MARCH 2020 THIS week's PICTURE

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE and THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, OXFORD : photo by Malcolm Aslett

Above and below are two reworked photos. The one below of the Fitzwilliam Museum can be seen in more broken fashion here: http://joinerphotography.com/Irregulars/1JIFitz2.html

I didn't spend a lot of time redoing them and used the automatic fill in photoshop several times to see what it would come up with and then fiddled a bit more.

The one below includes a view into a shop window across the street from the museum. I liked that. I like that. The inclusion of something ordinary with an impressive frontage that appears an enclosed space versus the open space. This time around I added the inference of being inside the shop and looking out. The one above is curious to me mostly because of that awful collection of cigarette butts to bottom right. Why have such a prestigious building be besmirched by a public display of garbage? Maybe it isn't there anymore. More and more smoking is offensive to people. The bittiness of the busy image is what it has going for it. It is a minor adventure to trail the eye over it and find oddities and dead ends mixed in with the major objects. The Oxford one is cleaner and more straightforward and each of the images benefits from those opposite qualities.

I am also reminded how small I made the images on the pages years ago when computers had such small ram and difficulty loading pictures. I should update and make them all bigger. One day.

 

 

 

 

 

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