209 - Sunset Seat

209 - Sunset Seat, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Sometimes I believe I use too much color, so today I decided to cut back on my screen filling color. Less can be harder though, you have to take more care with where things join.

When we take pictures it is too easy to become so enamored with the subject we forger to notice the distracting details in the background. Which is rather like life - it can be so easy to pay attention to the person we think is important than we forget that other, less strident people are alos important.

Zuk Burnout

Zuk Burnout, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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OK, here is the second Zuk van shot I have been working on. Since starting work on this image I have seen a picture on the net showing a Zuk with a V8 engine doing a burnout :)

I have actually shortened the van, when my wife saw the original van I could not turn my head far enough to see it clearly, the edge of my glasses distorting my view, shortening the van. So I thought, why not use that idea. The burnout is an idea from one of my nieces, who keeps posting pictures of drifters on Facebook. Finally, the shop background is the soon-to-be-demolished former restaurant in the village of Puchaczow. It is from the late 1960s, early 1970s, pure communism, surviving for as long as it did more on alcohol sales than food from what I could see.

By Trevor Butcher

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Travels in a Suitcase

Travels in a Suitcase, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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059: Half Dressed Tuesdays.

The suitcase exists to help take us on our travels, but for most of the time it simply gathers dust and stores things that we probably do not really need. I like to relive past journeys and plan new ones, and what better companion on these memories and dream trips!

Oh, and half dressed? Don't you remember the sixties series "Man in a Suitcase"? Perhaps not :)

171 - Black Mirror

171 - Black Mirror, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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I see that many people don't enjoy themselves enough in the changing rooms while shopping. Somewhere between dressing up as a child and choosing clothes as an adult, something is often lost.

Zuk and the City

Zuk and the City, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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Here is a later Zuk (note the double slot above the headlamp), set against a tower block - both the van and the block should be instantly recognizable to any Pole ;)

I spent about a week working on this one, from a small picture I took with my Samsung phone camera. It has been a while since I have done any Zuk images, and I have several ideas that I want to work on using them.

by Trevor Butcher

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Red Necklace

Red Necklace, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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A woman wearing a red necklace made of very large beads, an artistic image that becomes abstract on close inspection.

This is the third, and quickest to make, in my new series of half portraits, intended to focus not on the face but on what is being worn around the neck. I have found a way of using my camera to do some of the hard work, the rest is down to my steady hand on the mouse :)

by Trevor Butcher

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Orange Tie

Orange Tie, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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This is the first in a small series of portraits without heads, letting you fill n the missing bits with your imagination while I show the part I would like you to see.
There is a very seductive temptation to treat your audience as rather delinquent children, who need all information supplied before they can understand what you are showing. In my experience that more often leads to the situation where the audience switches off or they don't learn what you wanted to show but all the supporting information instead.
On the other hand I know that some people won't understand what I am trying to show, the gap between what I and they know is simply to great to be spanned by anything I might write here. Neither of us can help that. But at least this is here if they choose to try.

by Trevor Butcher

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Rusty Train

Rusty Train, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

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If you look at the rails, you can see that this is on a narrow gauge railway. In a country that values knowledge primarily in their education system, people end up not feeling confident that they can take part in activities outside their skill training. So things fall apart, and it is blamed on a lack of money. Sound familiar?

by Trevor Butcher