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Desaturated Circles

April 18, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

First coffee in hand, looking out at the 7 am mist, I noticed the trillium was bejewelled by droplets. Bescented and bejewelled, suffused and saturated.

Saturated, a word that rang a bell. A theme with seven photos posted this week two years ago, amidst a personal iPhoneography challenge to hone my skills and learn to minimise compositional distractions. In this case, a series of desaturated pictures offered up in daily posts on Instagram.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: christine dwyer hickey, city of books, desaturate, dublin one city one book, instagram, iphoneography, martina devlin, photography, photos, trillium, what3words

Wabi Sabi Challenge

April 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I gave myself a simple photo challenge. I was to sit for one hour facing out to the garden and take photographs. I could use my Canon DSLR and the 70-200 lens with the 2X extender. And at the end of an hour, I had to post my favourite six. For the technical folk who might read this, I decided it had to be handheld too; no tripods. And I’d be indoors, behind a newly double glazed ‘French’ window. All photos to be taken from a seat in our living room.

We have very purposefully built up our front garden over many years. There’s about 100 square metres at the front and we converted it all into a rockery about 15 years ago. We got a lot of criticism from passers-by for returning granite boulders to a garden where they recalled a lot of granite had been blasted, broken and cleared to make way for our house. Our garden rises up quite steeply from about a metre beyond the window, running up ten metres to a road. This has a southerly aspect that has reduced direct sunlight because we are in the shadow of Roche’s Hill and surrounded by many ornamental but mature trees. So we selected plants as a botanical screen against views from the road, which is level with our first floor. And we selected plants that could survive with the benefit of indirect light reflected from the windows and white walls.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: challenge, gardening, photography, photos, plants, trillium, wabi sabi

Giants, Elders and Bosons

April 14, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

How many people know about The Elders? Not science fiction, they are a non-governmental organisation of global thought leaders. Oddly enough, I’ve met a couple of them. We spoke in social pleasantries rather than of their vision which ‘is of a world where people live in peace, conscious of their common humanity and their shared responsibilities for each other, for the planet and for future generations’. Our meeting was the day Lia was being conferred with an honorary doctorate by Dublin University. As her plus one, I was able to enjoy a meal among the honourees, their plus ones and the university principals. And in my own alma mater, something neither my adult imagination let alone my student version was ever capable of imagining.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: aspiration, ephemera, geophysics, higgs boson, large hadron collider, lia mills, nobel prize, photos, the elders, trillium, university

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