Monday 18 April 2016

Call Green For Samaritans (10)



For the last few months I've carried out an experiment looking at a fresh image each day, the thread connecting them all is that Red predominates.
Not Red in this case

Public telephone boxes in the UK are normally red but the Samaritan boxes   that commemorated 60 years of the service subvert the normal and offer an idea away from the intensity associated with Red.

[you can see the Canon version  'high res' copy of  a picture of the boxes - strangely red below].
And in red






I try and Twitter (#tjbourne) a photo' every day by far the picture that's had the most impressions is this one (over two and a half thousand).


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A Summer's Evening Drink (9)


The first week of the City Lit Photo' Walking group and there's a nice bit of greenery near Temple station - it was actually quite brown when we there.

A drink in the sun

















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The West Ealing Tamil Festival (8)


Although many people describe London as being made up of many villages it can also be described as being different villages and towns on different days.
W13 Sri Lanka

Once a year West Ealing hosts a Tamil Festival (August 9th last year) and if the weather's right it's a more exotic Ealing than we normally see.

Below you can see a guy working on the Temple in Chapel Road nearby ahead of the festival.



A former church now a temple





You can see more pictures from previous years' celebrations here.

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The Painterly Chiswick House (7)


Another picture I took during the City Lit Photo' walks course this summer was one of Chiswick House, strangely although I've lived in West London for more than half my life and I worked in Chiswick for about three and a half years this was my first visit there.


Although incongruous the plane does not jar 

Famed as a location that was used for shooting Beatles Promo's it's a charming location and the late afternoon/early evening  provided a warm light, giving it I think a painterly quality but it doesn't detract too much that there's an aeroplane that flies above.

This unusually was a 'shoot' where I used a tripod.

Being in a group of people taking photographs does in a way put some pressure on you - loads of pictures were taken (poor old Kodak) - here's one I took finding the right place.
Where should I put that tripod?



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Ealing's Polish Palace (6)

Every year Open City an architectural initiative co-ordinates a weekend  for the public to visit buildings of interest.
A little boy who kept his promise

The story behind one of the buildings open to visitors in 2015 was like a fairy story- a little boy promised his Grandmother that he'd build her palace and years later on a quiet suburban road in Ealing he created a mini-Versailles as he said he would.

Sadly the boy's grandmother had died but the pleasure of such a folly in 21st Century London can't help but make you smile.

It's full of features











You can find out more about the house here.

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Best Friends Forever (5)



All the world ahead of them
During the summer I joined an evening course as part of group of Photographers through City Lit.

Each week we'd walk and take pictures it was a chance to see various parts of London out by the East London location used for the track and field events of the 2012 Olympics as the sun was low in the sky I caught this moment.


I suppose we all imagine narratives for people we'll most likely not see again - but this feels like a friendship that those involved think will last pretty much forever - and who knows perhaps this one will?

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The Cinema Comes to Town (3)


At the risk of being too local here's another picture of Ealing Green but this one features the traveling  cinema we had with us during the summer of 2015.

The Photograph was published in the Ealing Gazette last summer.
Published
The photo' has big blocks of bright colour and gives the impression that it could have come from any time in the last 75 or so years.

Surprisingly large it offered a cinema experience with an almost Art film mentality - one of the things that's gone wrong in Civic Ealing is the loss of the cinema - if you ask people what Ealing means to them Cinema comes high in the list of associations - when I moved here in the late 70's there were three cinemas now none.

It's been another story with the studios that have continued to generate business for the borough and let's hope the situation gets sorted before too long.

The Cinema as a topic has featured in other pictures I have taken and one of these  was used in a front page story by the Gazette.

Surprisingly provided a Picture house experience


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Northfields Fish (2)

Another published picture shows a quirky piece of local marketing



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Avenue Antiques (4)


A news picture of West Ealing's The Avenue

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Kew The Gardener (1)

I suppose one of the things that for me sums up a good picture is a certain sort of timelessness - but  this doesn't necessarily preclude something that looks bang-up to date.

A smaller framed version of the picture

This picture showing a gardener at Kew Gardens doesn't say 2015 if you look you'll see the detail the camera has captured - the water drops  frozen by the short exposure time.



Looking at this I'm reminded how photography has revealed detail previously unseen- with pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge details of animal motion were  revealed and in this photo' you can see individual water drops.


Taking photographs out in public there's a dilemma to resolve (often) about having people in the shot - I've shown another picture taken the same day - it feels more ordinary and a person opens up our musing to a whole new narrative.
Also taken on 27th February 2015


For a while I did consider printing this picture in monochrome but I liked the muted tones and the near silhouette that materialised without too much computer fiddling.



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Ealing BEAT in Bond Street

Photographs also available for show Bond Street Pop-up :

1) Kew The Gardener  £59


2) Northfield Fish            £59


3) The Cinema Comes to Town          £59


4) Avenue Antiques                            £59


5) Best Friends Forever                      £86


6) Ealing's very own Polish Palace    £59


7) A Painterly Chiswick House        £118


8) Tamil Festival West Ealing Style £59


9) A Summer's Evening Drink         £59


10) Call Green For Samaritans           £59