It was my friend (Aunty) Adam's birthday last week so we went to the RA Summer Exhibition. It was my first time so I absolutely loved it. My favourite piece was called 'Across the Wadi' by a Guyanan artist called Frank Bowling OBE RA - you sort of already know that those 3 letters after his name will treble or quadruple the number of zero's on his prices...! Needless to say I won't be buying this particular piece at £84,000 but I'm sure it is worth every penny.
Here is a picture of said painting I took from the RA book. It ticks all the boxes for me in terms of colour and texture:
After the RA we wandered down to the Southbank to have some lunch at Giraffe, very kindly paid for by Mr Swaine himself - well, it was his birthday after all...! We both took our cameras along and managed to get some interesting shots. Here are a couple of my favourites taken along the Southbank near the Royal Festival Hall:
These 2 images were part of the 'Love Festival' structure:
Found this Graffiti under the bridge near the London Eye:
I can see my polarising filter is in the wrong position here as the right hand side is slightly darker then the left but hey ho...Love is all you need (apparently...!)...
OK, I know, it's been far too long since I updated my blog. I used to be like this with diaries & journals; get all enthusiastic at the beginning of the year then lose interest. I guess life just takes over! My photography has also taken a bit of a back seat this year for some reason, which is slightly frustrating as it is my favourite thing in the whole world.
I took a couple of shots of "Rachael over the road's" flowers, which have turned out nice.
Astrantia Buckland
Clematis
