option! The tripod and one or two test
shots would have got it right, however by then you know what would have
happened. That darned cat would have leapt down to the stairs or up to the windowsill!
They say, “Never work with children and animals”.
The only chance I had, when summoned by Gale’s shout of alarm, was to point and shoot three quick bursts and avoid shooting into the light coming through the window. No chance to fiddle with the settings. Maybe it didn’t turn out so bad though. For years I have been wanting to capture one of the cats as they stick their head through the banister. Usually though, by the time I have fetched my camera they have moved.
Ernie is just over a year old
and he thinks he is immortal. He goes up the tree chasing pigeons who nest
there and he brings back and plays with feathers! The painting is, by the way,
all my own work!
Visit our exhibitions at Rayleigh. Mike is currently exhibiting photographs in both the Mill Hall (The Mill Arts and Event Centre Rayleigh) and Rayleigh Windmill. The two venues are next to each other and there is car parking.
The Mill Hall exhibition continues from now until the 16th August 2019. A photograph of the images is shown below, however click here to look at all the images on display on our website. The Mill Hall is open most days and it is possible to view these images at any time.
The Rayleigh Windmill Exhibition continues from now until the 25th August. A photograph of the images is shown below, however click here to look at all the images on display on our website. The Windmill is only open on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The page on our website shows the exact opening dates and times. Click here to link to the Mill Hall and Rayleigh Windmill.
This is the smallest of dwarf sunflowers. This variety of sunflower should grow to three feet high. All of the others from the packet are now that high. The bright yellow flowers are coming out in the garden making a nice show
Accidental small dwarf sunflower
By Accident
I didn’t notice this one when I was potting the rest of them on. So it stayed in the greenhouse in its small pot and has grown even up even smaller. As the flower bloomed I brought it inside and it is sitting happily making a nice contrast with the plum coloured carpet. Next year I think that I will do this again with three or four dwarf sunflowers to have some spectacular colour inside our house! I will try and organise a better pot though!
Have a look at more of our sunflower images from previous years in our garden galleries by using this link.
Our website has many other great images. Go to www.compassphotography.co.uk
Equipment: Sony SLT-A65, Tamron 16-300 lens, f6.3 1/125 ISO 100
